Four day course 2006

UNESCO IITE Specialized Training Programme Digital Libraries in Education (Training Session in Bangkok, Thailand, 21 – 24 February 2006) The content of this course is similar to the 2005 Fiji course, although the material was presented in a slightly different order.

Introduction

 * 8:00 – 8:30	Registration of participants
 * 8:30 – 8:45	Welcome speeches from UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education and UNESCO IITE
 * Mr. Sheldon Shaeffer Director, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
 * Mr. Clive Wing, Chief of Information and Knowledge Management, UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
 * Mr. Azat Khannanov Deputy Team Leader for the UNESCO CCT project “Methodologies for Digital Libraries”, UNESCO IITE


 * 8:45 – 9:00 Presentation of UNESCO Cross-Cutting Project “Methodologies for Digital Libraries”
 * Mr. Azat Khannanov Deputy Team Leader for the UNESCO CCT project “Methodologies for Digital Libraries”, UNESCO IITE


 * 9:00 – 9:15 About UNESCO IITE’s Specialized Training Programme: introduction and general logistics
 * Dr. Marina Moiseeva Coordinator of UNESCO IITE’s Educational Programme


 * 9:15 – 9:30	Meet the trainers: University of Waikato and Greenstone International Initiative
 * Dr. David Bainbridge Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato
 * Dr David M. Nichols Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato

Module 1: The Concept of Digital Libraries

 * 9:30 – 10:15	Introduction to the course
 * 10:15 – 10:30	Coffee-break
 * 10:30 – 11:15	Installation & Exploration of Existing Collections
 * 11:15 – 11:45	Case Studies: DLESE & NLVM, presentation
 * 11:45 – 12:00	Unit 1.1: Assignment 1: discussion
 * 12:00 – 13:00	Lunch

Module 2: Document Representation

 * 13:00 – 13:30	Summary of Common Document Formats: presentation
 * 13:30 – 14:30	Installation of Greenstone, building simple HTML collection
 * 14:30 – 15:00	Unit 2.1: Assignment 1: discussion
 * 15:00 – 15:15	Coffee-break
 * 15:15 – 15:45	Overview of the Librarian Interface
 * 15:45 – 17:00	Building Word & PDF Collection

Module 3: Working with Metadata

 * 8:00 – 8:30	Markup & Metadata: presentation
 * 8:30: – 9:30	Building Tudor Collection
 * 9:30 – 10:0	Unit 3.1: Assignment 1: Organization and Access Mechanisms: discussion
 * 10:00 – 10:15	Coffee-break
 * 10:15 – 10:45	Export to CD-ROM, Web links, Downloading source material
 * 10:45 – 11:45	Enhancing the Tudor Collection
 * 11:45 – 12:00	The Reality of the Web: Google survey results presentation
 * 12:00 – 13:00	Lunch

Module 3 – continued

 * 13:00 – 13:30	Image Formats: discussion.
 * 13:30 – 14:00	Image Collection
 * 14:00 – 14:30	MARC: presentation
 * 14:30 – 15:00	Bibliographic Collection: MARC
 * 15:00 – 15:15	Coffee-break
 * 15:15 – 15:45	Format statements and macro files: a walk through
 * 15:45 – 16:15	LOM & SCORM: presentation and demonstration
 * 16:15 – 17:00	Educational Metadata: LOM and SCORM

Module 4: Multimedia Digital Libraries

 * 8:00 – 8:30	Video Formats: presentation. Hauraki Video Collection demonstration
 * 8:30 – 9:30	Advanced Beatles: “Look at what can be done!”, A Basic Collection
 * 9:30 – 10:00	Unit 4.1: Assignment 1: Multimedia in Education: discussion
 * 10:00 – 10:15	Coffee-break
 * 10:15 – 11:15	Advanced Beatles: Hand correcting metadata Simple Customization
 * 11:15 – 12:00	Advanced Beatles: Advanced Customization Expert Customization Fancy Customization
 * 12:00 – 13:00	Lunch

Module 5: Open Standards & Case Studies

 * 13:00 – 13:45	Open Standards & Interoperability: MODS and METS, presentation
 * 13:45 – 15:00	Exporting as METS; From DSpace to Greenstone; From Greenstone to DSpace
 * 15:00 – 15:15	Coffee-break
 * 15:15 – 15:45	Open Archives Initiative: presentation
 * 15:45 – 17:00	OAI Collection; Download OAI. Scanned Image Collection. Niupepa Collection: demonstration. Improved Image Collection

Day 4 (Friday February, 24th)

 * 8:00 – 8:30	Case Studies: MERLOT & Doomsday, presentation
 * 8:30 – 10:00	Personal Collections
 * 10:00 – 10:15	Coffee-break
 * 10:15 – 11:15	Personal Collections
 * 11:15 – 11:45	Summary: presentation
 * 11:45 – 12:45	Lunch
 * 12:45 – 14:00	Training on using UNESCO IITE’s Distance Education Platform
 * 14:00 – 14:30	Objectives and plans for follow-up distance learning session
 * 14:30 – 15:00	Closing discussion