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- Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms
- This poster presentation was presented at the 2008 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference (Work in Progress session). The poster discusses that maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions, and demonstrates some of the tools and quality assurance mechanisms used at the UNT Libraries. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39319/
- Open Access and Scholarly Communication: The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship
- This document is a proposal for a panel discussion at the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG/III), part of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). There are five panelists listed with brief descriptions of their topics. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67643/
- Developing the ICT Infrastructure for Africa: Overview of Barriers to Harnessing the Full Power of the Internet
- This article discusses developing the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for Africa. Abstract: The synergies of numerous emerging trends are shaping creation, access, use and preservation of information resources. The digital library environment provides scholars with access to more diverse and previously unavailable contents that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations. Although the uses of Internet technologies provide new directions for scholarship, there are discrepancies among nations and regions. These technologies have not been fully exploited in Africa in particular. As research and scientific inquiry depend on both the availability of heterogeneous resources from multiple sources and their openness to easy and continued access, addressing the universal access is paramount. This article discusses and provides an overview of some of the barriers or principal factors most likely to influence Africa's efforts in harnessing the full power of the Internet. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38890/
- Ensuring Universal Access for the Global Information Flow: Responding to the Demands of Scholarship in the Digital Age
- This presentation was presented in Session 6.4 Reports of Current Research (Juried Papers), at the 2005 ALISE Conference. It summarizes current situations and developing trends in information technologies. It raises an important issue in the development of globalization which emphasizes the efficiency of modern technologies in delivering information to people around the world. Africa is used as a case to illustrate how local policies have played important roles in the process of information globalization. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29293/
- Open Access and Scholarly Communication: The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship
- This paper discusses open access and scholarly communication. The synergies of numerous emerging trends such as the development of open source software, global and explosive growth of social networking, interinstitutional data sharing, cross discipline collaborations, etc. provide new directions for scholarship. The rapid pace of development poses new threats and challenges to scholarly communication as well. Open access is increasingly viewed as a popular alternative to traditional distribution methods. Despite the overwhelming agreement regarding the concept of open access, there are however, significant differences and debate about a number of issues. This panel brings together diverse stakeholders, explores the current landscape and future direction of scholarly communication, and reflects on the overall implications on global scholarship. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67619/
- Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film
- This article discusses automating the semiotic analysis of film, including visual representation, search and retrieval, and ways of seeing. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc71794/
- The Functional Ontology of Filmic Documents
- This book chapter discusses the functional ontology of filmic documents. The authors examine a few phases of probing of filmic documents, and the relationship between structure and meaning. The authors have taken the liberty of sketching the earlier phases and of presenting the most recent in somewhat more detail. Considerations of the early phases, among other issues of document use, led to the functional ontology construction as a foundation for this probing and for wider concerns within the arena of messages, meanings, and uses. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83796/
- A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content
- This paper describes the design and development of a learning object repository for a new statewide higher education initiative. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is funding the redesign of large undergraduate courses; the redesigned courses are intended to improve student learning, retention and outcomes. The learning object repository stores and provides access to content from these courses. Content has been decomposed into discrete learning object varying in levels of granularity. The paper provides details on the proof-of-concept implementation developed in Phase I of a two-phase project. Special attention is given to key aspects such as the levels of granularity, metadata, technology, and user testing. ssues that emerged in Phase I are informing all facets of the next iteration of the repository. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38885/
- The Apiary Project: High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data
- This presentation discusses research on high-throughput workflow for computer-assisted human parsing of biological specimen label data. This is part of the Apiary Project, a collaboration of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc81372/
- Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries
