Description: This presentation discusses a usability test conducted on users of The Portal to Texas History website managed by the University of North Texas. The study looks at the navigation of the Portal website and recruited users that UNT sees as their target audience. This presentation discusses the purpose of the usability testing, the test environment, test methodology, the usability scenario and tasks, user profiles, findings and analysis, and recommendations.

Description: This Tech Talk presentation discusses web browser automation with Selenium IDE. Selenium IDE is a Firefox plugin that sends commands to the browser according to the instructions contained in user-defined scripts. This Tech Talk will cover the basics of Selenium IDE, present examples of how the Digital Projects Newspaper Group is using Selenium to streamline the process of editing metadata records in The Portal to Texas History and UNT Digital Library, and provide resources for further inquiry. The Tech Talk will conclude with a demonstration of Selenium IDE including a suite of search scripts developed for the UNT Libraries.

Description: This presentation was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes the NDNP New Mexico project's experience encoding ALTO OCR file language codes to enable enhanced discovery of its Spanish language content on the Chronicling America website.

Description: 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.