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- Digital Curation Micro-Applications: Digital Lifecycle Management with AutoHotkey
- This poster discusses open source software tools coded with AutoHotkey that the UNT digital libraries group has developed for digital curation during the pre-ingest stage of the digital resource lifecycle. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159530/
- [Handout to Accompany Poster on Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard]
- Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata." In includes examples of dates that meet Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards, examples of problems encountered when normalizing date displays for users, additional statistics related to already-valid dates in the digital collections at the time that the standards were formally adopted, and links to online materials. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159536/
- [Handout to Accompany Poster on Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports]
- Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort." In includes a brief overview of the project, a list of hardware and software used in the project, and a detailed list of the steps for each stage of the process (Inventory, Scanning, Processing, Metadata, and Upload). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159537/
- How Digital Libraries can Create a Culture of Open Access on Campus
- This panel presentation discusses how digital libraries can create a culture of open access on campus. Five panelists discuss their perspectives, strategies, challenges, and progress. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159535/
- Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata
- Poster illustrating issues involved in fully-implementing the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards in the UNT Libraries' digital collections, comprising The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History. The first section, "Analysis of Dates," provides statistics related to the number of valid entries among existing date instances in the system, the most common issues with non-EDTF valid dates, and the number of valid dates after simulating automated conversions for adjusting some non-valid dates. The second section illustrates the written guidelines provided for metadata creators and the embedded validation tools that alert persons entering metadata when the dates do not meet EDTF standards. The third section includes screenshots to show date normalization in the user interface, to make formatted dates more accessible, and the icon that is used when dates cannot be easily normalized, providing access to a glossary. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159532/
- Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region's Maps Online
- This poster discusses the Mapping the Southwest Project, involving putting our region's maps online. The poster includes background information on the project, the project plan, workflow and equipment, and the impacts and lessons learned. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159528/
- Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort
- Poster illustrating the workflow used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit to digitize large numbers of TRAIL (Technical Report and Image Library) documents. The poster outlines five stages: [1] "Inventory," in which staff account for items received and route un-cut reports for disbinding before adding them to the scanning queue, [2] "Scanning," in which regularly-sized pages are scanned on a duplex scanner and fold-out pages are scanned on flatbed or planetary scanners, [3] "Processing," in which files are deskewed, resized, compressed, rotated, etc., and quality control checks identify errors, [4] "Metadata," in which the MARC records for the reports are converted into XML and a metadata creator fills in additional fields, and [5] "Online," in which reports are publicly available on the UNT Digital Library. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159538/
- Understanding large digital collections and learning new tools: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program Visualizations
- This presentation discusses the Texas Digital Newspaper Program visualizations and learning new tools for digital collections. Abstract: As digital library collections continue to increase in size it becomes necessary to use new tools and techniques to communicate and understand the rich content held in these collections to curators and end users. This presentation discusses the use of the D3 Javascript library to visualize and provide new insight to the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) hosted by The Portal to Texas History as a case study. The collection contains over one million pages of Texas newspapers from the 1830's to modern day covering over one hundred counties, and hundreds of titles. An overview of existing newspaper visualization projects will be presented as well as an explanation of how the presenters prepared the data for these visualizations using the publicly available TDNP OAI-PMH repository and the open source D3 Javascript library. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159531/
- Utilizing Digital Library Infrastructure to Build Modern Research Collections
- This keynote presentation covers the opportunities that digital library infrastructure offers if utilized effectively as a tool to build novel research collections. It highlights examples from the UNT Libraries and other institutions, which demonstrate these concepts. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159539/
- Workflow Tools for Digital Curation
- This article discusses workflow tools for digital curation. Abstract: Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the many challenges of various stages of the digital object 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 software tools that perform metadata curation and file management tasks. Accordingly, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries develop tools and workflows that streamline production and quality assurance activities. This article demonstrates two open source software tools, AutoHotkey and Selenium IDE, which the UNT Digital Libraries has adopted for use during the pre-ingest and post-ingest stages of the digital resource lifecycle. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc157307/