- This article discusses research on collaboration and crowdsourcing. Abstract: Purpose - This study aims to understand key features of existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and/or sustaining multilingual information access for digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach - A case study approach was applied to examine four American multilingual digital libraries: Project Gutenburg, Meeting of Frontiers, The International Children's Digital Library, and the Latin American Open Archives Portal. This examination used a framework derived from digital library evaluation practice. The missions, goals, funding, partners, users, collections, services, and technologies of these digital libraries were analyzed to present their key multilingual features. The collaboration and crowdsourcing characteristics were highlighted and discussed. Findings - These four multilingual libraries benefit substantially, both in the creation of the library and in its access, from the collaboration of groups domestic and international with different language expertise. For building the multilingual collection and services, some libraries involved both staff and users. For multilingual access to the collection, however, none of the libraries used machine translation or cross-language information retrieval technologies. Research limitations/implications - The four cases are all publicly available digital libraries in the United States. Their features may not be applicable to digital libraries in other countries or to commercial digital information services. Practical Implications - With the advancement of machine translation technologies and the wide application of social media, multilingual digital libraries may have even better opportunities to sustain their multilingual capabilities through crowdsourcing and the application of new technologies. Originality/value - This study summarizes the key features of four existing multilingual digital libraries. It provides insights into important factors for building successful multilingual digital libraries. The suggested strategies may help digital library developers to design appropriate multilingual information access services. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96822/
- Metadata Records Translation And Evaluation for Multilingual Information Access
- This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) in Toluca, Mexico. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96783/
- Multilingual Information Access for Digital Libraries - The Metadata Records Translation Project
- This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Wuhan University, Beijing Normal University, Nankai University, and the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access for digital libraries and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96661/
- Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access
- This presentation discusses an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA). The investigation consists of two stages. In Stage One, the authors conducted a content analysis to identify resources used in 145 research papers and reports in two subfields of IIA; and in Stage Two, the authors carried out an online survey of IIA researchers to understand resource-sharing channels and the researchers' perspectives on resource sharing. The results demonstrate that IIA researchers make use of various types of resources developed by others. Most of these resources are knowledgeable sources or software systems that are freely available online. However, IIA researchers encounter various difficulties during the course of resource acquisition and use. The study suggests that a resource management system built on a well-established knowledge-management model could greatly facilitate the creation, sharing, and use of resources in the IIA community. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc132971/
- Toward a Unified Retrieval Outcome Analysis Framework for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
- This paper proposes a Retrieval Outcome Analysis Framework, or ROA Framework, to systematically evaluate retrieval performance of Cross-Language Information Retrieval systems. The ROA framework goes beyond TREC-type retrieval evaluation methodology by including procedures focusing on individual queries, especially difficult queries. The framework is comprised of four interrelated components: (1) Overall System Performance Evaluation, (2) Query Categorization, (3) Translation Analysis, and (4) Individual Query Analysis. An example of applying the framework is discussed in detail. The author believes the proposed framework would be especially useful for the development of real world Cross-Language Information Retrieval systems because the evaluation guided by the framework has the potential to discover causes behind poor retrieval performance. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc132969/
- Cross-language search: The case of Google Language Tools
- This article discusses cross-language search. Abstract: This paper presents a case study of Google Language Tools, especially its cross-language search service. Cross-language search integrates machine translation (MT) and cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) technologies and allows Web users to search and read pages written in languages different from their search terms. In addition to cross-language search, Google Language Tools provides various language support services to multilingual information access. Our study examines the functions of Google Language Tools and the performance of its cross-language search. The results and analysis show that Google Language Tools are useful for Web users. Its cross-language search service provides quality query translation while the automatic translation of result pages needs further improvement. The paper suggests that cross-language search could be used by different types of Web users. The authors also discuss the strategies and important issues with regard to implementing multilingual information access services for information systems. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96824/
- Instructional Design Strategies for Teaching Technological Courses Online
- Abstract: This paper describes different instructional design strategies for teaching computer technological courses online. Two of the three courses discussed in the paper have been taught on the Internet for over five years. The course content, assignments, and interaction have been designed and implemented based on the distinct challenges of the courses, their learning objectives, and the computing backgrounds of students. Students' evaluations of these courses are presented. The authors discuss important factors that may affect teaching and learning effectiveness for distance education. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96663/
- Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access
- This paper reports an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA). The investigation consists of two stages. In Stage One, the authors conducted a content analysis to identify resources used in 145 research papers and reports in two subfields of IIA; and in Stage Two, the authors carried out an online survey of IIA researchers to understand resource-sharing channels and the researchers' perspectives on resource sharing. The results demonstrate that IIA researchers make use of various types of resources developed by others. Most of these resources are knowledgeable sources or software systems that are freely available online. However, IIA researchers encounter various difficulties during the course of resource acquisition and use. The study suggests that a resource management system built on a well-established knowledge-management model could greatly facilitate the creation, sharing, and use of resources in the IIA community. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc132970/
- Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History
- In this article, performance of online translation systems including Google, Systran and Bing on translating metadata records derived from the digital library- Portal to Texas History- is manually evaluated using four measures: Fluency, Adequacy, Incorrect Translation, and Missing Translation. The authors propose exploring multi-engine machine translation for improving the quality of translation and point out three possible strategies of implementing multilingual information access in digital libraries applying machine translation of metadata records. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96820/
- A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation
- This article discusses a preliminary evaluation study of metadata records machine translation. This study is partially supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant LG-06-10-0162-10. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate freely available machine translation (MT) services' performance in translating metadata records. Design/methodology/approach: Randomly selected metadata records were translated from English to Chinese using Google, Bing, and SYSTRAN MT systems. These translations were then evaluated using a five point scale for both fluency and adequacy. Missing count (words not translated) and incorrect count (words incorrectly translated) were also recorded. Findings: Concerning both fluency and adequacy, Google and Bing's translations of more than 70 percent of test data received scores equal to or greater than three, representative of "non-native Chinese" and "much coverage," respectively. SYSTRAN scored lowest in both measures. However, these differences were not statistically significant. A Pearson correlation analysis demonstrated a strong relationship (r=0.86) between fluency and adequacy. Missing count and incorrect count strongly correlated with fluency and adequacy. Originality/value: Most existing digital collections can be accessed in English alone. Few digital collections in the USA support multilingual information access (MLIA) that enables users of differing languagees to search, browse, recognize and use information in the collections. Human translation is one solution, but it is neither time nor cost effective for most libraries. This study serves as a first step to understand the performance of current MT systems and to design effective and efficient MLIA services for digital collections. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96821/
- UNT at TREC 2004: Question Answering Combining Multiple Evidences
- This paper discusses Question Answering (QA) combining multiple evidences. QA aims at identifying answers to users' natural language questions. A QA system can release the users from digesting large amounts of text in order to locate particular facts or numbers. The research has drawn great attention from several disciplines such as information retrieval, information extraction, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. TREC QA track has provided comparable QA system evaluation on a set of test questions since 1999. The degree of difficulty of the test questions has increased substantially in recent two years, which push the research toward applying more sophisticated strategies and better understanding of English texts. This article discusses this research. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96842/
- Chinese Information Retrieval Using Lemur: NTCIR-5 CIR Experiments at UNT
- This paper discusses Chinese information retrieval using Lemur. Abstract: This paper describes our participation in NTCIR-5 Chinese Information Retrieval (IR) evaluation. The main purpose is to evaluate Lemur, a freely available information retrieval toolkit. Our results showed that Lemur could provide above average performance on most of the runs. We also compared manual queries vs. automatic queries for Chinese IR. The results show that manually generated queries did not have much effect on IR performance. More analysis will be carried out to discover causes behind hard topics and ways to improve the overall retrieval performance. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96829/
- Chinese QA and CLQA: NTCIR-5 QA Experiments at UNT
- Abstract: This paper describes our participation in the NTCIR-5 CLQA task. Three runs were officially submitted for three subtasks: Chinese Question Answering, English-Chinese Question Answering, and Chinese-English Question Answering. We expanded their TREC experimental QA system EagleQA this year to include Chinese QA and Cross-Language QA capabilities. Various information retrieval and natural language processing tools were incorporated with their home-built programs such as Answer Type Identification, Sentence Extraction, and Answer Finding to find answers to the test questions. Future development will focus on investigating effective question translation and answer finding solutions. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96830/
- UNT 2005 TREC QA Participation: Using Lemur as IR Search Engine
