Members of the TDL community receive access to a number of resources and opportunities to engage with colleagues to facilitate and contribute to wider discussions toward the advancement of digital libraries and related services.
| Access training materials and documentation on the TDL wiki |
Users can access training, documentation, and other materials for each of our services, linked here. No log in is necessary to view these materials.
More documentation, presentations, and other reporting and output of the TDL is made available in the TDL Repository. Video recordings with captioning are available on the TDL YouTube Channel.
Resources
Digital Preservation
- TDL Content Inventory and Prioritization (Google s/s; June 2017)
- LOC Preservation Tools Showcase
- Scholar’s Portal Guide to Handling Digital Archives (Pre-Ingest into a Digital Preservation systems and storage)
- DuraSpace and DuraCloud
- DuraSpace DuraCloud™ Wiki
- DuraCloud™ Sync and DuraCloud™ Retrieval Tools: Setup Instructions
- Metadata Resources
- University of Houston Digital Library Metadata Dictionary (Technical and Preservation Metadata)
- NC Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects (State Library of North Carolina)
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata
- METS schema
- Metadata Generation and Extraction Tools
- File Packaging Tools
- BagIT Overview from Library of Congress (Video)
- Bagit/Bagger Source Code from Library of Congress
- BagIt Source Code
- Bagger Source Code
- BagIt Instructions from World Digital Library
- BagIt from California Digital Library
- Webinars
- Overview of Digital Preservation Services at Texas Digital Library
- DuraSpace’s Heather Greer Klein on DuraCloud
- UCSD Digital Preservation Analyst Sibyl Schaefer on Chronopolis
TDL ETD Metadata Working Group
- Dictionary of Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata for Electronic Theses and Dissertations Version 2 (PDF; September 2015)
Previous versions:
- TDL Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for Electronic Theses and Dissertations Version 1 (PDF; April 2009)
- TDL MODS Application Profile for Electronic Theses and Dissertations Version 1 (PDF; April 2009)
Training
All presentations slides are also available in the TDL DSpace Repository and video recordings are available on the TDL YouTube Channel.
DSpace
- Training materials in Confluence
- DSpace 5 Release Webinar (PPT, PDF; January 2016)
- Introduction to DSpace (PPT; September 2014)
Vireo
- Vireo Video Tutorials (YouTube)
- Vireo Deployment Checklist (PDF; November 2013)
- Vireo Training (PDF; November 2009;)
Open Journal Systems
- Open Journal Systems Training SLIDES | VIDEO (2018)
- OJS: Quick Submit Plugin Tutorial (PDF; 2017)
- TDL Electronic Journals: Creating an Online Scholarly Journal Using OJS (PPT; 2014)