Stephanie,
The Portal to Texas History at UNT is a great project and is certainly ONE way to get material out to the public, but it is by no means the ONLY way. There are several other collaborative projects in the state, mostly led by public universities (notably Stephen F. Austin State University and Texas A&M Commerce; there are also projects in Houston and Abilene, among others). In the CTLS area, many libraries and museums have contributed materials to the Portal, but other libraries, such as Georgetown and Austin, have put collections online themselves. I would be more than happy to meet with anyone who is interested either in partnership opportunities or in developing their own systems and resources. My ulterior motive is to add more content to our Texas Heritage Online search tool (http://www.texasheritageonline.org), which I'm happy to say is working again. There are many different ways to add metadata to this tool, which works like Google, sending visitors back to your site to view the resource details. Speaking for TSLAC, our grants don't actually require that the institution have copyright to the materials it wants to put online. We do ask that institutions be aware of the copyright status of materials they want to digitize and that they do the necessary work to minimize the risk that a copyright owner might come to ask that the material be taken down. From that point, the grant reviewers may decide that the risks are acceptable or not in terms of funding the application - we get many, many more applications than we can fund, unfortunately! We developed a substantial component on legal issues for the class we've been offering under our current training grant, "Digital Project Planning and Management Basics," which will be offered in an online form next year by Amigos Library Services. See our Train to Share grant page for more information (http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/lrs/projects/trainshare-grant/index.html). If libraries want a more specific class on obtaining permissions for digitization, or even a class on digitization basics (which is not included in the training grant), just let me know and I'll see what we can do. Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator Texas Heritage Online Texas State Library and Archives Commission 512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax) [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Langenkamp, Stephanie Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:14 AM To: Laurie Mahaffey; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ctls-l] FW: [syscon-tx] Grant Opportunity - Texas CulturesOnline Laurie and others- I have looked into these UNT grants a little bit and wonder about a couple things: 1) Will "The Portal to Texas History" that UNT is creating, become the way that people will access these materials in the future for the whole state or are there other competing portals that are being launched by the state library or other large universities? (ie: does the UNT project have a special status within the state in relation to digitized Texas history collections?) 2) Most of these digitizing grants seem to require that the libraries obtain the copyrights to the materials in their collections. We have no idea how to do that, nor resources to do that. We have a wonderful hodge-podge of newspaper clippings, postcards, old photographs, miscellaneous brochures, etc. How could we ever claim ownership of the copyrights on a collection like this? Thanks, Stephanie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurie Mahaffey Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ctls-l] FW: [syscon-tx] Grant Opportunity - Texas Cultures Online -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danielle Plumer Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 4:24 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [syscon-tx] Grant Opportunity - Texas Cultures Online Grant Opportunity: Texas Cultures Online The University of North Texas Libraries is pleased to announce Texas Cultures Online, a project funded by the Amon Carter Foundation. In response to educators' expressed need for multimedia materials that support teaching about the many cultures of Texas, UNT seeks to digitize cultural heritage collections that represent the state's vast ethnic diversity. UNT is offering mini-grants, ranging from $500 - $20,000, to digitize collections of cultural significance and add them to The Portal to Texas History. The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu/, is a digital gateway to over 100,000 historical documents, photographs, and publications belonging to partner institutions throughout Texas. Easy to search and explore, the Portal is a valuable resource for educators, students, and the public at large. To view the application, please visit http://www.library.unt.edu/digitalprojects/for-our-partners/portal-partn ers/texas-cultures-online. Applications are due September 15, 2010. ________ _______________________________________ syscon-tx mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe to this list please visit the following url http://lists.tsl.state.tx.us/mailman/listinfo/syscon-tx ________________________________ San Marcos, TX ...Business Week Top 10 Places to Raise kids in the U.S