- This paper reports the authors' TREC 2005 QA participation. The authors' QA system Eagle QA developed last year was expanded and modified for this year's QA experiments. Particularly, the authors used Lemur 4.1 as the Information Retrieval (IR) Engine this year to find documents that may contain answers for the test questions from the document collection. The authors' result shows Lemur did a reasonable job on finding relevant documents. But certainly there is room for further improvement. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc96841/
- The Semantics of Semantic Interoperability: A Two-Dimensional Approach for Investigating Issues of Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries
- This paper discusses issues of semantic interoperability in digital libraries. The networked information environment comprising digital libraries, digital collections, and digital repositories increase people's expectations for information access. Specifically, users anticipate better search capabilities across these networked information resources and the metadata records associated with the resources. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36296/
- Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information
- This article discusses education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information. Purpose: This lecture discusses a philosophy of educating health information professionals in a rapidly changing health care and information environment. Discussion: Education for health information professionals must be based upon a solid foundation of the changing paradigms and trends in health care and health information, as well as technological advances, to produce a well-prepared information workforce to meet the demands of health-related environments. Educational programs should begin with the core principles of library and information sciences and expand in interdisciplinary collaborations. A model of the health care environment is presented to serve as a framework for developing educational programs for health information professionals. Conclusion: Interdisciplinary and collaborative relationships-which merge health care, library and information sciences, and other information-related disciplines-should form the basis of education for health information professionals. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77175/
- [Review] Intellectual Freedom Manual
- This book review discusses the 'Intellectual Freedom Manual', compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) of the American Library Association. The manual is designed to answer practical questions that confront librarians in applying the principles of intellectual freedom to library service. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77170/
- Quality Health Information on the Internet: Developing a Diabetes Pathfinder for the Chinese Population
- This article discusses quality health information on the Internet. A WEb-based bilingual diabetes information pathfinder was created to help the Chinese population access quality health information on the Internet as part of a collaborative outreach project in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. A survey was conducted to identify the demographics, Internet usage, health information needs, and preferences for training sessions of the Chinese population. Breast cancer, diabetes, and hepatitis B were the top three diseases of interest. The process of developing the pathfinder is described from start to finish, and it can serve as a model for the development of others. Pathfinder training sessions also were held. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77176/
- Findings Pertaining to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
- This paper discusses the findings pertaining to the framework for building good digital collections. This paper is part of the three-year interim project report for the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project, summarizing major findings October 2002 through September 2005. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77124/
- Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification
- This paper presents a method for automatic topic identification using an encyclopedic graph derived from Wikipedia. The system is found to exceed the performance of previously proposed machine learning algorithms for topic identification, with an annotation consistency comparable to human annotations. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31022/
- Automatic Keyword Extraction for Learning Object Repositories
- Abstract: This paper describes experiments in metadata generation for learning object repositories. Specifically, the authors present several methods for automatic keyword extraction and evaluate them on a collection of learning objects from an undergraduate history course. The results suggest that automatic keyword extraction is a viable solution for suggesting terms and phrases for metadata annotation. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31003/
- Comparative Assessment of Peer Review: Project Outcomes Report
- This report discusses the Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR) project outcomes. Public funding agencies are required to demonstrate accountability to their government funders (e.g., Congress) as well as to the public. Some agencies - including the US National Science Foundation (NSF) - have used broader societal impacts criteria as part of the review process of grant proposals in order to connect scientific research to societal needs. But these agencies have often encountered questions from scientists and engineers for how to integrate such demands for broader societal impacts into their research proposals. In an effort to help clarify the idea of broader impacts, in 2010 NSF and Congress proposed a list of national needs that NSF-funded research would be required to meet. But was this the best solution? This report discusses the authors' research. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc139466/
- Open Access to UNT Faculty's Scholarly Publications
- This presentation discusses open access policies at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include an introduction to open access, a discussion of open access policies, and implementation ideas for workflow and technology support. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36276/
- The DataRes Research Project on Data Management