- Texas Digital Newspaper Program Million Page Dataset
- This dataset represents the first million pages of Texas newspapers added to The Portal to Texas History as part of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. The dataset consists of 123,184 newspaper issues from 569 titles, comprising 1,000,003 pages. Additionally the 3,349,156 item uses associated with this dataset as of April 7, 2013 are included. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc158400/
- Improving Access to Web Archives through Innovative Analysis of PDF Content
- This presentation discusses improving access to web archives through innovative analysis of PDF content. It includes a background of the End of Term (EOT) 2008 Presidential Web Archive, a collaborative web archiving project, collection development with web archive content, and the workflow and processes involved in these projects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc155638/
- Improving Access to Web Archives through Innovative Analysis of PDF Content
- This paper discusses improving access to web archives through innovative analysis of PDF content. Abstract: In 2008 five United States institutions collaborated to archive the U.S. federal government Web presence: the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, the Government Printing Office, and the University of North Texas (UNT). Their objective was to document the changes coincident with the shift in leadership of the U.S. executive branch. The five partners identified key resources from the U.S. .gov Top Level Domain and completed crawls from September 2008 until March 2009. The resulting End of Term (EOT) 2008 Web Archive, a 16 TB dataset, was distributed to partners interested in providing local services and access to the archive. The UNT Libraries investigated Portable Document Format (PDF) files, a class of content many information professionals associate with the traditional notion of “discrete documents”. Over four million unique PDF documents were extracted from the Archive and a series of metadata and information extraction processes were conducted for each document. Additionally, derivative raster images of the first page of each document were created. These metrics were ingested into a database for further analysis, which brought to light previously hidden characteristics of the federal government’s Web-published content. The paper discusses the overall workflow and describes the tools used to extract document features. Findings suggest opportunities for the development of retrieval tools that will provide new ways of selecting content and building collections from large Web archives. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc155622/
- "Mapping the Southwest" Project: Collaboration for Curation of Wide-format Items
- This presentation discusses the 'Mapping the Southwest' project and the collaboration for curation of wide-format items. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159529/
- Brown bag on iConference - 2013
- This presentation was created for a brown bag luncheon about the 2013 iConference. It includes discussion on participants, the venues, programs, the role of the UNT Libraries, and reflections on the event. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc152427/
- Unplug Your Mouse: Workflow Automation with AutoHotkey
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses workflow automation with AutoHotkey. AutoHotkey provides an easy to use scripting language for assigning multiple actions to a single key command, or hotkey. The AutoHotkey syntax also supports programming constructs and the creation of graphical user interfaces for developing complex applications. This Tech Talk will demonstrate how to write AutoHotkey scripts and give examples of how the Digital Projects Unit is using the software to streamline repetitive tasks. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146569/
- Classification Of The End-Of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices To Web Archives
- This is the final report for the EOTCD project, which is formally titled 'Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives.' The project commenced December 1, 2009 and ended November 30, 2012. The overview includes background information about the End of Term (EOT) 2008 Archive and a brief description of the activities conducted in the project's four work areas. Following the Overview there are three sections: Goals Accomplished; Significant Findings and Accomplishments; and Project Achievements. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc152437/
- Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146571/
- Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146565/
- Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Overview of Factors that Affect Digital Resources Discoverability
- This document accompanies a poster discussing factors that affect digital resources discoverability. Abstract: In the last decade, a growing body of the scholarly information and instructional materials produced by universities existed primarily in digital format. New digital technologies increased the productivity of scholars. The purpose of an Institutional Repository (IR) is to manage their scholarly work in ways that facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, and accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation. Academic institutions have increasingly recognized that IRs are a vital part of the scholarly dissemination infrastructure. The goal of an IR is essentially to collect, preserve, and make persistently accessible a variety of scholarly materials. This paper explores digital curation activities that enhance the visibility of IR in an ever-changing digital landscape. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146566/
- The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders Partnership
