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Data for development: The case for Africa

Description: Conference paper presenting the results of a systematic review of data use practices by African countries to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) #2 – agriculture.
Date: October 18, 2019
Creator: Assefa, Shimelis; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Using Metadata Record Graphs to Understand Digital Library Metadata

Description: This paper discusses the use of Metadata Record Graphs as a way of generating network-based metrics for metadata in six digital library collections, and evaluates the usefulness of network analysis versus more standard statistical data.
Date: September 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Zavalina, Oksana & Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Metadata Record Graphs for Six Collections from the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

Description: Paper providing background and the entire processed, intermediary data used for network analysis research regarding metadata from the UNT Digital Collections. It includes background and contextual information to reuse the data and provides complete datasets for metadata in six selected collections: the College of Music Recordings, Technical Report Archive and Image Library, the Texas Patents Collection, Texas State Publications, UNT Theses and Dissertations, and the University Photography Coll… more
Date: August 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

Description: This literature review provides an overview of outreach in academic libraries over the last five years. The review aims to centralize the common activities and general purposes of outreach while also bringing emphasis to more strategic outreach efforts such as the incorporation of learning outcomes and assessment into outreach. The review also provides commentary on how outreach can be used to affect information literacy and research.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Henson, Brea
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit

Description: Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented studies achievement scores and affinity towards STEM scores of male and female students after participating in a unit focused on understanding a solenoid.
Date: 2019-06-15/2019-06-19
Creator: Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.; Smith, Daniella & Johnson, Karen R.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Teaching STEM undergraduates discipline-specific writing skills: A data-driven learning approach

Description: Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented was funded by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education and seeks to improve the quality of technical writing instruction for undergraduate STEM students by creating a data-driven learning approach for teaching STEM students writing patterns specific to their respective disciplines.
Date: 2019-06-15/2019-06-19
Creator: Boettger, Ryan K. & Wulff, Stefanie
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage

Description: Environmental scan and recommendations for sharing usage data about OA monographs among stakeholders in scholarly communication
Date: May 6, 2019
Creator: O'Leary, Brian & Hawkins, Kevin S.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Building Specialized Collections from Web Archiving

Description: Short paper presented at Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse (AIDR). This short paper presents work on creating datasets of high-value publications and documents from web archives that can be used for machine learning research to help classify these large collections of data.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Caragea, Cornelia & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Interview Guide for End Users: Researchers, Depositors, Language Communities: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

Description: This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: May 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Identifying Gaps in Tools and Interfaces for Assessing Metadata Quality

Description: White paper discussing qualitative research conducted by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries regarding perceptions of quality by metadata creators and their managers. These perceptions of metadata quality are intended to identify gaps in tools and interfaces used to create metadata.
Date: February 19, 2019
Creator: Fox, Nathaniel T.; Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Assessing the Success of Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians

Description: This paper is a part of the proceedings for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference. It describes an academic libraries' assessment of their faculty mentoring program.
Date: 2019
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Data, Information, and Knowledge Management: University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University Institutional Repositories Initiatives / Experiences

Description: 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.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Helge, Kris; Zerangue, Amanda; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Andrews, Pamela
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Managers or Librarians: Roles and Competencies in RDM

Description: This paper describes a workshop to analyze the roles and competencies of data curators in different contexts such as enterprises and academic libraries in mainland China.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Fan, Zhenjia
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Panel on the Nexus of Knowledge Management and Information Science: What Past and Present Trends Tell Us About the Future

Description: This panel brings together leaders from knowledge management and information science to discuss the trends and opportunities for collaboration within and between these fields.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Freeburg, Darin; Liebowitz, Jay; Marchionini, Gary; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Makani, Joyline & Sappington, Jayne
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Characterization of a Semantic Relations Taxonomy in Biomedical Science

Description: This paper characterizes the Ontobee relations ontology in the biomedical science domain with comparisons to the Conflict and Mediation Event Observation (CAMEO) relations taxonomy and the UMLS semantic network relations.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Wu, Yejun & Yang, Li
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Document Expansion for Short Text Conversation

Description: This paper reports a study on improving the retrieval of comments made to previous posts that can potentially be relevant to new posts in the open social media domain.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Wang, Jianqiang
Partner: UNT College of Information
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How Does Your Knowledge Flow? Exercises in Spatial Syntax

Description: This paper describes a workshop that introduces participants to the practice of spatial syntax and provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to map assess the knowledge flows of their working environments.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Bedford, Denise A. D.; Garcia-Perez, Alexeis & Sappington, Jayne
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Information Overload & Its Effect on High School Students

Description: This paper studies how high school students experience information overload, as well as their specific physical, emotional, and mental reactions.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Zimmerman, Tara
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Open Science and Open Data for Sustainable Development: A Global View

Description: This paper describes a panel that provides an overview of the global landscape of open science.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Rorissa, Abebe; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Assefa, Shimelis; Helge, Kris; Lewis, Elise et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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