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"Mapping the Southwest" Project: Collaboration for Curation of Wide-format Items
Date: April 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This presentation discusses the 'Mapping the Southwest' project and the collaboration for curation of wide-format items.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159529/
Understanding large digital collections and learning new tools: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program Visualizations
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hicks, William
Description: This presentation discusses the Texas Digital Newspaper Program visualizations and learning new tools for digital collections. Abstract: As digital library collections continue to increase in size it becomes necessary to use new tools and techniques to communicate and understand the rich content held in these collections to curators and end users. This presentation discusses the use of the D3 Javascript library to visualize and provide new insight to the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) hosted by The Portal to Texas History as a case study. The collection contains over one million pages of Texas newspapers from the 1830's to modern day covering over one hundred counties, and hundreds of titles. An overview of existing newspaper visualization projects will be presented as well as an explanation of how the presenters prepared the data for these visualizations using the publicly available TDNP OAI-PMH repository and the open source D3 Javascript library.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159531/
Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Description: Poster illustrating issues involved in fully-implementing the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards in the UNT Libraries' digital collections, comprising The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History. The first section, "Analysis of Dates," provides statistics related to the number of valid entries among existing date instances in the system, the most common issues with non-EDTF valid dates, and the number of valid dates after simulating automated conversions for adjusting some non-valid dates. The second section illustrates the written guidelines provided for metadata creators and the embedded validation tools that alert persons entering metadata when the dates do not meet EDTF standards. The third section includes screenshots to show date normalization in the user interface, to make formatted dates more accessible, and the icon that is used when dates cannot be easily normalized, providing access to a glossary.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159532/
Texas Digital Newspaper Program Million Page Dataset
Date: April 7, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hicks, William
Description: This dataset represents the first million pages of Texas newspapers added to The Portal to Texas History as part of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. The dataset consists of 123,184 newspaper issues from 569 titles, comprising 1,000,003 pages. Additionally the 3,349,156 item uses associated with this dataset as of April 7, 2013 are included.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc158400/
Metadata Analysis at the Command-Line
Date: January 15, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This article discusses metadata analysis. Abstract: Over the past few years the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit (DPU) has developed a set of metadata analysis tools, processes, and methodologies aimed at helping to focus limited quality control resources on the areas of the collection where they might have the most benefit. The key to this work lies in its simplicity: records harvested from OAI-PMH-enabled digital repositories are transformed into a format that makes them easily parsable using traditional Unix/Linux-based command-line tools. This article describes the overall methodology, introduces two simple open-source tools developed to help with the aforementioned harvesting and breaking, and provides example commands to demonstrate some common metadata analysis requests. All software tools described in the article are available with an open-source license via the author's GitHub account.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc157309/
Workflow Tools for Digital Curation
Date: April 17, 2013
Creator: Weidner, Andrew & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This article discusses workflow tools for digital curation. Abstract: Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the many challenges of various stages of the digital object lifecycle. Digital curation activities enhance access and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and facilitate use and re-use over time. Digital resource lifecycle management is becoming an increasingly important topic as digital curators actively explore software tools that perform metadata curation and file management tasks. Accordingly, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries develop tools and workflows that streamline production and quality assurance activities. This article demonstrates two open source software tools, AutoHotkey and Selenium IDE, which the UNT Digital Libraries has adopted for use during the pre-ingest and post-ingest stages of the digital resource lifecycle.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc157307/
Bibliography for "Encouraging Research and Publication among Academic Librarians"
Date: June 2013
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Description: This bibliography accompanies a presentation for the Library Management Institute summer conference. This bibliography contains citations for information related to encouraging research and publication among academic librarians.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc157285/
Newspapers In The 21st Century: How NDNP State Projects Deliver The News
Date: September 2012
Creator: Howington, Ann & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Description: This poster discusses newspapers in the 21st century and how the National Digital Newspapers Program (NDNP) state projects deliver the news. NDNP Awardees' are creating their own digital newspaper sites to provide free access to content digitized through NDNP and beyond.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc155636/
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/
In With The New: Adapting To Change Using ILLiad
Date: March 20, 2013
Creator: Johnston, Pamela
Description: This presentation discusses adapting to change using ILLiad. Abstract: Interlibrary Loan at the University of North Texas Libraries has experienced many changes during the past year. We've organized into the Access Services Department, moved to a new office, and incorporated fresh techniques for providing customer service. This session will describe how we have incorporated changes through ILLiad, through services for our customers, and by cooperation among Access Services staff. Examples: Implementing Article Exchange and Odyssey for Lending, starting a faculty book delivery service, and loaning media items through ILL.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc155625/