- This document accompanies a poster discussing the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project. Abstract: The transition from traditional paper and microfilm formats to electronic theses and dissertations presents a number of significant challenges for academic libraries. To address these challenges, the UNT Libraries, together with their partners, are working on a collaborative project sponsored by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership grant. This paper describes the project objectives, possible outcomes, and proposed deliverables including a toolkit of guidelines, educational materials, and software tools. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146567/
- The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders Partnership
- This poster discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project. Abstract: With most theses and dissertations now being created as digital products, lifecycle management of these valuable intellectual documents is an important new responsibility of academic libraries. But it is a responsibility that unfortunately not all libraries have the infrastructure or resources to support. The big question is: 'How will institutions address the entire lifecycle of ETDs, ensuring that the papers acquired from students today will be available to future researchers?' This two-year project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is a collaborative attempt to respond to this question. The authors will promote best curatorial practices to increase the capacity of academic libraries to reliably preserve ETDs by using a three-pronged approach: writing guidance documents, developing software tools, and creating educational materials. All of these resources will be available under an open access license at the conclusion of the project. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146592/
- Open Access Publishing Fees: Responses, Strategies and Emerging Best Practices
- This poster discusses open access publishing fees. The open access (OA) movement has led to a rethinking and restructuring of traditional publishing funding models. A growing number of OA journals require authors to pay an article processing charge (APC) in order to have their articles published in their journal. In addition, hybrid journals (i.e. traditional, subscription-based journals), are beginning to offer the option to make an article OA if authors pay an APC. This practice of charging an additional APC in order to provide open accessibility to articles is seen by many publishers as a transitional method from subscription-based models to more inclusive models of funding to incorporate OA initiatives. In response to the increasing number of journals charging APCs that authors are responsible for paying in order to have open accessibility to their work, a growing number of universities are creating OA funds to help cover all or a portion of the costs. This poster illustrates the findings of this research and identifies emerging best practices among universities that have implemented an OA fund. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146587/
- Open Access Publishing Fees: Responses, Strategies and Emerging Best Practices
- This document accompanies a poster on open access publishing fees. Abstract: The open access (OA) movement has led to a rethinking and restructuring of traditional publishing funding models. A growing number of OA journals require authors to pay an article processing charge (APC) in order to have their articles published in their journal. In addition, hybrid journals (i.e. traditional, subscription-based journals), are beginning to offer the option to make an article OA if authors pay an APC. This practice of charging an additional APC in order to provide open accessibility to articles is seen by many publishers as a transitional method from subscription-based models to more inclusive models of funding to incorporate OA initiatives. In response to the increasing number of journals charging APCs that authors are responsible for paying in order to have open accessibility to their work, a growing number of universities are creating OA funds to help cover all or a portion of the costs. This paper illustrates the findings of this research and identifies emerging best practices among universities that have implemented an OA fund. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146588/
- Metadata Analysis at the Command-Line
- This article discusses metadata analysis. Abstract: Over the past few years the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit (DPU) has developed a set of metadata analysis tools, processes, and methodologies aimed at helping to focus limited quality control resources on the areas of the collection where they might have the most benefit. The key to this work lies in its simplicity: records harvested from OAI-PMH-enabled digital repositories are transformed into a format that makes them easily parsable using traditional Unix/Linux-based command-line tools. This article describes the overall methodology, introduces two simple open-source tools developed to help with the aforementioned harvesting and breaking, and provides example commands to demonstrate some common metadata analysis requests. All software tools described in the article are available with an open-source license via the author's GitHub account. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc157309/
- The Portal to Texas History: Technololgy Overview
- This presentation discusses the technology utilized for The Portal to Texas History. It outlines the infrastructure for managing digital content and gives an overview of how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries built and maintains The Portal to Texas History. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc132983/
- UNT Libraries Digital Infrastructure
- This presentation discusses the digital infrastructure of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. It gives a timeline of the UNT Libraries' digital projects with examples. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc132982/
- Open Access Initiatives at UNT
- This presentation discusses Open Access (OA) initiatives at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include information on the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) publishing addendum, the UNT OA policy, the annual UNT OA Symposium, events for International OA Week, and the UNT Digital Library and UNT Scholarly Works repositories. It also introduces new initiatives including the Data Management Tool (DMPTool), the UNT Data Repository, and the Data Lifecycle Curation Team. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122178/
