Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This paper discusses digital resource management. Abstract: Quality is a multidimensional concept. The two aspects of digital library data quality are the quality of the data in the objects themselves, and the quality of the metadata associated with the objects. Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections necessitates maintaining high quality metadata about those digital objects. The University of North Texas Libraries recognize the strategic benefit of metadata as a means of ensuring long term access to its digital resources. This paper discusses issues related to digital resource management and describes how the University of North Texas Digital Projects Unit approaches metadata quality issues at various levels of the digital resources life cycle. It also suggests a number of metadata quality assurance procedures, tools, and associated quality assurance mechanisms.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
Date: March 16, 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital resource management. The UNT Libraries participate in a number of collaborative and in-house digital initiatives. In managing digital resources, the Libraries utilize locally qualified Dublin Core-based descriptive metadata along with detailed technical and preservation metadata elements. Metadata quality is influenced by both local and collaborative requirements. Because poor metadata quality can result in ambiguity, poor recall and inconsistent search results, the UNT Libraries use quality assurance mechanisms during metadata creation and employ specialized metadata analysis tools after the files are ingested into digital archives. Templates, validation, controlled vocabularies, analysis tools, graphical reports, and more are explained in this presentation.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Integration of ETD into Topical Digital Library Collections: Facilitating ETD Use and Reuse
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: 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.
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Retrospective Digitization of Theses and Dissertations: Revisiting Issues and Considerations
Date: May 2011
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This poster displays information about digitization of theses and dissertations. Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) play significant roles, not only as new forms of scholarly communication, but also as drivers for the development of institutional repositories and digital libraries in general. The University of North Texas (UNT) was among the early U.S. institutions that moved quickly and aggressively to implement an ETD program. In 1999, UNT required the submission of theses and dissertations in electronic format. The UNT Libraries have been playing an active role in supporting the UNT ETD program by integrating ETDs into the existing digital resources. ETDs receive significant usage in the UNT Digital Library system, compared to the overall percentage of digital objects.
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Empowering Digital Libraries Users through Combining Taxonomies with Folksonomies
Date: October 2012
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
Description: This poster presents discussion on empowering digital library users through combining taxonomies and folksonomies. Given the increase in the number and heterogeneity of digital resources, it has become increasingly difficult for researchers to find relevant contents in their own areas, let alone related disciplines. As more users move into the more self-structured digital environment, a new paradigm for user experience will be required.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Empowering Digital Libraries Users through Combining Taxonomies with Folksonomies
Date: October 2012
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
Description: This paper accompanies a poster presentation discussing empowering digital libraries users through combining taxonomies and folksonomies. Abstract: The increase in the number and heterogeneity of digital resources has led cultural heritage institutions to develop tools, workflows, and quality assurance mechanisms that allow effective digital resource management. The poster that this paper describes assesses the current landscape in digital libraries as well as best practices and identifies emerging trends in information indexing. It also explores the potentials of and controversies surrounding user supplied tags or keywords in terms of complementing established controlled vocabularies in a diverse and collaborative environment.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
Description: 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.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29301/
Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
Description: This paper 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 Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29320/
Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE
Date: February 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Weidner, Andrew
Description: This poster discusses metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE. Digital lifecycle management starts when an item is created (born-digital) or selected for digitization (analog) and continues through image post-processing, metadata capture, derivative creation, and preservation for long-term access. Quality metadata is crucial to implementing reliable, usable, and sustainable digital libraries. Recognizing the role of standardized metadata in digital resource lifecycle management, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries actively promote metadata-based digital resource management. The UNT Digital Libraries Division utilizes various tools to ensure metadata consistency and precision across all digital resources and facilitate digital curation activities. This poster illustrates a workflow that uses Selenium IDE to edit large sets of published metadata records quickly and accurately with minimal human intervention.
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Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE
Date: February 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Weidner, Andrew
Description: This document accompanies a poster and discusses metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE. Abstract: Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the myriad challenges at various stages of the data lifecycle. Digital curation activities enhance access and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and facilitate use and re-use over time. Digital resource lifecycle management is becoming an increasingly important topic as digital curators actively explore tools and applications that directly perform curation and management tasks. Accordingly, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries develop and/or adopt various tools, workflows, and quality control mechanisms that enable quick and effective analysis and quality assurance. This brief paper demonstrates automated metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE, an open source, Web-based tool which UNT has adopted for use during the post-ingestion stage of the data lifecycle.
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