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After the Harvest: Preservation, Access, and Researcher Services for the 2016 End of Term Archive: This presentation discusses the End of Term Archive and methods for identifying and selecting in-scope content (including using registries, indices, and crowdsourcing URL nominations ["seeds"] through a web application called the URL Nomination Tool), new strategies for capturing web content (including crawling, browser rendering, and social media tools), access models including both an online portal as well as research datasets for use in computational analysis, and preservation data replication between partners using new export APIs and experimental tools developed as part of the IMLS-funded WASAPI project.
I am not a photographer. One librarian's journey toward understanding FADGI, image quality, and digitization best practices: Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of site visits from over a dozen digitizing institutions across the country, including common tools used and best practices.
Approaches developed to ensure accuracy and consistency of metadata for TRAIL reports: Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses metadata remediation issues within the UNT Libraries TRAIL collection focused on identifying and measuring issues related to incomplete records and creation date discrepancies.
ASIS&T Regional and Student Chapters Annual Report to the Board: This report contains a summary of ASIS&T Regional and Student Chapter activities from 2016-2017.
Authorities: UNT Libraries Digital Collections: Presentation for the 2017 meeting of the IMLS Shareable Authorities Forum. This presentation provides an in-depth look at institutional practices regarding authorities at University of North Texas Libraries.
Automatic Classification of Name Strings in Library Metadata: Presentation for the 2017 Code4Lib South Central Conference. This presentation describes how a machine learning model can help with classifying name types in library metadata.
Becoming a Trustworthy Digital Repository: Some Thoughts: This presentation discuss the process that the UNT Libraries used to complete a TRAC self-audit published in Fall 2015
Beyond Text: Best Practices for Cataloging Music-ETDs and Associated Audio-Visual Materials: This poster discusses issues and considerations in describing and integrating ETDs and associated content.
The Bibliographical Maker Movement: Paper offering an extended discourse on the full range of activities comprising the bibliographical maker movement, which in recent years has coalesced around the idea that maker culture may be employed to enhance our understanding of not only the history but also the future of the book.
Born Digital Newspaper Collections: Presentation for the 2017 Dodging the Memory Hole Conference. This presentation provides an overview of the ingest of Texas Press Association PDFs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program at UNT Libraries.
Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods: Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods [VRA 2023]: Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Visual Resources Association Conference held in San Antonio, Texas.
Bringing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) to the Point of Use: Metadata vs. Full-Text Controversy: This presentation discusses the increase of URLS within electronic theses and dissertations at UNT, and a comparison of queries through metadata and full-text discovery.
Building an Online Academic Profile: Presentation for the Toulouse Graduate School workshop series discussing online academic profiles.
Carry On: One Digitization Lab's Journey Through Temporary Displacement: Presentation on the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) upgrades at the University of North Texas Library which required the displacement of the Digital Projects Lab staff and students from their lab for an estimated six weeks. With little access to digitization equipment, the lab planned to continue running during that period. By presenting the preparation and planning for the move, the logistics of the transition, and the results from the experience, the authors hope to share their strategies for digitization lab mobility and continued, off-site productivity. It was presented at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries held virtually on May 24-26, 2021.
A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections: This paper presents a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
Collaborative Authorship as Peer Mentorship: This article discusses the process of collaborative authorship as mentorship, demonstrated through the 3D Printed History of the Book Education (3Dhotbed) project.
Collaborative Preservation Scaled to Serve the Texas Press Association: This presentation provides an overview of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and its partnership with the Texas Press Association archive.
Collecting and Preserving the Federal Web: End of Term Archive – 2008, 2012, 2016: Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management as part of the panel "Big Data and Government Information." This presentation describes the work of the End of Term Archive to preserve the federal web.
Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit: This paper provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process. This paper also contains findings specifically related to the digital newspaper and news video content.
Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit: This presentation provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process.
Creating, Curating, and Preserving Digital Collections: Preserving the Digital Heritage: Presented at the 2018 Ke Au Hou Pacific Librarianship Conference. This presentation describes a pre-conference workshop that provides attendees with a better understanding of the landscape related to digital preservation and access among cultural heritage institutions, key components in the ongoing process of preserving digital information, and the building blocks of digital preservation systems.
Data, Information, and Knowledge Management: University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University Institutional Repositories Initiatives / Experiences: This paper describes a best practice forum to convey how the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University Libraries facilitate scholarly communications endeavors related to knowledge management.
Data Readiness and the Digital Public Library of America: Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the work of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Working Group, resources for preparing data, and the experiences of the Houston Public Library.
Decision Trees for Answering User Feedback: Presentation on how feedback is handled by the University of North Texas Digital Library, including the management system, staffing resources, and some historical data. It focuses on the creation of decision trees to guide staff members through answering different types of questions and requests. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Developing a Metadata Ecosystem at the UNT Libraries: Presentation for Drexel University's "Metadata Mixers" series describing some of the features and tools that UNT Libraries have been implementing for metadata creation and assessment in the Digital Collections and how they all work together to support metadata activities.
Developing an Outreach Plan for UNT Scholarly Works: Presentation for the 2016 Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Conference, discussing the details of how an outreach plan was created for the UNT Scholarly Works collection using institutional data to identify gaps in university participation.
