- Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections
- This presentation describes the infrastructure and collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital initiatives. This discusses issues related to searching and explains possible solutions to best enhance metadata and searching capabilities. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28345/
- Challenges in Web Archiving UNT Perspective
- This presentation discusses making Web archives more usable for libraries, building digital library collections from Web content, and understanding how Web archives should fit into traditional library metrics. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28361/
- Building Digital Archives
- This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28350/
- 2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access
- This presentation outlines the history, tool building, partner activities and future work for a collaborative project between the University of North Texas, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, and the U.S. Government Printing Office. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28365/
- Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives
- This presentation is a brief outline of the End-of-Term archiving project done as a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas Libraries, and the California Digital Library. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28355/
- Annexation of Texas Project
- This presentation outlines the "From Republic to State: Debates and Documents Relating to the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1856" project. This grant funded project involved digitizing 6000 objects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28337/
- Using Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for Persistent Identification
- This presentation discusses the usefulness of an Archival Resource Key (ARK) and how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Digital Projects Unit use ARKs in their system. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28359/
- Web Archiving Workshop: Tools Overview
- This presentation offers a brief discussion of web archiving tools. Tools include Wget, HTTrack, Heritrix, Wayback, and NutchWAX. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28344/
- Web Archiving Workshop: Overview
- This presentation gives a brief overview of the history of web archiving and explains key terms and concepts related to web archiving and harvesting with illustrated examples. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28343/
- Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGENE Project
- This paper discusses applying user-centered design principles to redesign The Portal to Texas History. Abstract: The IOGENE project at the University of North Texas Libraries applied user-centered design principles to redesign the interface to a unique digital library of cultural heritage materials, The Portal to Texas History. Since its launch in 2004, the interface had become dated and implementation of new functionality was constrained by the underlying technical infrastructure. Genealogists, a significant and under-studied class of digital library users, participated in the redesign of the Portal's interface. At the outset of the project, focus group discussions provided insights regarding genealogists' information needs as well as their research practices in relation to online information systems. In large part, these insights informed the functional requirements for the redesign of the Portal's user interface. Subsequent to each of two public releases of the redesigned interface, genealogists were engaged in usability testing. An online survey measured user satisfaction prior to and after the new interface was released. Results determined that satisfaction with the Portal significantly improved after the final release of the redesigned interface. The project's process and findings will be of interest to archives and digital libraries facing similar challenges in regard to redesigning their user interface and involving users in the design process. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28324/
- Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development: Born-Digital and Digitized Materials
- This presentation discusses the phases of web collection development, challenges with web archives, and the need and benefit for preserving web materials. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28321/
- URL Nominating Tool
- This presentation gives an overview of the URL Nominating TOOL project and defines some of the associated key concepts. It explores the entity attribute value data model, URL's and SURTs, and batch imports. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28349/
- Web Archiving at UNT and End of Term Harvest 2008
- This presentation illustrates the collaborative project with the University of North Texas (UNT) and the United States Government Printing Office as part of the Federal Depository Library Program. The CyberCemetery was created as an online archive of government websites that have ceased operation. This also discusses the UNT collaboration with the United States Government Printing Office, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and the California Digital Library in an End of Term Harvest project in 2008 to archive the Presidential campaign websites before they ceased to exist. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28319/
- Preserving Our Collective Digital History
- This presentation introduces the mission and the roles of the departments in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and focuses on the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28358/
- Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: UNT's Congressional Research Service Reports Archive
- This presentation describes the University of North Texas' Congressional Research Services (CRS) Report Archive project. The idea is to capture all CRS reports made available on the web and archive them in one searchable and browsable spot. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28363/
- Real World Metadata Management with the University of North Texas Libraries' Metadata Analysis Tool
- This presentation gives a brief introduction to the University of North Texas Libraries' digital initiatives, their collections and projects, what metadata management is, and metadata analysis tools. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28353/
- Rolling Your Own Digital Library System
- This presentation discusses the topic of building your own digital library system. It explains why the University of North Texas built their own system and some of the initial challenges and the advantages associated with the process. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28368/
- User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library
- This presentation discusses the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit at the University of North Texas (UNT) and the IOGENE project. There are illustrated examples and discussion about the challenges faced with the IOGENE user studies. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28351/
- Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?
