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7.5 Minute Quadrangle Project
Date: October 18, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation discusses the 7.5 minute quadrangle project by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit. This presentation gives the background, goals, processes, challenges, and next steps.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84317/
Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark Edward & Van de Sompel, Herbert
Description: This presentation discusses the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Memento makes it possible to automate discovery of archived resources and to consider the time between the publication of the research and the archiving of the reference URLs.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83793/
Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark Edward & Van de Sompel, Herbert
Description: This paper analyzes the persistence of referenced web resources with memento. Abstract: In this paper we present the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Two repositories with different characteristics, arXiv and the UNT digital library, are studied to determine if the nature of the repository, or of its content. Memento makes it possible to automate discovery of archived resources and to consider the time between the publication of the research and the archiving of the reference URLs. This automation allows us to process more than 160000 URLs, the largest known such study, and the repository metadata allows consideration of the results by discipline. The results are startling: 45% (66096) of the URLs referenced from arXiv still exist, but are not preserved for future generations, and 28% of resources referenced by UNT papers have been lost. Moving forwards, we provide some initial recommendations, including that repositories should publish URL lists extracted from papers that could be used as seeds for web archiving systems.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39318/
Assessing the Usage of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: An Overview of ETD Statistics and Metrics in the UNT Libraries
Date: March 31, 2011
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation discusses electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Starting in 1999, UNT has required the submission of theses and dissertations in electronic format. As an early adopter of what was to become the electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) movement in higher education, UNT has encountered several challenges in the pursuit of providing greater public access to the scholarship conducted at the University. When first implemented, ETD files were housed on the UNT Academic Computing Services servers with the UNT Libraries only providing bibliographic access through the Libraries' online catalog. As time progressed it was recognized that the UNT Libraries should play a more active role in the long-term stewardship of these resources. Libraries are well suited for supporting ETD users by integrating ETDs into the existing digital resources. Because increased access to UNT scholarship is the goal of providing public access to this content, the UNT Libraries compile system-wide aggregated usage statistics for digital resources it manages. The UNT Digital Library is used by people in over 200 countries around the world. ETDs receive significant usage in the UNT Digital Library system, compared to teh overall percentage of digital objects. This presentation provides the UNT ETDs usage statistics and analyzes ...
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas
Date: October 22, 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Description: This presentation discusses how the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit established their metadata guidelines and how the guidelines work to support The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas Digital Library.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29305/
Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas
Date: 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Description: This paper discusses how metadata supports the cycle of system improvements at the University of North Texas (UNT). The UNT Libraries recently revised their Metadata Input Guidelines in order to improve usability and accessibility for metadata writers, and to enhance the quality of metadata that drives new features in their digital systems. This paper describes important considerations in the revision process and also demonstrates the relationship between quality metadata and system functionality that ultimately benefits both metadata creators and system end-users.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29323/
Brown bag on iConference - 2013
Date: March 5, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This presentation was created for a brown bag luncheon about the 2013 iConference. It includes discussion on participants, the venues, programs, the role of the UNT Libraries, and reflections on the event.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc152427/
Challenges in Web Archiving UNT Perspective
Date: July 21, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation discusses making Web archives more usable for libraries, building digital library collections from Web content, and understanding how Web archives should fit into traditional library metrics.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28361/
Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation
Date: September 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
Description: Abstract: This paper will examine ongoing work between two major preservation systems, the Chronopolis Digital Preservation Program, and the MetaArchive Cooperative. In the past year, these two systems have begun work on bridging their technical underpinnings to create a more robust, reliable, long-lived preservation community for their users. The main emphasis of this work is moving data between a LOCKSS-based system (MetaArchive) and an iRODS-based one (Chronopolis). This work also involves several other emerging preservation micro-service tools and practices, and the expertise of the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library in deploying them. The final result of this work is intended to be of three-fold benefit: 1) directly improving the services offered by Chronopolis and MetaArchive to their constituents; 2) offering specific technical findings which will be of benefit to other systems using LOCKSS and iRODS; and 3) contributing to the larger preservation community through the examination of organizational best practices for preservation system interactions.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29823/
Chronopolis, University of North Texas, MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation
Date: September 21, 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
Description: This presentation discusses how preservation systems can share objects and specifically a collaboration between Chronopolis, MetaArchive, and the University of North Texas (UNT).
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29802/