- Content Divide: Africa and the Global Knowledge Footprint
- This presentation discusses Africa and the global knowledge footprint. Abstract: In line with issues in international information, panel members aim to discuss the global knowledge footprint from a unique and distinct perspective. Framed here as 'content divide,' the focus is to present an international comparative analysis of knowledge production using scientific/technical research, and patent outputs of individual countries and regions across the world. The approach places emphasis on the connection between gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) and research performance mainly by higher education institutions; innovation activities using patent registration as one key indicator, and the role of national education and research network (NREN) as key enabler to foster research productivity. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122171/
- Content Divide: Africa and the Global Knowledge Footprint Sponsored by: SIG/III
- This paper discusses Africa and the global knowledge footprint. Abstract: The purpose of this panel is to discuss the global knowledge output at a macro level with a view to understand key inputs that foster scientific and research performance. Here, knowledge production is limited to scientific and technical journals and patent registrations to gauge the performance of each region and continent the world over. Greater emphasis will be placed to highlight important indicators from the input side that help spur national research and innovation systems in Africa. Defined here as "content divide," panel members focus on key variables that help build scientific and research capabilities of Africa. Closely interrelated variables that will be discussed include (1) access to the global knowledge base, (2) the role of higher education systems (3) national, regional, and global research and education networks (RENs); and (4) gross expenditure on R&D (GERD). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130186/
- Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project
- In this paper, the authors describe research led by Educopia Institute regarding the preservation needs for digitized and born-digital newspapers. The 'Chronicles in Preservation' project, builds upon previous efforts (e.g. the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program) to look more broadly at the needs of digital newspapers in all of their diverse and challenging forms. This paper conveys the findings of the first research phase, including substantive survey results regarding digital newspaper curation practices. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc109727/
- Empowering Digital Libraries Users through Combining Taxonomies with Folksonomies
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122175/
- Empowering Digital Libraries Users through Combining Taxonomies with Folksonomies
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122173/
- The Origins of SIG-III and Its 30 Years' Journey: Visions and Reflections
- This presentation discusses the origins of SIG-III and its 30 years' journey. In light of the 75th American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Anniversary Celebration and the 30th celebration of International Information Issues (III), the participants on this panel will discuss the origins of the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) of ASIS&T and its early years. In addition to the reflections of the last 30 years, the authors look forward and discuss the future of the SIG. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130187/
- The Origins of SIG-III and Its 30 Years' Journey: Visions and Reflections
- This paper discusses a panel on the origins of the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and its early years. In addition to the reflections of the last 30 years, Toni Carbo (one of the co-founders of SIG-III), Nadia Caidi (SIG-III Advisory board member), Anatoliy Gruzd (Social Media Administrator), Daniel Alemneh (SIG-III Chair), and Abebe Rorissa (SIG-III Chair-elect) look forward and discuss the future of the SIG-III including strategies to facilitate collaborations and information exchanges globally. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122172/
- Repurposing Existing Digital Resources and Smoothing Interdisciplinary Communication: Environmental Policy Collection Development
- This paper accompanies a poster presentation discussing repurposing existing digital resources and smoothing interdisciplinary communication. Given the proliferation of scholarly digital contents, it has become increasingly difficult for researchers to find relevant contents on their own, not to mention related, disciplines. The situation is even worse in interdisciplinary fields such as environmental sciences. Many academic libraries provide services to support the creation, organization, management, use, and reuse of digital contents. This poster describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' initiative to provide digital infrastructure and stewardship in order to ensure long-term access to the resources collected. The preliminary results from usage and related statistics analysis suggest significant research and educational impact of the Environmental Policy Collection. Based on the UNT Libraries' experience in integrating heterogeneous digital resources from diverse sources and providing seamless access, this paper describes guidelines for future digital collection development, and make recommendations for further study of collection development strategies. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122174/
- Repurposing Existing Digital Resources and Smoothing Interdisciplinary Communication: Environmental Policy Collection Development
- This poster presents discussion on repurposing existing digital resources and smoothing interdisciplinary communication. The digital environment has now introduced new resource types, new partners, and new user expectations into the current information landscape. Given the proliferation of scholarly digital contents, researchers increasingly need ways to facilitate their research while at the same time promoting scholarly communication within and beyond their own domains. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries are working to identify, collect, organize, and manage digital resources in various disciplines. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122176/
