[Irtalk] Fwd: [Dspace-general] SAVE THE DATES: Advanced DSpace Course June 3-6, Austin, Texas

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From: Carol Minton Morris <cmmorris at fedora-commons.org>
Date: 31 March 2014 19:50
Subject: [Dspace-general] SAVE THE DATES: Advanced DSpace Course June 3-6,
Austin, Texas
To: dspace-general at lists.sourceforge.net


*From From Debra Hanken Kurtz, Director, Texas Digital Library*

*Austin, TX*  In response to the popularity of the previously offered
Advanced DSpace training opportunity, the Texas Digital Library is offering
an expanded 4-day Advanced
DSpace<http://www.tdl.org/training/advanced-dspace/> course
on June 3-6 in Austin, Texas.

Registration will open for the course on Wednesday, April 11 and will be
available to TDL members and non-members on that date. Registrants from TDL
member organizations will have the opportunity to register at a discounted
rate.

Details about the course are below. More information is available on the
TDL website <http://www.tdl.org/training/advanced-dspace/>.

• Dates: June 3-6 (four full days)
• Location: Perry-Castañeda Library, Room 1.202 (on the UT Austin campus)
• Registration Rates: $600 (non-members); $425 (TDL members)
• Instructor: James Creel, Texas A&M Libraries

James Creel is the Senior Lead Software Applications Developer at Texas A&M
University Libraries, where he supervises the software development team.
 James manages the development and maintenance of digital library and
information management applications and provides TAMU Libraries faculty
with training and tools for transmitting and curating content and metadata.
 James has a BA in Economics and a BS in Computer Science from the
University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M
University.  James has 7 years experience with customizing, administering,
and importing and disseminating collections with DSpace.

*Course Content:*

The four-day course will be broken down into three modules, covering the
topics listed below. DSpace 3.2 will be the version used in this offering
of the course.

*Configuration*

• Themes and Aspects
• Internationalization
• Authentication
• Media Filters
• Curation Tasks
• Submission Workflows
• Controlled Vocabularies
• Statistics
• Discovery, Search, and Browse
• OAI

*Content transmission*

• OAI protocols and crosswalks
• OAI harvesting
• SWORD servers and clients
• Batch Imports

*Theming*

• Creating a new theme
• Colors, Fonts, and Layouts with CSS
• Content presentation with XSL
• Using semantic web services with Javascript and AJAX

*Course Prerequisites:*

• Participants should at minimum have knowledge of the DSpace user
interface and have taken the Intro to DSpace training course (or some
equivalent). It is assumed that participants will be very familiar with the
following aspects of DSpace: Community/Collection hierarchy; epersons,
groups, and authorization management; and the metadata registry.
• Participants should be able to perform basic tasks at a system command
line, such as
• listing files and directories
• changing the working directory
• executing programs
• Participants should be comfortable editing text files.  The course
material will involve editing a variety of DSpace configuration files.
• Basic knowledge of programming languages and web development will enhance
one's appreciation of the material.  Examples on customizing themes will
involve XML, XSLT, CSS, and JavaScript.  Examples on writing new curation
tasks and media filters will involve Java.

*Please send any questions to: info at tdl.org <info at tdl.org>*

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
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