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Exploration of Metadata Practices in Digital Collections of Archives with Arabian Language Materials

Description: Article for a study aimed to develop understanding of the current state of metadata practices in digital collections of archival institutions in the Arabian Gulf region. It also explored perspectives (including attitudes and possible barriers) for development of large-scale regional portals that would facilitate discovery of Arab digital archives (including language collections) by aggregating metadata. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June… more
Date: June 16, 2023
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Language Archiving Training: A Case Study of a Metadata Course in Library and Information Science Graduate Program, 2020 - 2023

Description: Article explores the training gap between the way these materials are organized and represented and the understanding of that data – and expectations towards the more functional ways of its organization and representation – by language preservation and revitalization researchers, and by members of language communities. Information resources collected by language archives have unique attributes of importance to their target user groups, and these attributes and their representation are not curre… more
Date: June 16, 2023
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Exploring the Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on International Students in Higher Education: Generative AI, Chatbots, Analytics, and International Student Success

Description: Article asserts that international students face unique challenges in pursuing higher education in a foreign country. To address these challenges and enhance their academic experience, higher education institutions are increasingly exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The research paper explores various AI applications, such as personalized learning experiences, adaptive testing, predictive analytics, and chatbots for learning and research.
Date: May 31, 2023
Creator: Wang, Ting; Lund, Brady D.; Marengo, Agostino; Pagano, Alessandro; Mannuru, Nishith Reddy; Teel, Zoë A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Detecting interdisciplinary semantic drift for knowledge organization based on normal cloud model

Description: Article describes how, to reduce the conceptual ambiguity in interdisciplinary knowledge organization systems (KOSs) and enhance interdisciplinary KOS management, this paper proposes a framework for interdisciplinary semantic drift (ISD) detection based on the normal cloud model (NCM). The research indicates the meaning of an interdisciplinary concept will drift from the high KPE discipline to the low KPE discipline as long as interdisciplinary knowledge potential differences (KPD) exist betwee… more
Date: April 27, 2023
Creator: Wang, Zhongyi; Peng, Siyuan; Chen, Jiangping; Kapasule, Amoni G. & Chen, Haihua
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Status of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Archives

Description: This paper explores the role of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) archives in preserving the history and cultural heritage of these institutions and investigates the factors that contribute to the disparities observed in the availability of digital collections and the staffing of archivists across HBCUs in the United States. Data was collected from 102 HBCU websites and the National Center for Education Statistics, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and … more
Date: April 5, 2023
Creator: Bussey, Jennifer; Lund, Brady, 1994- & Roeschley, Ana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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A content analysis of research on technology use for teaching mathematics to students with disabilities: word networks and topic modeling

Description: Authors of article conduct a content analysis of research on technology use for teaching mathematics to students with disabilities. They applied word networks and structural topic modeling of 488 studies published from 1980 to 2021. Results showed that the words “computer” and “computer-assisted instruction” had the highest degree of centrality in the 1980s and 1990s, and “learning disability” was another central word in the 2000s and 2010s.
Date: March 26, 2023
Creator: Shin, Mikyung; Ok, Min Wook; Choo, Sam; Hossain, Gahangir; Bryant, Diane P. & Kang, Eunyoung
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Toward an intentional model aware of learner cognitive traits for pedagogical process guidance

Description: Authors of the article suggest that the novelty of Intentional Model of Pedagogical Process Guidance (IMPPG) is the effectiveness use of Cognitive Trait Model to be aware of different traits of learner. This model has been experimented and assessed with tutors and students learning spreadsheet management in a first-year studying in applied license’s degree in Business English and applied license’s degree in Education.
Date: March 15, 2023
Creator: Bayounes, Walid; Saâdi, Ines Bayoudh & Kinshuk
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Dublin Core Metadata Created by Kuwaiti Students: Exploration of Quality in Context

Description: Conference paper reporting results of the examination of metadata records for Arabic-language eBooks to support ongoing metadata education in the Arabian Gulf region. The results are presented in-context, after introducing the metadata teaching practices at this undergraduate program, and the major Dublin Core skill-building assignment. This is a manuscript version of a published work. Citation information is available for the published version of the work.
Date: March 10, 2023
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Exploration of Accuracy, Completeness and Consistency in Metadata for Physical Objects in Museum Collections

Description: Conference paper for an exploratory study that examined student-created metadata for physical non-text resources. The authors applied in-depth qualitative and quantitative content analysis to the Dublin Core (DCTERMS) metadata created by the graduate students in two sections of an introductory digital library metadata course. Finding of comparative analysis for the asynchronous course section and the section with synchronous class meetings are also presented. Implications are discussed, along w… more
Date: March 10, 2023
Creator: Zavalin, Vyacheslav & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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A Novel Hybrid Edge Detection and LBP Code-Based Robust Image Steganography Method

Description: Article describes how in digital image processing and steganography, images are often described using edges and local binary pattern (LBP) codes. The authors state that by combining these two properties, a novel hybrid image steganography method of secret embedding is proposed in this paper.
Date: March 10, 2023
Creator: Sultana, Habiba; Kamal, A. H. M.; Hossain, Gahangir & Kabir, Muhammad Ashad
Partner: UNT College of Information
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A Chat with ChatGPT: How will AI and GPT impact scholarly publishing?

