How to Use the Montana Memory Projfect for Teachers
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Montana Memory Project provides access to digital collections from numerous Montana libraries and historical repositories relating to Montana’s cultural heritage and government. These collections and items document the Montana experience. Many of these items are digitized copies of historic material, some items are contemporary. All serve as a resource for education, business, pleasure, and lifelong learning. This is a statewide project of the Montana State Library and the Montana Historical Society Research Center.
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How to Use the Montana Memory Projfect for Teachers
- 2. What is it? • Digital repository • Sponsored by Montana State Library and Montana Historical Society • Items from Montana special collections • Used for, education, research, life-long learning, pleasure
- 3. Collections
- 4. Today’s Objectives • Share how to use the MMP and navigate the collections • Brainstorm ways the material could be incorporated into existing classroom lessons • Look at lesson plan form to submit ideas • Preview the lesson plan template for publishing
- 7. Artwork
- 8. Audio
- 9. Photographs
- 11. Print Materials
- 12. Print Sections and Themes
- 13. Contributors
- 15. Maps
- 16. Maps – more detail
- 21. Banner Row 1-Tabs Row 2 - Search Row 3 - Breadcrumbs Row 4 - Interactive
- 22. Reference URL
- 23. Share Options
- 24. Share - Email
- 25. Share - Facebook
- 26. Comment
- 27. Rate & Save to Favorites
- 29. Resize Image
- 30. Image Toolbar
- 31. Zoomed out to 55%
- 32. Full Browser
- 33. Fit to Window
- 34. Fit to Width
- 36. Print Materials
- 37. Content
- 38. Thumbnails
- 39. Searching
- 40. Advanced Search
- 42. Adding or Removing Collections
- 43. OCR • Optical Character Recognition • Method by which the computer reads and records typed content • This content can also be searched • Handwritten documents cannot have OCR done unless they are accompanied by a typed transcript.
- 44. OCR Search
- 45. View Image & Text
- 46. Search Suggestions • When searching first and last names use the “exact phrase” refinement. • The default operator is “and” change it to “or” for more results • Narrow your search by adding or removing collections • Search content in a specific field when you can.
- 47. Page Flip View
- 48. Page Flip – overview not for reading
- 49. Page Flip View
- 50. Mountain West Digital Library http://www.mwdl.org/
- 51. Partners Page
- 52. Digital Public Library of America http://dp.la/
Editor's Notes
- Welcome. I am excited to share with you some information about this project and how to use this valuable, free resource. The Montana Memory Project.
- “What is it?” It is a digital repository sponsored by the Montana State Library and the Montana Historical Society for items from Montana's special collection. Which, basically, means we scan all types of materials and make them available on the internet. These items are then searchable and are used for education, research, life-long learning, and enjoyment. There are excellent primary resources on a wide variety of topics.
- The collections are made up of a wide array of content. Some of this content includes photographs, documents, newspapers, yearbooks, maps, books, ephemera. The list goes on… There are over 70 collections and over 30,000 items. To make the content easier to manage, The web page has been organized into some broad categories which make up the tabs on the home page. This design was created with teachers and students in mind.
- Here is a screenshot of the home page. You can see under the title several tabs. We will take a look at each of these tabs in the next few slides.
- As you scroll down the home page you will see some important links, including links to the sponsors of the pages and the partners with this project. Additionally there is a link to information on how to contribute content to the MMP. Schools are welcome to participate in submitting collections.
- The first tab on the homepage is the artwork tab. You will see artwork or art related collections listed here. This category is relatively new and one that the MMP expects to grow in the coming years. Highlighting the many talented Montana artists and their contributions.
- Another new category is the Audio collections. This content includes oral histories and radio interviews currently. In the future we might find musical recordings as well. Creating community oral histories might be a great school project.
- There are thousands of photographs for viewing on the MMP. Because of the large number of collections they have been organized by themes in hopes of making it easier for the user to find what they would like to see. There are photos related to agriculture and homesteading, city histories, county histories, mining, military, Native Americans, and science and technology. You can also look at the photo collections on one screen by clicking on All Photograph Collectons.