Developing the DPLA Texas Service Hub, v.2. A collaboration to build the next generation aggregator for Texas: Presentation sharing the goals and mission of a pilot between the University of North Texas and the Texas Digital Library to develop a prototype of a new service hub for Texas to provide metadata from collections across the state to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Digital Archiving Practices for Linguists: UNT Digital Library: Presentation the 2018 Computational Resources on South Asian Languages Symposium. This presentation describes how linguistic resources are made accessible through the University of North Texas Libraries digital collections.
Digitization at the Portal to Texas History: The presentation introduces the process of digitizing material into the Portal to Texas History. It was presented at the 2020 Texas Association of Museums Conference. The history of the repository, digitization standards, and workflows are discussed along with some lessons learned.
Digitization in Three Strokes: Digital Commonwealth, Minnesota Digital Library, and The Portal to Texas History: This presentation is part of the panel "Digitization in Three Strokes: Digital Commonwealth, Minnesota Digital Library, and The Portal to Texas History," from DPLAfest 2016. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History project through the Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program.
DIY API: A Sierra-Based, Homegrown Catalog API: This presentation with notes provides an overview of the development process for building a local API using Sierra catalog data. This overview includes a discussion of terms, history of the project, and example applications.
Documenting Institutional Knowledge Through TRAC Self-Audit: A Case Study: Book chapter on the Trusted Repository Audit and Checklist (TRAC) process through the lens of contextual dimensions within knowledge management, using the case study of the University of North Texas Libraries.
Doing 3D: Implementations and Best Practices in Applying 3D Technologies Across Higher Education: Presentation for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference, Library and Information Technology Association session. This presentation describes current methods for 3D scanning and modeling, and how this technology has been implemented through three different projects involving higher education.
A Dream of Spring: Creation of an IR Managers Forum: Lightning round presentation for the 2018 Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition. This presentation describes the development of the Institutional Repository Managers Forum.
The End of Term Archive: Collaboratively Preserving the United States Government Web: Presentation the 2018 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference. This presentation describes the End of Term archive project and its activities after the 2016 end of term.
End of Term Web Archive--2008, 2012, 2016: Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, including updates and challenges from the 2016 harvest.
End of Term Web Archive: The What, The Why, The How: Presentation for Data Rescue Denton. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, with a comparison of the 2008, 2012, and 2016 harvests.
End of Term Web Archives: 2008, 2012, 2016 ...: This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive. The EOT Web Archive program is a multi-institution effort that aims to comprehensively capture and save U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. Beginning in 2008, the EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008 and 2012. The collaborative program is currently preparing for the 2016 electoral season.
Enhancing UNT's Presence in Sub-Saharan Africa: Building Partnership with Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions: Paper accompanying a presentation at the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses enhancing UNT's presence in Sub-Saharan Africa and building partnerships with Ethiopian higher education institutions.
EPIC: A Proposed Model for Approaching Metadata Improvement: Abstract: This paper outlines iterative steps involved in metadata improvement within a digital library: Evaluate, Prioritize, Identify, and Correct (EPIC). The process involves evaluating metadata values system-wide to identify errors; prioritizing errors according to local criteria; identifying records containing a particular error; and correcting individual records to eliminate the error. Based on the experiences at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, we propose that these cyclical steps can serve as a model for organizations that are planning and conducting metadata quality assessment.
EPIC: A Proposed Model for Approaching Metadata Improvement: Presentation for the 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research proposing a model that delineates the components of metadata improvement as an iterative cycle, based on the work and experiences at UNT.
Expanding the ETD Collection to Capture More Complete Contents of Student Works: Presentation for the 2016 US Electronic Theses and Dissertation Association Conference describing the use of additional repository collections to capture supplemental works and make visible the labor of producing a thesis or dissertation.
Expanding the Scale of PDF Preservation to Accomodate a State Press Association through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program: This presentation discusses the development of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program as it expands to include larger collaborations, such as the Texas Press Association Archive.
Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries: Presentation for the 2018 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference. This presentation describes work underway at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to design and implement interfaces and tools for analyzing metadata quality in their local metadata editing environment.
Experiments with Metadata Quality Interfaces: This presentation provides an overview of the design features and goals of newly-developed metadata quality interfaces in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections. Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Exploratory Analysis of Born-Digital Newspaper Content: This paper reports on exploratory investigations by the Texas Digital Newspaper Program to understand aggregate patterns in the generation of born-digital news editions by analyzing technical metadata extracted from the 3 million pages currently in the preservation collection.
Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections: This presentation describes a comparison of two web archives of the US Federal web domain collected at the end of the Bush administration (2008) and the end of the first Obama administration (2012). This exploratory analysis tracks changes in media types, TLDs, domains, and subdomains.
Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections: This abstract describes the presentation "Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections," comparing two web archives of the US Federal web domain collected at the end of the Bush administration (2008) and the end of the first Obama administration (2012). This exploratory analysis tracks changes in media types, TLDs, domains, and subdomains.
Exploring our Collections: The Many Colors of the UNT Digital Library: Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter.

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