Description: Working paper exploring ChatGPT. It begins with an introduction to ChatGPT and then proceeds into a transcript of a conversation with the platform about it and related AI technologies’ impact on the future of scholarly publishing, before concluding with some discussion on the further implications.
Date: January 2023
Creator: Lund, Brady, 1994-
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation

Description: Article describes how, the goal of ITS is to support learning content, activities, and resources, adapted to the specific needs of the individual learner and influenced by learner’s motivation. This research proposes an intentional model that adopts Map formalism to support personalized learning guidance by considering learner’s motivation.
Date: December 5, 2022
Creator: Bayounes, Walid; Saâdi, Bayoudh Ines & Kinshuk
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Future Directions for digital Literacy Fluency using Cognitive Flexibility Research: A Review of Selected Digital Literacy Paradigms and Theoretical Frameworks

Description: Article discusses how as learners engage, test, and apply new subject knowledge, they often expend their cognitive capacity on the technological tools designed to capture their learning progress and outcomes. The author's research explores the value of developing digital literacy to improve learners’ cognitive flexibility by decreasing technological cognitive load and increasing learning fluency.
Date: November 21, 2022
Creator: Caton, Amy; Bradshaw-Ward, Danita; Kinshuk & Savenye, Wilhelmina
Partner: UNT College of Information

A Comparative Analysis of Data Literacy Competency Frameworks

Description: Poster on a comparative analysis of data literacy competency frameworks. Seven competency frameworks were selected for in-depth analysis, and the results are compiled in a table. This work is part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant. It was presented at the 2022 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference held October 24-26, 2022.
Date: October 25, 2022
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun & Berka, Catrina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Creativity and Innovative Processes: Assemblages and Lines of Flight

Description: Article provides assemblage maps showing the elements related to creativity, innovation, and creativity and innovation. These assemblage maps highlight virtual and dynamic flight lines that represent potentially active components with varying intensity and direction, which provides a tool for managers and practitioners to identify potentialities for future predictions better.
Date: September 26, 2022
Creator: Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose M. & Thurlow, Nigel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity

Description: Article describes how the authors present an analysis of eight measures used for quantifying morphological complexity of natural languages. The measures they study are corpus-based measures of morphological complexity with varying requirements for corpus annotation.
Date: September 22, 2022
Creator: Çöltekin, Çağrı & Rama, Taraka
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling

Description: Article reports on a trace-based assessment of approaches to learning used by middle school aged children who interacted with NASA Mars Mission science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) games in Whyville, an online game environment with 8 million registered young learners. Differences in approach to learning were found illustrating the potential value of the methodology to curriculum and game-based learning designers as well as other creators of online STEM content for pre-college… more
Date: September 5, 2022
Creator: Knezek, Gerald; Gibson, David; Christensen, Rhonda; Trevisan, Ottavia & Carter, Morgan
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Comparison of glide path and pathfiles in canal preparation by cone-beam computed tomography: An original research

Description: This article is a study describing the canal transportation of the different file systems in various combinations of the “Glide path (Gp)” by cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT).
Date: July 13, 2022
Creator: Uppalapati, Vishwaja; Chhaparwal, Amit; Ahmed, Siddiq; Shariff, Suhail; Pallewar, Abhijit Mallesham; Mustafa, Mohammed et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using existing metadata standards and tools for a digital language archive: a balancing act

Description: Article discusses how building a digital language archive requires a number of steps to ensure collecting, describing, preserving and providing access to language data in effective and efficient ways. This paper introduces the reader to the background of this project and discusses some of the areas important for representing language materials where both University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) metadata and CoRSAL metadata practices were adapted to better fit the needs of intended audiences.
Date: June 16, 2022
Creator: Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah; Phillips, Mark Edward & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Application of Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine: Lesson for Ethiopia

Description: Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. Big data analytics (BDA) using cutting-edge technologies helps to design models that can diagnose, treat and predict diseases. In Ethiopia, healthcare service delivery faces many challenges specifically in relation to prescribing the right medicine to the right patient at the right time. Thus, patients face challenges ranging… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Woldemariam, Misganaw Tadesse & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communications: Open Access

Description: The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This document highlighted one of the panels and the panelists argue that open access to scholarly knowledge productio… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Fourie, Ina; Rorissa, Abebe; Ford, Angela & Assefa, Shimelis
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Increasing Information Certainty for Post-Traumatic Growth

Description: Trauma, and its associated effects, can be conceptualized as a period of information uncertainty. The natural psychological response to trauma is a period of post-traumatic stress. Trauma occurs when an existing knowledge base has been challenged. Any event that challenges important components of an individual’s assumptive world is said to be traumatic. This post-traumatic period is akin to many theories and concepts in information science including uncertainty reduction, Everyday Life Informat… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Bank, Nicole & Allen, Jeff M., 1968-
Partner: UNT College of Information
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