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Storage 101: The Basics
This presentation discusses storage options for digital content, questions to ask when planning, and things to consider for storing and digitizing data.
Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries
This presentation gives a basic outline of the work flow and processes involved within the Digital Projects Unit. Topics include scanning, digital preservation, and staffing.
jEdit
This Tech Talks presentation discusses the jEdit text editor. jEdit is an open-source text editor available online which is used within the Digital Projects Lab for programming and for editing XML metadata files. In this Tech Talk, Metadata Librarian Hannah Tarver describes some of the ways that jEdit can be customized to make editing quicker and easier for documents that use mark-up languages or plain text.
XML to Lucene to SRW
Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report documents procedures of parsing XML records into Lucene index and making those records available via SRW.
Status Report Period: Fall Semester 2006 (Updated February 15)
Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report details the status of the project and covers encountered problems and activities.
Factors Affecting Selection of Information Sources: A Study of Ramkhamhaeng University Regional Campuses Graduate Students
Poster presented at the 2011 International iConference. This poster presents research conducted on students at Ramkhamhaeng University (RU).
Vendor Relations: From Both Sides
This presentation discusses vendor services and relations both as a service provider and as a customer of vendor services, in relation to digital libraries.
Toward Best Practices in Integrating ETDs and Associated Data: UNT's Approach
Poster presented at the 2012 Texas ETD Annual Conference. This poster describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries approach toward best practices in integrating ETDs and associated data.
Providing the ETDs of Today for the Researchers of Tomorrow
Poster presented at the 2012 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Annual Conference discussing the ETD Lifecycle Management project, a collaborative project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Rhapsody in Green: ETDs at the University of North Texas
This presentation discusses electronic theses and dissertations at the University of North Texas (UNT). UNT began mandatory ETDs for both theses and dissertations in fall 1999, making it the 3rd institution in the world to go "electronic" in this way. There have been challenges along the way, but from the very beginning there has been a close and cordial relationship between the Grad School and the Libraries which serves to "book end" the student's ETD experience in a meaningful and productive way. During this session, UNT's ETD process from start to finish will be explained, especially the ways in which the Grad School and the Libraries work together to enhance the lifecycle management of students' research output at UNT.
Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE
Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE.
Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Overview of Factors that Affect Digital Resources Discoverability
Paper accompanying a poster for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes factors that affect digital resource discoverability.
The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders National Partnership
Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project.
Unplug Your Mouse: Workflow Automation with AutoHotkey
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.
Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE [Poster]
Poster presented at the 2013 International iConference. This poster discusses metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE.
Open Access Publishing Fees: Responses, Strategies and Emerging Best Practices [Poster]
Poster presented at the 2013 International iConference. This poster discusses research on open access publishing fees and article processing charges.
Open Access Publishing Fees: Responses, Strategies and Emerging Best Practices
Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses research on open access publishing fees and article processing charges.
The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders Partnership [Poster]
Poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This poster discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project.
Classification Of The End-Of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices To Web Archives
This is the final report for the EOTCD project, which is formally titled 'Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives.' The project commenced December 1, 2009 and ended November 30, 2012. The overview includes background information about the End of Term (EOT) 2008 Archive and a brief description of the activities conducted in the project's four work areas. Following the Overview there are three sections: Goals Accomplished; Significant Findings and Accomplishments; and Project Achievements.
Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) Dates Research Datasets
Two datasets, each with 390,751 date samples from the UNT Libraries' digital collections. These samples were compiled for research regarding the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standard. The first dataset contains a concatenated list of date values from the metadata records in The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History. The "classified" dataset includes labels expressing whether each date is EDTF-valid and the level of conformance.
Texas Digital Newspaper Program Data: What we gather, and how we use it
Presentation for the IFLA International Newspaper Conference. This presentation discusses the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, its target audiences, and the collection and use of the data.
Research from Many Angles: Evaluating Usage and Impact of Digital Newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program
Paper for the 2014 IFLA International Newspapers Conference. This paper discusses evaluating usage and impact of digital newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspapers Program (TDNP).
One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Issue Timeline
One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History
One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Issues, Pages, Uses
One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History
One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Texas Newspapers By County
One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History
Development of a portal to Texas history
Article discussing the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History.
Web-Archiving: Collecting and Preserving Important Web-based National Resources
Presentation for the National Archives and Library of Ethiopia on web-archiving and collecting and preserving important web-based national resources.
Open Access and the Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Communication
Presentation for Addis Ababa University on open access and the evolving landscape of scholarly communication.
Emerging Trends in Academic Research Libraries
Presentation for the 2015 Consortium of Ethiopia Academic and Research Libraries (CEARL) General Meeting Workshop. This presentation discusses emerging trends in academic and research libraries.
Comparison of Full-text Versus Metadata Searching in an Institutional Repository: Case Study of the UNT Scholarly Works
This paper discusses a case study comparing full-text versus metadata searching in the University of North Texas (UNT) Scholarly Works institutional repository.
Digital Repository: Promoting Scholarship via the convergence of (local/global and digital/analogue) contents
Presentation at Jimma University discussing digital repositories and promoting scholarship through the convergence of local/global and digital/analogue contents.
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