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Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series

OCLC Research, on behalf of the RLG Partnership and under the management of Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant, has launched a series of webinars to teach library staff new technology skills and educate them about new products to help increase their productivity in today's changing library, archive and museum environment. The goal of these webinars is to highlight specific innovative applications, often locally developed, that libraries, museums and archives may find effective in their own environments, as well as to teach technical staff new technologies and skills. The series, titled Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI), has two tracks:

  • Instructional Track:
    The instructional track will provide a practical, efficient overview of key details for technical staff so they can get up to speed on new technologies. Webinars in this track will focus on topics such as OCLC Web Services APIs, Solr indexing platform, XSLT, XPath and XQuery, Java, Javascript and the Google Books API.
  • Product Demo Track:
    The product demo track will provide overviews and demonstrations of new and useful products for staff at cultural heritage institutions who are interested in increasing their general product understanding as well as in making informed purchase and use decisions. Webinars in this track will include products such as Library à la Carte and Backlight.
Participation is free and open to all but advanced registration is required. These webinars will be recorded and made available on the OCLC Research Web site and in the iTunes Store.

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Date Speaker Title
8 December 2009

Sheila Brennan,
Omeka End User Outreach Coordinator
Center for History and New Media

Dave Lester,
Omeka Developer Outreach Coordinator and Developer,
Center for History and New Media

Omeka

Omeka is a free and open source collections-based, Web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators and cultural enthusiasts. Its "five-minute setup" makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Designed with non-IT specialists in mind, Omeka allows users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural Web sites to foster user interaction and participation. It also makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Omeka's robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite its stability and sustainability.

Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards-based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the Web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.

In this webinar, Sheila Brennan, Omeka End User Outreach Coordinator and Senior Digital History Associate at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), provides an overview of Omeka. Dave Lester, Omeka Developer Outreach Coordinator and Developer at CHNM provides more technical aspects of the Omeka software.

Participation is free and open to all but advanced registration is required. This is the second product demo track webinar in the TAI CHI series.

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26 August 2009

Jane Nichols,
Subject Librarian,
Oregon State University

Kim Griggs,
Programmer,
Orgegon State University

Library à la Carte

Library à la Carte is software developed at Oregon State University that lets you build customized Web pages by choosing exactly what you want from a menu of choices. in this webinar, Jane Nichols, Oregon State University subject librarian, demonstrated how to create course Web pages, assignment tip sheets and subject guides in minutes without writing a single line of HTML. This content management system makes it easy to integrate Web 2.0 features, chat and RSS feeds, etc. with traditional library content, such as catalogs and article databases, into Web pages. Kim Griggs, Oregon State University programmer, discussed installing and customizing Library à la Carte and future developments.

This was the first product demo track webinar in the TAI CHI series.

  • .wmv (coming soon*)
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*We are currently having difficulties making webinar recordings available. We are continuing to investigate options for correcting this and hope to post the recordings as soon as possible.