- This paper discusses data management. Abstract: The University of North Texas together with the Council on Library and Information Resources, have received $226,786 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two year research project to investigate how the library and information science profession can best respond to emerging needs of research data management in universities. This project will address broad new issues concerning the emerging roles, expectations, and practices arising from requirements announced by NIH, NSF, IMLS and other funding agencies for data management plans as part of proposals. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77194/
- DataRes Project Briefing
- This presentation discusses the DataRes Project. The DataRes Project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), investigates how the Library and Information Science (LIS) profession can best respond to the emerging needs of research data management in universities. DataRes is a collaboration between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, the UNT College of Information, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83317/
- The DataRes Research Project on Data Management
- This poster discusses the DataRes Research Project on Data Management. The DataRes Project, funded by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians grant from the IMLS, investigates how the library and information science (LIS) profession can best respond to emerging needs of research data management in universities. DataRes is a collaboration between the University of North Texas Libraries, the UNT College of Information, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77152/
- Open Access and Scholarly Communication: The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship
- This presentation discusses open access and scholarly communication. The topics include why open access is important, how it impacts scholarly communication, and intellectual property. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67608/
- Teaching Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation Through the Use of a Virtual Lab
- This document accompanies a poster on teaching tools, applications, and infrastructure for digital curation through the use of a virtual lab. Abstract: With an increased demand for digital curation, data management, archiving, and preservation the library and information science community has begun offering new education and training in these fields. A trend in this education is the use of online virtual labs to offer students hands-on experience with the tools and methodologies inherent to these fields. At the University of North Texas, the authors are also developing a four course education program in digital curation and data management including a course called 'Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation' that employs a virtual lab component. This paper discusses the first offering of the course; several challenges the authors faced; and the new strategies developed to address these issues and improve the course and virtual lab for the next offering. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146564/
- Scaffolding for Digital Curation Education: A One Week Unix Fundamentals Course
- This poster discusses scaffolding for digital curation eductaion. As the demand for digital curation skills continues to grow, so does the need for an efficient way to teach digital curators how to interact with Unix based on computers and servers at the console and terminal level. The major challenge with teaching these skills is the amount of time it takes for instruction since there are too many fundamentals to teach in a weekend workshop yet not enough for an entire course. Thus, the authors proposed a week long scaffolding course to teach students the fundamental tools and processes to successfully interact in a Unix environment. The authors will teach students how to perform commands such as changing directories, moving and copying files, compressing folders, and altering permissions in the Unix environment. This will give students some basic preparation for digital curation work and for the (4) intermediate and advanced courses in digital curation and data management offered by the iCamp Project at the University of North Texas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc139456/
- Teaching Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation Through the Use of a Virtual Lab
- This poster discusses teaching tools, applications, and infrastructure for digital curation through the use of a virtual lab. With an increased demand for digital curation, data management, archiving, and preservation the library and information science community has begun offering new education and training in these fields. A trend in this education is the use of online virtual labs to offer students hands-on experience with the tools and methodologies inherent to these fields. At the University of North Texas (UNT), the authors are also developing a four course education program in digital curation and data management including a course called 'Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation' that employs a virtual lab component. This poster discusses the first offering of the course; several challenges that the authors faced; and the new strategies developed to address these issues and improve the course and virtual lab for the next offering. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146591/
- Professional Learning Communities & Personal Learning Networks in Information Science
- This presentation is part of a Doctoral Student Special Interest Group (SIG) panel discussion group from the 2012 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Doctoral students discuss various ways to keep up with changes in information science and technology through developing professional learning communities. Continuing education and professional development requires connectivity today more than ever due to new trends in information delivery, such as user-generated content, social networking, and Web 2.0 communication tools. Each individual can easily be overwhelmed by the vast amount of information and tools available on the Internet. Through collaboration, librarians and information professionals can collectively build a PLN (personal learning network) and a PLC (professional learning community) with a focus on the profession of librarianship and information technology. This panel consists of doctoral students and candidates who have developed both a PLN (personal learning network) and a PLC (professional learning community) through embracing emerging technology tools and collaborating with each other. Examples of their experience exemplify the importance of "extending our reach" and "expanding our horizons". The hierarchy of information has radically changed within the past decade. The goal is to create opportunities that allow doctoral students to explore innovation while adhering to the core values and traditions of the profession. Through a variety of interactive techniques and presentation styles, this panel will demonstrate a shift from top-down information delivery paradigm to a philosophy that allows respect for open source shared content and seeks best practices across all areas of information science and services. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77148/