- UNT Libraries: Open Access Fund Research Report
- This report discusses Open Access (OA) funds created at universities in order to assist faculty authors with Article Processing Charges (APCs). Building on the research initiatives of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), thirty North American universities' OA fund initiatives were reviewed on their sponsors, eligibility, reimbursement criteria, and stipulations related to the fund. In addition, fifteen OA journal funding models and twelve hybrid journal funding models were reviewed on their average APCs and their licensing policies. This report serves as a framework for building upon emerging best practices and outlining possible approaches and considerations for the University of North Texas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc111007/
- Improving Access: Texas Topographic Map Project
- In this presentation, the author gives the background, goals, process, challenges, and next steps of the Texas Topographic Map Project. For this project, the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit is digitizing topographic maps to be included in The Portal to Texas History. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86933/
- Metadata Quality Enhancement for Large Digital Collections: Web Browser Automation with Selenium IDE
- This poster discusses metadata quality enhancement for large digital collections. Creating and maintaining accurate descriptive metadata for digital objects is one of the best ways to connect with digital library users and maintain those connections over the long term. Good metadata empowers users to not only discover exactly what they searched for, but also to locate relevant resources that they did not expect to find. Metadata quality characteristics for digital libraries depend on many factors, including: the types of resources the repository offers and the users' needs, which vary across the spectrum of user communities. The metadata quality issue is particularly acute if there are multiple institutions participating in collaborative digital projects that employ diverse naming schemes for their documents and files. Furthermore, harvesting large sets of documents from open repositories presents a number of challenges for creating accurate descriptive metadata. For example, metadata schema do not always map well, creating disconnects when published in the local repository. In the aforementioned cases, substantial rework is usually required to create descriptive data that meets local repository standards. The University of North Texas (UNT) digital libraries group utilizes various tools and mechanisms to ensure metadata consistency and precision across all digital resources. Pre-populated controlled vocabulary terms in its Web-based dashboard editing interface enable metadata operators to easily select standard values via drop-down menus and auto-suggest for text input fields. In addition, careful mapping prior to ingest facilitates accurate conversions among various metadata element sets. Crosswalks also facilitate exporting metadata records to other systems. To support these activities - in cases where post-ingest metadata normalization will enhance recall and precision for its digital objects - the UNT Libraries recently implemented Selenium IDE as a tool for streamlining the process of editing large sets of metadata records. Created by the Web development community in order to simplify the process of testing Web applications, Selenium IDE is a Firefox browser plug-in that provides an integrated development environment for creating, debugging, and running Web browser automation scripts. This poster discusses the complex set of tools and actions required to maintain usable and sustainable digital collections and demonstrate how Selenium IDE facilitates metadata editing for large digital collections by automating a range of data entry tasks. Any institution that employs a content management system with a Web-based metadata editing interface can potentially benefit from Selenium IDE's automation capabilities. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86138/
- Outreach and Collaboration: Strategies for Digital Repositories
- This presentation discusses strategies for digital repositories. The University of North Texas (UNT) launched the UNT Scholarly Works repository in October 2010. Since that time, UNT Scholarly Works has continued to grow as a tool for promoting access to the research, scholarship, and creative activities from the university's community. This digital repository was built into an existing infrastructure and its increasing growth has relied heavily on successful faculty outreach and collaboration within the UNT community. This presentation traces the development of our digital repository and discusses strategies for reaching faculty, developing relationships within an organization and beyond, and collaboration to support digital repositories and promote open access. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86159/
- Suggestions for Effective Collaboration on Digital Projects
- This presentation discusses suggestions for effective collaboration on digital projects. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit regularly collaborates with other departments, campus entities, and external institutions. The Digital Projects Unit currently has over two hundred partners of various kinds contributing to the more than 260,000 digital objects in their system. This presentation will discuss procedures and techniques that can help to streamline collaborative projects, and outline some of the concerns that institutions may want to keep in mind when starting similar projects. The presenters will focus on providing suggestions to help others have more successful collaborative digital projects including: considerations at the initial point of contact, managing the practical aspects of the process to make digitization run smoothly, and the benefits of collaborative projects for participants and the users that access their digital items. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc93301/
- Lifecycle Management of ETDs: Toward A Collaborative Approach To Stakeholders' Involvement In ETDs Curation
