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# Four day course 2006

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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.

## Day 1 (Tuesday February, 21st)

### 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

## Day 2 (Wednesday February, 22nd)

### 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

## Day 3 (Thursday February, 23rd)

### 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

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