- Needs Assessment Survey Report
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. The project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library (CDL), the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University (NYU). The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build collections of web-published materials. The content of the collections for this project will be largely from US federal and state government agencies, but will also include political policy documents, campaign literature, and information surrounding political movements and labor unions. This report includes the methods, results, discussion, and appendices related to the Web-at-Risk project. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36322/
- Needs Assessment Survey Report: Abbreviated Version
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Needs Assessment Toolkit created for the Web-at-Risk project describes the project's needs assessment activities and includes data collection tools, which are designated to identify the needs and requirements of curators, web-content producers, and end users with regard to the Web Archive Service. Additionally, information gathered by some of the data collection tools will help to identify curators' requirements for the web crawler and its crawl analyzer tool, which will be developed as part of the project. Each of the assessment activities described in the Needs Assessment Toolkit was designated to follow a collection development framework for web archives. This report contains a data analysis of the survey results. Results from focus group discussions and interviews with content providers and end users are presented in separate reports. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36323/
- A DSpace Foundation for a Teaching and Research Commons: The Metadata Education and Research Information Commons
- This poster discusses the Metadata Education and Research Information Commons (MERIC). MERIC originated from an action plan of the Library of Congress and addresses the need to prepare future information professionals to organize and provide access to digital resources. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc111008/
- Data Normalization Procedures on Decomposed MARC 21 Records
- In this document, the authors present some aspects of data normalization of the decomposed records to improve the results of analysis. The data normalization processes use pattern-matching techniques to eliminate and/or generalize anomalous characters and terms. Since the unit of analysis in preparing the test dataset of 400,000 MARC 21 records is a "word," there was a need for data normalization to provide reliability in the subsequent analysis. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc111005/
- Digital Curation and Data Management Capacity Building: Curricula and Workforce
- This poster discusses digital curation and data management capacity building, as part of the iCAMP project. The authors are currently in the stage of identifying competencies that are required for digital curation and data management practice. This poster will present the preliminary competencies the authors developed for the curriculum based on extensive literature review and job posting analysis. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86823/
- Digital Curation in the Academic Library Job Market
- This paper discusses digital curation in the academic library job market. With the increasingly important role librarians play in the fast-paced and data-intensive digital curation movement, there is a need to identify the qualifications and responsibilities expected by employers. An investigation of 110 recent job advertisements was conducted to identify competencies required of individuals working in the digital curation field. The job ads analysis serves as an important indicator of the emerging requirements for a qualified workforce in the field of digital curation in the academic library job market. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122170/
- An Issue of Granularity: Decomposing Redesigned Courses on Different Levels of Details
- This paper discusses a project to redesign courses on different levels of details. The Texas Course Redesign Project initiated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) aims to develop and distribute instructional resources to improve student learning outcomes and lower the costs of higher education. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38886/
- Are you Ready? Resource Description and Access (RDA)
- This presentation was given at the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas. The author discusses Resource Description and Access (RDA), what it is, the intention, functionality, structure, and implementation strategies, debates and issues, and recommendations. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84311/
- Cataloger Tasks: Work In Progress
- This presentation discusses cataloging tasks, including Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD), and concepts related to the tasks and decisions involved in cataloging. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83789/
- CTR-NT: A Survey of Local Cataloging Tool and Resource Utilization
- This presentation discusses a grant project on Cataloging Tools and Resource: North Texas (CTR-NT). The study aimed to discover the extent and utilization of cataloging tools and resources within technical service departments in the public libraries of the North Texas Regional Library System (NTRLS) and the North East Texas Library System (NETLS). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83787/