- This presentation discusses the management and curation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). It highlights and discusses the early findings of an IMLS-funded project on Lifecycle Management of ETDs. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86158/
- "Mapping the Southwest": UNT-UTA Collaborative Project
- This presentation discusses a collaborative project between the University of North Texas (UNT) and the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Mapping the Southwest is a 3-year project (2010 to 2013) funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) We the People grant. For this project, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries partner with the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Library's Special Collections to digitize 5,000 historically-significant (mostly) rare maps. The collection includes maps dating from 1493 to the present and features noted cartographers. While containing maps of all parts of the world, the collection particularly emphasizes the region of the Gulf Coast and the Greater Southwest, which has been defined as the area comprising the state of Texas and the other southwestern states annexed by the United States after the U.S. War with Mexico of 1846-1848. All of the materials digitized for this grant project will be available online for free public access through The Portal to Texas History. More than 1,000 items are already available at http://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/UTAM/browse/. The authors have registered almost 20,000 uses, and as the authors complete the project, the authors expect even more users around the world to access this new collection. In addition to showcasing the cartography of the region, the Mapping the Southwest project seeks to promote best practices and to advance the capacity of academic libraries to reliably curate, preserve, and provide seamless access to historic maps, atlases, and related wide-format items. This presentation provides information on the project's background, deliverables, workflow, and major areas of activity. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86156/
- Lessons Learned: Digitization of Cooke County Ledgers
- This paper describes a grant project to digitize Cooke County, Texas ledgers. The project was funded in part by the National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and involves digitizing and hosting several rare and unique collections representative of the Civil War. The UNT Archives partnered with the UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit (DPU), which managed all stages of the digitization. This paper describes and examines the process the DPU implemented to digitize the Cooke County ledger collection; in doing so, it provides insight into the problems one might encounter, as well as recommendations for institutions that may be considering similar digital projects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83298/
- Providing the ETDs of Today for the Researchers of Tomorrow
- This poster talks about the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)-Lifecycle Management project. This project is collaborative, IMLS-funded research to study the challenges faced by libraries charged with curating and preserving ETD content. It also provides information on the project's background, participants, and intended audience; outline the project's research strategies and community engagement plan; and describe the project's national outcomes and deliverables, namely a toolkit of guidelines, educational workshop materials, and software tools. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77210/
- Rhapsody in Green: ETDs at the University of North Texas
- This presentation discusses electronic theses and dissertations at the University of North Texas (UNT). UNT began mandatory ETDs for both theses and dissertations in fall 1999, making it the 3rd institution in the world to go "electronic" in this way. There have been challenges along the way, but from the very beginning there has been a close and cordial relationship between the Grad School and the Libraries which serves to "book end" the student's ETD experience in a meaningful and productive way. During this session, UNT's ETD process from start to finish will be explained, especially the ways in which the Grad School and the Libraries work together to enhance the lifecycle management of students' research output at UNT. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77212/
- Toward Best Practices in Integrating ETDs and Associated Data: UNT's Approach
- This poster discusses best practices in integrating electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and associated data. A move to an all-digital means of providing ETDs and related academic documents is accelerating their discovery and facilitating their use, value and impact on research. Although different disciplines have different ETD structures and requirements, the UNT digital library infrastructure supports aggregating a variety of digital formats. With enhanced metadata-based and subject-specific search mechanisms, it is now easier than ever to access, browse, use, and reuse scholarly works and associated data that have not been available through traditional publishing alternatives. Recognizing the research value of ETDs and associated contents, this poster demonstrates UNT’s approaches to integrate and provide seamless access to these valuable, often overlooked materials. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77151/
- Supporting Faculty Scholarly Activity
- This presentation is part of a panel discussion titled Academic Libraries as Partners in Research. This presentation discusses how digital libraries can support faculty scholarly activity, with examples and strategies from the UNT Digital Library collections. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc75413/
- TRAC, FDSys and putting it all together
- This presentation discusses TRAC, an open source web-based project management and bug tracking system, and the Federated Digital System (FDSys), an advanced digital system that authenticates, preserves, versions, and provides permanent public access to federal government information. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107766/