-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danielle Plumer Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [syscon-tx] Call for Proposals: THDI "Train to Share" ProjectParticipants
TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION Train to Share: Interoperability Training for Cultural Heritage Institutions Call for Proposals: Project Participants The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), working with the University of North Texas Libraries, Amigos Library Services, and a variety of additional partners and participants, has been awarded an IMLS grant for "Train to Share," a project of the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative (THDI). In this three-year project, THDI will address the need, identified nationally but equally evident at the local level, for quality sharable metadata, metadata produced within specific traditions of practice that can nonetheless be shared seamlessly across communities to provide a rich experience for digital library users. The "Train to Share" project will include three phases. 1. In the first phase, outreach and observation, separate traditions of practice from libraries, archives, and museums will be identified and specific tools, jargon, and behaviors will be assessed for consistency and compatibility. 2. In the second phase, education, trainers will adapt the "Digital Library Environment" workshop series from the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/index.html) to incorporate the needs and traditions identified in phase 1. Regional cross-cultural teams will be trained using the adapted workshop series, which will involve five two-day workshops offered at each of at least five locations across the state. 3. In the final phase, production, a total of ten digital products will be developed by these regional cross-cultural teams, each including museum, library, and archives professionals working collaboratively. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission invites proposals from collaborative teams representing multiple institutions interested in participating in Train to Share. Each proposal must address the following: * Team composition - Teams will include at least one academic, special, school, or public library - Teams will include at least one museum - Teams will include at least one additional institution, including state and/or local government agencies, archives, historical and/or genealogical societies, library systems, and corporations. There is no restriction on the maximum number of additional institutions. - One team will be selected from each of 10 regions across the state. Regions will reflect the current boundaries of the ten regional library systems (http://www.texshare.edu/memberinfo/libcats/map/libregions.html). - Preference will be given to teams with members from institutions that do not have existing digitization programs or a history of producing metadata for digital objects. * Team Responsibilities - Each team will send at least two representatives to each of the five two-day workshops in the "Train to Share" workshop series. Members receiving training must be professional employees of participating institutions and should work in the area of metadata production (e.g., library cataloger, museum curator/registrar, etc.). The workshops will be held at multiple locations around the state over a two-year period to minimize travel requirements. The same two individuals do not need to attend every workshop. - Each team will develop at least one collaborative digital project during the three-year period of the grant. The project should be thematic in nature, include materials from the collections of each partner institution, and include at least 1,000 digital objects with full metadata for each by the end of the grant period. Of particular interest are projects that focus on ethnic and regional diversity. Development of bilingual materials and resources that are accessible to people with disabilities will also be a priority. - Teams will be responsible for providing cost share of $3,000 per year, primarily in the form of staff time. Additional matching funds will not be required but preference may be given to teams with evidence of strong institutional support in the form of matching funds applied to workshop registrations, digitization equipment and/or outsourcing, and digital asset management systems. - Teams will present information about their digital projects at annual THDI regional meetings and/or at national meetings when appropriate. - Teams will complete bi-annual reports on all grant-related activity in accordance with IMLS guidelines. * TSLAC Responsibilities - TSLAC will pay full travel and training registration costs for up to two members from each team; additional members may attend at reduced registration rates. - TSLAC will provide a stipend of up to $3,000 per year per project to support development of the project. Funds may be used for staff release time (to allow the hiring or training of additional staff to assume responsibility for other projects), for needed equipment and supplies, for outsourcing of digitization, and/or for payment of fees for hosting or providing access to digital projects through standards-compliant digital asset management systems. Please contact Danielle Cunniff Plumer (contact below) with any questions. Submit proposal by January 1, 2009, to: Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative Texas State Library and Archives Commission PO Box 12927 Austin, TX 78711-2927 512.463.5852 (phone) 512.936.2306 (fax) [email protected] _______________________________________________ syscon-tx mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tsl.state.tx.us/mailman/listinfo/syscon-tx
