WCRP IPY activities
Date: March 11, 2008
Creator: World Climate Research Program
Description: On 1 March 2007, the International Polar Year 2007/2008, one of the most ambitious coordinated international science programmes was launched. Many of the IPY leaders and participants are members of WCRP projects and groups. Climate issues are at the forefront of the majority of IPY studies. This chart is a visualization of International Polar Year activities at the World Climate Research Program.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This poster presentation discusses how an effective metadata management approach can help institutions improve consistency, clarity of lineage, and relationships to that they can better use, reuse, and integrate resources. It demonstrates metadata quality assurance mechanisms by examining different quality assessment criteria including metadata record completeness, consistency, accuracy, provenance, conformance to expectations, and other known substantive factors.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Targeted Access for Varied Audiences to Integrated, Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources
Date: 2003
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Description: This poster presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History project, which aims to integrate and ensure long-term access to large quantities of heterogeneous digital resources from many different institutions. The UNT Library is undertaking the leadership role by creating the application framework, setting project standards and guidelines, and facilitating collaborative efforts for content building. Also discussed are expanded services for targeted audiences, project approaches to preservation challenges, collaboration benefits, and other issues that emerged in the process of building a platform for the portal system.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Description: This poster was presented at the 2005 American Society for Information Sciences and Technologies (ASIS&T) conference. It is based on the University of North Texas Libraries' Portal to Texas History project and provides a general overview on the emerging trends and innovative use of portal technologies.
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Digital Collection Development Policy: From Documenting Content to Documenting Process
Date: 2010
Creator: Hall, Nathan; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This poster discusses collection policies. Drawing from the experience of developing digital collections and a digital library infrastructure, the University of North Texas Libraries is developing a new collection policy specifically to meet the unique needs of digital collection building. This poster discusses new opportunities and challenges in digital life cycle managements in general.
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Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This poster presentation provides some preliminary result on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Belden, Dreanna
Description: This poster presentation is based on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital libraries implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Integration of ETD into Topical Digital Library Collections: Facilitating ETD Use and Reuse
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: Based on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' experience, this poster examines the challenges and opportunities presented by integrating Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) into existing digital collections and demonstrates the role that ETDs can play in topical collection development in digital libraries.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources: Lessons from Texas History Portal
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This poster discusses issues related to portal building and explores compliance and interoperability issues. It also assesses the current status and the emerging trends in innovative uses of portal technologies and provides an overall scenario. In context of aggregating a variety of formats, bundling preservation metadata to facilitate long-term access, setting project standards and best practice guidelines, and coordinating a variety of collaborative efforts for participating institutions.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Carte du Gouvernement de l'Amerique.
Date: [1719]
Creator: Chatelain, Henri Abraham
Description: Chart describing the governmental structure of the political entities of the Americas circa 1719 as well as a general overview, including 4 drawings and 1 map. Contents: Instruction généralle -- Conseil de l'Amerique Septentrionalle -- Conseil de Terre Ferme -- Conseil de l'Amerique Meridionalle -- Gouvernement Ecclésiastique -- Pais de l'Amerique appartenant aux autres puissances de l'Europe -- Carte de l'Amerique -- Revenue des Arch. et Eveschez de l'Amerique.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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