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The Impact of Cyber Addiction on Information Overload and Workplace Performance

Description: Cyber addiction refers to the excessive use of internet and cyber application leading to adverse outcomes such as stress, distractions, reduced motivation levels, and challenges in task orientation. Uncontrolled consumption of the internet leads to information overload that impact productivity and workplace performance (Griffiths, 2010). In such cases, the ubiquitous availability of information can lead to IT-related stress where users derive a reduced sense of satisfaction (Diomidous et al. 20… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Alboulayan, Moneerah & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arab Gulf Counties: A case study of Alqabas Archive

Description: The goal of this study is to explore how information is currently organized in digital cultural heritage collections in Arabian Gulf countries. it focused on Alqabas – a Kuwaiti institution with a strong reputation of early adopter of digital archiving and developer of major digital collections in Arab Gulf counties, accumulated experience in knowledge management. The mixed-methods study combined semi-structured interview of the Alqabas archive manager and in-depth content analysis of a sample … more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Knowledge Management in Cybersecurity Education Using Concept Maps

Description: The purpose of this research is to explore concept maps as a viable and effective knowledge management tool for cybersecurity education. Concept maps serve as a visual representation of knowledge. They are commonly utilized to support the teaching and learning process or as a student learning evaluation tool. While the focus of education research is on tools specific to cybersecurity such as learning management systems and cyber ranges, there is little dedicated to understanding how concept map… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Bernot, Jordan E. F. & Chang, Hsia-Ching
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Leveraging Geographical Disparities of Socio-Economic Factors to Predict Vulnerable Teenagers to Teen Birth: Chicago as A Case Study

Description: Teen birth (TB) imposes serious health and economic burdens to both individuals and government. Various attempts have been made to overcome TB such as teen pregnancy prevention evidence-based programs. However, these programs might have declined teen birth rate (TBR), most of which do not address the influencing socio-economic factors linked to areas where teenagers live. This study is aimed at investigating socio-economic factors contributing to TB and identify their geographical disparities.… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Sadeghinaeenifard, Fariba & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia

Description: Knowledge is awareness or familiarity gained by experiences of facts, data, and situations. Knowledge management includes techniques and processes to represent, store, search, integrate, and analyze knowledge that is available in digital form. Ontology is a formal explicit specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest and it is a building block of the semantic web and formal description of knowledge. Ontologies capture the structure and knowledge about some domain of inter… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Hussen, Tijani; Beyene, Melkamu & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia

Description: This paper will report on a research to develop Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo (Afro-Asiatic language that belongs to North Omotic sub family in Ethiopia) using Hidden Markov Modeling technique. The portable and open source toolkit called Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Toolkit is used to perform the experiment. The development of HMM based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) requires both text and speech corpus for training and testing the HMM. In order to have a mo… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Asfaw, Zelalem & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Operative Data Governance Roadmaps for Business Process Management Success: The Role of Leadership and the Impact of Information Technology Adoption

Description: The unquestionable demand for data generation and consumption in organizations in this century prompt an increasingly notion of data as a valuable asset, provoking the urgency for reliable analysis and reporting of complex data assets towards a critical business decision making process. Computing languages like SQL, Sequential Query Language, Data Mining and Warehouse, and data visualization tools are some examples of how information technology is being applied to the problem solving strategy r… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel & Makani, Joyline
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Wisdom and Veterans: Enhance the Perspective, Experience, and Resilience of the Workforce

Description: Wisdom is defined as “a uniquely human quality demonstrated through an ability to apply self-insight, experience, and sound judgment in conjunction with applicable data, information, and knowledge to create a course of action leading to beneficial and productive decisions for both individuals and society” (Allen et al., 2020, p. 159). Using this definition as a foundation, this research explores how veterans use wisdom to enhance the workforce through perspective, experience, and resilience.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Allen, Jeff M., 1968-; Eaves, Tresia D.; Zimmerman, Tara; Rosellini, Amy; Njeri, Millicent & Khader, Malak
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

Description: This is the hierarchical coding scheme used for qualitative analysis of interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: June 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Survey of Benchmarks in Metadata Quality: Initial Findings

Description: White paper providing general analysis and documentation of results collected by a Qualtrics survey to gather information about metadata assessment practices among digital libraries. It includes an overview of the responses and brief analysis, with some interpretation of trends.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Gentry, Steven; Hale, Meredith L.; Payant, Andrea; Tarver, Hannah; White, Rachel & Wittmann, Rachel
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Programmatic Extraction of ‘Documents’ from Web Archives: Identifying Document Characteristics from Content Selector Interviews

Description: White paper documenting the results of interviews with professionals who manage collections of state or federal documents, and institutional repositories. These interviews gathered information about collection policies and characteristics of born-digital publications that are incorporated into these bodies of materials, to inform future machine learning algorithms.
Date: 2020
Creator: Fox, Nathaniel T.; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries
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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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