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Beyond Google: Promoting Digitized Primary Sources in First-Year Writing
Date: March 15, 2013
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Description: This presentation discusses promoting digitized primary sources in research. Topics include the background and interest in the subject, key term definitions, examples of items and usage, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) K-12 teaching resources, and FYC application.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc155618/
Crossing State Lines For Collaborative Newspaper Digitization: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Date: May 24, 2012
Creator: Day, Jennifer; Newell, Mallory; Williams, Chad & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Description: This presentation discusses a collaborative project between the Oklahoma Historical Society and the University of North Texas (UNT) to digitize all of the pre-1923 newspapers in the Oklahoma Historical Society's collection. The project involved building The Gateway to Oklahoma History, which allows easy access to newspapers for students, researchers, and journalists. The project is funded in part by the Excellence and Ethics in Journalism Grant.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86155/
The Portal to Texas History Usability Test
Date: May 2, 2011
Creator: Crane, Kate; Gilmore, Linda; Khammassi, Khouloud & Krahmer, Ana
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.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83319/
Processing Non-English Content
Date: September 27, 2012
Creator: Weidner, Andrew
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.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc107765/
Quality Review of Digital Newspapers: Lessons Learned at UNT
Date: September 27, 2012
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Description: This presentation was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes a quality review of digital newspapers and lessons learned at the University of North Texas (UNT).
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc109726/
Shaping User Experience
Date: March 2012
Creator: Krahmer, Ana; Crane, Kate & Carlisle, Tara
Description: This presentation is part of a conference workshop about shaping user experience. The topics of the presentation include usability testing, iterative design, and digital libraries.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83333/
Unplug Your Mouse: Workflow Automation with AutoHotkey
Date: February 20, 2013
Creator: Weidner, Andrew & Wilson, Robert
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.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146569/
Web Browser Automation With Selenium IDE
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Weidner, Andrew
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.
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