- You can also access the themes from the tab menu. When you hover your mouse over the photographs tab the themes menu will drop down, you can jump to a theme by clicking on it in the list. Clicking on the tab will take you to a page with a list of the themes that you saw in the last slide.
- The print materials tab contains the most content. This category is divided into five sections: books, documents, maps, newspapers, & yearbooks. The books and documents sections are very large and are therefore, further organized by themes like the photographs
- Hovering the mouse over the printed materials tab produces a drop down menu of the five sections and then hovering the mouse over the books or documents section produces a second drop down menu with the themes. You can click on a theme in this list to jump to that page. We will walk through how this works in a little bit.
- The contributors page lists each contributing institution and a linked list of the collections they have contributed. We are continually looking for more content and encourage people to talk to their local library about possible collections. The Montana Memory Project currently works with Libraries, Archives, Museums, and schools to add content. Local organizations and individuals are asked to work with their local library to create collections.
- This section is a work in progress and one I hope you will consider helping to develop. It currently organizes collection links by learning themes. Teachers are encouraged to submit lesson plans and ideas for how to use MMP content in the classroom. These lessons plans will be published on this page. I know it makes sense for teachers to find the natural fit for these resources within your curriculum, rather than me trying to write lesson plans for you. You are the experts and I hope this provides a method for sharing your expertise related to this content. The Montana Historical Society has created great lessons and links to specific collections within the MMP.
- The maps tab is home to an interactive map that shows the locations represented in collections. There items on the site from all over the state, but again, the MMP is continually seeking new collections as well.
- This map is interactive, zooming in will show detailed locations. Clicking on just below a flag will give you of an overview for that particular collection.
- This is a screenshot of the photographs page. This page has an image for each theme and clicking the image will take you to the collections for that theme. If I click on City History
- I am take to this, screenshot of the city history photographs theme. Each of the images on this page represent a collection that is focused on a city’s history.
- Hovering the mouse over the collection icon will “pop-up” a full collection description. Clicking on the collection image will take you to the collection browsing page.
- This page is called the browse the collection page. It shows how many items are in the collection in the right hand corner and below it is a list of pages to navigate through in the collection. This screenshot shows that this collection is made up of 6159 photos. In the browse view 100 items are displayed on each page, so there are 62 pages of collection items. In this screen shot you are seeing the first 3 items in the list of 100. The list view shows a thumbnail image of the item, the title, the date original, subjects, and an item description. The search box is now a search within this collection. You can add or remove collections to browse or search in the left hand panel. You can also narrow your search by selecting items in the facet list on the lower left.
- When you open an Item, as I have done here you will see the item title and the item in the viewing box. This page is easiest to understand if we break in into rows of content The tabs with the addition of favorites and help are listed beneath the banner. The next row shows the Search box and the Viewing results 4 of 6159 images. You can page through the items with the arrows The third row of information shows the Breadcrumbs of the site Home>collection title>item title The fourth row pointed out by the arrow on the slide is made up of several interactive buttons that we will discuss in detail Reference URL +Share Comment Rate Save to favorites
- The first button in this row is the Reference URL The reference URL button gives a link to this particular item And gives an embed code to embed the item on a website If you are using these codes you must make sure you follow the copyright restrictions for the item
- Hovering over the share tab gives a drop down menu of common ways to share items with friends. Clicking on the tab will open the a box of options. There are nearly 300 different social media platforms represented in the list. We will look at two ways to share today.
- Clicking on email will open an email form. You can select a webmail service at the bottom of the screen or use this email form. Add the addresses in the to and from fields. Type a message if you want and send the email. The URL link is sent with the message.
- Select where you want to share the item from the drop down menu. Choose the image you want displayed with the link. Then say something and post.
- Clicking on the comment tab opens a small window. Click on post comment. Type your comment and your name and then click post comment. The comment shows up in the metadata on the page for everyone to see. We manage the comments and will remove any that are not appropriate.
