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Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works

Description: The preface states that the work includes citations of articles, books, and technical reports on digital curation, mostly published between 2000 and 2011 in English. The bibliogrphy doesnot cover conference papers, digital media works, editorials, presentation slides, unpublished e-prints, or weblog postings.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Bailey, Charles W., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS)

Description: This document is a technical Recommended Practice for use in developing a broader consensus on what is required for an archive to provide permanent, or indefinite Long Term, preservation of digital information. This Recommended Practice establishes a common framework of terms and concepts which make up an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). It allows existing and future archives to be more meaningfully compared and contrasted. It provides a basis for further standardization within an archi… more
Date: June 2012
Creator: CCSDS Secretariat, Space Communications and Navigation Office, 7L70
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

Description: Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture's use — copyright and related rights — have become increasingly restrictive. This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists … more
Date: March 2012
Creator: De Rosnay, Mélanie Dulong & De Martin, Juan Carlos
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation

Description: The "Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation" (ANADP) conference was held at the National Library of Estonia, from May 23-25, 2011. More than 125 delegates from more than 20 countries were gathered in Tallinn, Estonia and explored how to create and sustain international collaborations to support the preservation of digital cultural memory. This publication contains a collection of peer-reviewed essays that were developed by conference panels and attendees in the months following AN… more
Date: August 2012
Creator: Educopia Institute
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Oral Literature in Africa

Description: This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language” and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This volume is complemented by original recordings of stories and songs from the Limba country (Sierra Leone), collected by Finnegan d… more
Date: 2012
Creator: Finnegan, Ruth H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries

Description: This study examines basic functional aspects of large digital libraries and draws on examples of existing digital libraries to illustrate their varying approaches to storage and content delivery, metadata approaches and harvesting, search and discovery, services and applications, and system sustainability.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Henry, Geneva
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Outrageous Oral Volume 3: The Dallas Way GLBT History Project

Description: This video recording presents Outrageous Oral Volume 3. For this event, attendees welcomed members of The Dallas Way GLBT History Project to the University of North Texas (UNT) campus. This is a group of community members dedicated to preserving the history of gay life in Dallas, and their Outrageous Oral events bring together artists, activists, and civic leaders to share their stories of life as gay people in the DFW area, pre-Stonewall, pre-DADT, and during the first cataclysmic years of the… more
Date: October 11, 2012
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Freese, Ephraim; Garcia, Gilda; Belden, Dreanna; Greene, Monica; Monroe, Bruce et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Digital Scholarship Cooperative (DiSCo)

The Digital Squeeze: Libraries at the Crossroads: the Library Resource Guide Benchmark Study on 2012 Library Spending Plans

Description: The second annual benchmark study of library spending plans from Library Resource Guide explores the wide range of spending and priorities decision-making taking place in 2012 budgets for public, academic and special libraries. Includes year-to-year comparative data. Learn where peer institutions are focusing their scarce investments, based on a study of over 700 participating North American institutions.
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Date: April 2012
Creator: McKendrick, Joseph
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Library of Congress Magazine (LCM), Vol. 1 No. 1: September-October 2012

Description: Library of Congress Magazine (LCM) is published bimonthly to tell the Library’s stories, to showcase its many talented staff, and to share and promote the use of the resources of the world’s largest library. The publication is also accessible free online at www.loc.gov/lcm/.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Office of Communications, Library of Congress
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Library of Congress Magazine (LCM), Vol. 1 No. 2: November-December 2012

Description: Library of Congress Magazine (LCM) is published bimonthly to tell the Library’s stories, to showcase its many talented staff, and to share and promote the use of the resources of the world’s largest library. The second issue discusses a new exhibition highlighting the personal aspects of the Civil War in America, which also includes a celebration of books that shaped America, the facts behind the Maya calendar and 2012, and the first recipe for pumpkin pie.The publication is also accessible fre… more
Date: November 2012
Creator: Office of Communications, Library of Congress
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Introduction to Data Science

Description: This book provides non-technical readers with a gentle introduction to essential concepts and activities of data science. For more technical readers, the book provides explanations and code for a range of interesting applications using the open source R language for statistical computing and graphics"--Resource home page.
Date: 2012
Creator: Stanton, Jeffrey M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

Description: UNESCO issued this publication to demystify the concept of Open Access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Building capacities in Member States for Open Access is a necessary but not sufficient condition for promotion of the concept. Creating an enabling policy environment for OA is therefore a priority. This publication will serve the needs of OA policy development at the government, institutional and funding agency level. The overall objective of the Pol… more
Date: 2012
Creator: Swan, Alma
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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University of North Texas System Strategic Plan: 2012-2016

Description: Strategic plan for the University of North Texas (UNT) System outlining the organization's vision, mission, and values, as well as specific, five-year goals for each of the system's campuses: the main Denton campus, UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, and UNT Dallas.
Date: 2012
Creator: University of North Texas System
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries
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El Espejo, Volume 2, 2012

Description: El Espejo literary journal contains writing by Spanish students at the University of North Texas including essays in Spanish literature and linguistics and creative pieces such as poetry and short stories.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

End of Term Presidential Harvest 2012

Description: This is the collection for the End of Term Presidential Harvest 2012, an effort by the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive, and the U.S. Government Printing Office to preserve public United States Government web sites at the end of the presidential term that ended January 20, 2013. This collection documents federal agencies' presence on the World Wide Web during the transition of Presidential administrations.
Date: 2012/2013
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Website
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Net.Lang : Towards the Multilingual Cyberspace

Description: This publication is an educational, political and practical guide to policy and practice to understand key issues of multilingualism in cyberspace. Multilingualism is the new frontier of the digital network. This book presents the issues, and provides suggestions for a cyber-presence This publication, supported by UNESCO, will contribute to interdisciplinary dialogue among various stakeholders, open up new horizons for better understanding the importance of linguistic diversity, raise awareness… more
Date: 2012
Creator: Vannini, Laurent & Le Crosnier, Hervé
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries
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