- This presentation briefly introduces the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and their mission. It explains the structure of the Digital Projects Unit having the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History, and discusses their metadata structure and its role in Digital Projects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28356/
- Metadata and XML
- This presentation discusses how XML can help store metadata. The University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit developed the UNTL metadata element set with IndexData that tailored the data to meet their needs. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28339/
- OAI-ORE
- This presentation discusses how the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) are used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library. OAI-ORE define the standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28342/
- Storage 101: The Basics
- This presentation discusses storage options for digital content, questions to ask when planning, and things to consider for storing and digitizing data. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28341/
- XML for Text Markup: An Introduction to XML Markup
- This presentation introduces the extensible markup language (XML) for text markup. It explains where XML came from, the advantages, gives a comparison of XML to HTML, and discusses how XML works and can be used. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28338/
- Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries
- This presentation gives a basic outline of the work flow and processes involved within the Digital Projects Unit. Topics include scanning, digital preservation, and staffing. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28367/
- Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project
- This presentation explains the End of Term Presidential Harvest, a collaborative project to preserve U.S. Government web sites at the end of the 2008 Presidential election. The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, California Digital Library, University of North Texas, and the US Government Printing Office were the participating organizations for this project. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28366/
- Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Collaborative Models for Digital Libraries in a Heterogeneous Institutional Landscape
- This presentation gives a brief overview of the collaborative efforts of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit and its partners in digitization projects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28357/
- Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries
- This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28340/
- Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive
- This paper discusses open source components, standard conformance, and UCD. The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to cultural heritage collections from Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections. From its initial release in 2004, the Portal's unique visitors had grown from 1,000 per month to over 20,000 per month. The user interface had become dated and the underlying digital asset management system (DAMS) did not readily support implementation of new functionality. The IOGENE project at the University of North Texas Libraries involved family history researchers, a major user group of archives, in a user-centered application development project to redesign the Portal's interface. At the outset of the project, an application development model was created to guide three teams: system development, interface design, and user studies. The legacy DAMS was replaced with an infrastructure and framework of open source components. Specifications and standard practices in critical areas were established. The Portal's newly minted interface and infrastructure debuted in two public releases in 2009. Subsequent to each release, usability tests were conducted and at the conclusion of the project, experiences and accomplishments were reviewed by the project teams. This review informed a revised application development model that may be of value and interest to both the user support staffs and technical organizations at other archives. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28325/
- Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive
- This presentation is about The Portal to Texas History and the IOGENE project and the strategies and steps involved in their development. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28354/
- The Portal to Texas History
- This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History was started, the processes involved, and how the IOGENE project developed. It discusses the many planning phases and reasons for the decisions that were made and illustrates the outcomes and how The Portal to Texas History works. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28320/
- Experience Talks: Post-Digitization Quality Control Strategies and Tools
- This presentation discusses strategies for quality control during the post-digitization phase. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28348/
- Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' web harvesting system organization. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28352/
- Federated Search
- This presentation discusses federated and faceted searching including target audiences, expectations, approaches, protocols, uses, and issues. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28362/
- Infrastructure for the UNT Digital Library
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit workflows, how they overcame challenges, and how the use of established models and standards helped them find solutions to the workflow. It presents the editing system created for the Digital Projects Unit, the organizational structure for each object, and identifiers. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28347/
- Infrastructure for the UNT Digital Library
- This presentation discusses creating workflows for digitization projects as well as data models and descriptive metadata schema. It describes the processes of creating a workable model to digitize objects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28346/
- Leveraging the Results of NDNP: the Texas Digital Newspaper Program
- This presentation discusses how the University of North Texas Libraries and The Portal to Texas History leveraged the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and created the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28360/
- Introduction to METS: UNT Libraries' Tech Talks
- This presentation explores METS. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. Maintained by the Library of Congress, it provides a standard vocabulary and set of data structures for encoding hierarchical digital object content and metadata. METS employs a METS header, a descriptive metadata section, an administrative metadata section, a file section, and a structural map. In this presentation the author explains more about these parts of METS, and discusses how METS may be applicable to digital collections in the UNT Libraries. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28323/
- Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources
- This poster presentation discusses how an effective metadata management approach can help institutions improve consistency, clarity of lineage, and relationships to that they can better use, reuse, and integrate resources. It demonstrates metadata quality assurance mechanisms by examining different quality assessment criteria including metadata record completeness, consistency, accuracy, provenance, conformance to expectations, and other known substantive factors. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29287/
- Targeted Access for Varied Audiences to Integrated, Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources
- This poster presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History project, which aims to integrate and ensure long-term access to large quantities of heterogeneous digital resources from many different institutions. The UNT Library is undertaking the leadership role by creating the application framework, setting project standards and guidelines, and facilitating collaborative efforts for content building. Also discussed are expanded services for targeted audiences, project approaches to preservation challenges, collaboration benefits, and other issues that emerged in the process of building a platform for the portal system. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29283/
- Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities
- This poster was presented at the 2005 American Society for Information Sciences and Technologies (ASIS&T) conference. It is based on the University of North Texas Libraries' Portal to Texas History project and provides a general overview on the emerging trends and innovative use of portal technologies. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29284/
- Digital Collection Development Policy: From Documenting Content to Documenting Process
- This poster discusses collection policies. Drawing from the experience of developing digital collections and a digital library infrastructure, the University of North Texas Libraries is developing a new collection policy specifically to meet the unique needs of digital collection building. This poster discusses new opportunities and challenges in digital life cycle managements in general. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29289/
- Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions
- This poster presentation provides some preliminary result on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29288/
- Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience
- This poster presentation is based on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital libraries implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29286/
- Integration of ETD into Topical Digital Library Collections: Facilitating ETD Use and Reuse
- Based on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' experience, this poster examines the challenges and opportunities presented by integrating Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) into existing digital collections and demonstrates the role that ETDs can play in topical collection development in digital libraries. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29290/
- The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources: Lessons from Texas History Portal
- This poster discusses issues related to portal building and explores compliance and interoperability issues. It also assesses the current status and the emerging trends in innovative uses of portal technologies and provides an overall scenario. In context of aggregating a variety of formats, bundling preservation metadata to facilitate long-term access, setting project standards and best practice guidelines, and coordinating a variety of collaborative efforts for participating institutions. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29285/
- Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update
- This presentation provides an update on three projects the Texas Digital Library Metadata Working Group (TDL-MWG) is working on. These include designing a metadata information website, creating best practices for images and datasets, and creating metadata courses for Texas Digital Library (TDL) training. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29302/
- Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
- This presentation discusses issues related to metadata quality management and demonstrates a number of tools, workflows, and quality assurance mechanisms employed by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29301/
- Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas
- This presentation discusses how the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit established their metadata guidelines and how the guidelines work to support The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas Digital Library. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29305/
- Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative
- This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' initiatives to ensure long-term access to various digital resources. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29291/
- Metadata Madness: Quality Issues in Metadata Management
- This presentation provides an introductory discussion on metadata quality issues. It outlines factors that influence metadata quality including the resource types, local requirements, collaborators' requirements, and cost issues and addresses how to manage metadata quality. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29295/