- You can give any item a star rating by clicking on the stars in the tabs. You can also save any item to your favorites folder. At the end of your session you can review all your favorites and you have the option to export them to a PowerPoint file or to a zip file.
- Scrolling down the page, you will notice that the whole image is not visible. The blue box on the thumbnail in the left-hand corner reveals how much of the image is currently visible. Resize the viewing box by clicking and dragging on the arrows at the bottom of the image. Zoom in and out of the image Open Image viewer Fit image to the viewing area Resize the image to full view Rotate the image
- Scrolling down, I cannot see the whole image. The blue box on the thumbnail in the left-hand corner reveals how much of the image is currently visible. Resize the viewing box by clicking and dragging on the arrows at the bottom of the image.
- The blue overlay now shows that the whole image is visible. This Image was a small image as an original. Here we can see it is zoomed all the way. This row of information above the image includes the zoom slider and several other important tools - Zoom in and out of the image Open Image viewer Fit image to the viewing area Resize the image to full view Rotate the image
- If we set the zoom slider back to 55% we see that image is quite small
- Opens the image in a full page image viewer.
- Makes the image an appropriate size to fit the viewing window of our computer screen.
- This is the default setting and what will be viewed when you open any item in the MMP
- Scrolling down the page even further will reveal the descriptive metadata. This is all of the pertinent information a about the item. When you conduct a search on an item, it is this information that you are searching. If the photograph information is not recorded in the metadata, it is not searchable.
- Print materials have a slightly different look when opened. Print materials are usually more than one page. The pages appear in the content menu on the right side of the screen. You will notice that some items have a tiny + sign next to them. Clicking the + sign will open an extended menu of content
- The plus sign changes to a minus sign and now I can click on any page number and to see that page. There is an inside scroll bar to navigate the pages list. The navigation button “next” at the top of the page will allow me to turn pages too. This navigation tool shows there are 35 pages in this document and we are seeing 13 in the content window.
- The tabs at the top of the content view may give the option to view thumbnails of each page instead of just titles.
- By typing in a search word in the general search box on the home page you will search the entire MMP. The terms entered are searched for in the metadata and the results will be all matches to that term in all collections.
- Clicking on Advance search opens a window where you can specify which fields to search and within which collections. The drop down menus let you choose which words to search. The default is set to “exact phrase” and you can use the operator “and” or “or.”
- The drop down arrow next to all fields allows you to choose which fields to search for your term. If you know the title of an item and want to get to that particular item quickly, you can narrow your search to only the title field of the metadata.
- You have the option to select specific collections to search with in. Place check marks next to the collection you want to search. Here they are all selected. Clicking the check mark next to select all collection will “de-select” all and we can then click just on the collections we want to search.
- The information in these metadata fields must be entered when the content is added to the MMP. The item is uploaded to a software program, that allows for this information to be created. The more complete this information the better search results will be.
- OCR requires a specific license to run. The MMP has a limited number of OCR licenses to share with all contributors. Photographs are not OCR’d even if they are captioned. We require that the caption be typed into the description field.
- Search results using OCR appear within the document or within the text view of the item . The term is in the search box and the number of times the term was found in the document are listed at the top of the page. The number found on each page is listed in the content sidebar. The term is highlighted on the page. If the term is not highlighted click on the text tab to change the view. Clicking on the Text view will show just the OCR’d text The View image and text tab will show the two side by side.
- Text image view example, see the text to the left and the original document to the right
- Another tab you have to select from on this page is the page flip view.
- Clicking the page flip view gives a nice overview of the content pages. You can see the page layout, but the print is not large enough to read. The zoom tools do not work particularly well in this view.
- You also have the option to download the item or print the item.
- In 2013 Montana Memory Project became a partner with the Mountain West Digital Library. This portal displays content from several partners including Montana and it gives our content a wider audience.
- Clicking on the partners tab at the top of the page, and scrolling down to Montana will show you a list of all our contributors. Clicking on these names takes you to a page where their collections are linked.
- The MWDL is a service hub of the Digital Public Library of America. The MWDL collections are harvested by DPLA and are included on their web pages too. This is a huge national project with over 7 million items and growing…