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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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