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Theses and Dissertations from Print to ETD: The Nuances of Preserving and Accessing Those in Music
Book chapter discussing the unique challenges of digitizing music theses and dissertations.
Toward Best Practices in Integrating ETDs and Associated Data: UNT's Approach
Poster presented at the 2012 Texas ETD Annual Conference. This poster describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries approach toward best practices in integrating ETDs and associated data.
Towards Building a Collection of Web Archiving Research Articles
Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly. This presentation discusses building a collection of web archiving research articles.
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.
Tracing Our Global Connections: A Bibliographic Analysis of UNT Digital Library Item Usage Among Global ETDs
Presentation at the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. This presentation provides an overview of a bibliographic analysis of University of North Texas Digital Library items used in global electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Transport Neutral Digital Object Replication
Paper for the 2011 Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Archiving Conference. This paper discusses a project by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to implement a simple transport neutral digital object replication strategy in its production digital repository infrastructure.
Transport Neutral Digital Object Replication [Poster]
This poster discusses digital object replication. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has implemented a simple transport neutral digital object replication strategy in its production digital repository infrastructure. This strategy is built with the same ideals as other Curation Micro-Services, in respect to lightweight, software independent specifications coupled to provide a set of services for digital repositories, this approach to replication has allowed the UNT Libraries the flexibility of multiple storage infrastructures and the reassurance the objects are being fully validated as they are replicated throughout the repository.
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.
Understanding Repository Growth at the University of North Texas: A Case Study
This paper discusses a case study on understanding repository growth at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Understanding User Discovery of ETD: Metadata or Full-Text, How Did They Get There?
Presentation for the 2015 US Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses understanding user discovery of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and whether users make use of metadata records when searching or full text searching.
Unity in Diversity, ETDs at UNT: and a look towards BibFrame
Presentation for the 2014 Texas Music Library Association Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at the University of North Texas (UNT) and BibFrame.
The University of North Texas Libraries' Portal to Texas History: Archival Challenges and Solutions
This paper discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History's archival challenges and solutions. The UNT Texas History Portal Project strives to balance the goals of accessibility of information and long-term preservation of digital objects. This poster details the system that automates the collection of metadata records to coordinate access to web-viewable files and preservation of archived master files.
The University of North Texas Libraries' Portal to Texas History: Archival Challenges and Solutions [Poster]
Poster presented at the 2004 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). This poster details the system that automates the collection of metadata records to coordinate access to web-viewable files and preservation of archived master files.
The University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library: Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Support a Modern Research Library
Presentation given at the University of Florida on the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library and leveraging digital library infrastructure to support a modern research library.
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.
UNT Digital Libraries: Past, Present and Future
This presentation gives an overview of various digital initiatives by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
UNT Digital Library Storage Architectures for Digital Collections
This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library Program and possible solutions for sudden growth in digital content.
UNT Libraries Digital Collections
Presentation prepared for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Government Documents Special Interest Section (GD-SIS). This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) digital collections.
UNT Libraries Digital Collections: An Overview
Presentation for a meeting at Texas A & M University. This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries digital collections.
UNT Libraries Digital Collections: Making our data work harder for us
Presentation for the 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Annual Meeting on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital collections and making data work harder.
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.
UNT Libraries Digital Infrastructure: Behind the Scenes
Presentation for the 2015 ARMA Annual Conference. This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital infrastructure.
UNT Libraries Digital Projects Lab
Presented at the 2017 International Digital Preservation Day. This presentation discusses the workflow procedures of the UNT Libraries Digital Projects Lab.
UNT Libraries: Open Access Fund Research Report
Report for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. This research report discusses open access funds at universities and article processing charges (APCs).
UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document
The UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document is designed to supplement and provide extended reference to the UNT Libraries’ TRAC Audit Checklist (Appendix A), which outlines the requirements of a Trusted Digital Repository. The self assessment of the UNT Libraries and its Digital Collections encompasses an evaluation of its associated policies, procedures, workflows, modelling, and technical infrastructure in the TRAC audit process.
UNT Scholarly Works
Presentation for the University of North Texas (UNT) School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) 5740 course, Introduction to Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses the UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository and gives a brief history, submissions and workflow processes, copyright and publisher considerations, and open access issues.
The UNTL Metadata Guidelines: [Version-2, 2006]
Report on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries metadata guidelines. This report discusses describing digital objects in a consistent way that ensures long-term preservation and that provides for optimum searching, discovery and retrieval of information by users of our heterogeneous digital collections.
UNT's Theses and Dissertations Retrospective Digitization Project
Poster presented at the 2014 United States (U.S) Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Annual Conference. This poster discusses the University of North Texas' (UNTs) retrospective digitization project of theses and dissertations.
Updates from the 3DHotbed Collection
This presentation highlights the progress of the 3D History of the Book Education (3Dhotbed) collection. The team has focused on creating workflows, promoting the collection, adding new material, and assessment of the collection by users. It was presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries held in Austin, Texas.
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.
URL Nomination Tool
Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IICP) General Assembly. This presentation discusses the URL nomination tool.
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.
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.
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.
The Value of Open Access to Undergraduate Research
Article describing the importance and value of open access to undergraduate research.
Vendor Relations: From Both Sides
This presentation discusses vendor services and relations both as a service provider and as a customer of vendor services, in relation to digital libraries.
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.
Web-Archiving: Collecting and Preserving Important Web-based National Resources
Presentation for the National Archives and Library of Ethiopia on web-archiving and collecting and preserving important web-based national resources.
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.
Web Archiving Workshop: Tools Overview
This presentation offers a brief discussion of web archiving tools. Tools include Wget, HTTrack, Heritrix, Wayback, and NutchWAX.
Web Browser Automation With Selenium IDE
This Tech Talk presentation discusses web browser automation with Selenium IDE. The presenter covers the basics of Selenium IDE, examples of its use, and a demonstration.
Web Curation within Institutions: Dealing with Researchers
Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IICP) General Assembly. This presentation discusses web curation within institutions and dealing with researchers.
Web Harvesting in Support of Faculty Research and Environmental Science Digital Library Development
This poster presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' process for harvesting web materials and creating a digital library collection with the data obtained.
What Makes a Good Web Archive?
Presentation for the 2014 Best Practices Exchange Annual Conference. This presentation discusses what makes a good web archive.
What's Brewing at UNT: Final Report
This report documents the What's Brewing at UNT project funded through the 2016 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the What's Brewing at UNT project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Workflow Tools for Digital Curation
This article discusses workflow tools for digital curation.
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.
XML to Lucene to SRW
Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report documents procedures of parsing XML records into Lucene index and making those records available via SRW.
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