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Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas

Paper on how metadata supports the cycle of system improvements at the University of North Texas (UNT).

Date: 2010

Creator: Tarver, Hannah

Item Type: Paper

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Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources

Paper accompanying a poster presentation at the 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses metadata quality and a phased approach to ensuring long-term access to digital resources.

Date: 2009

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Paper

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Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This paper provides an overall scenario in the areas of aggregating a variety of digital formats, archiving digital content, and innovative uses of digital library technologies.

Date: 2005

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly

Item Type: Paper

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Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience

Paper accompanying a poster for the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Conference. Paper discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' digital libraries' implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.

Date: 2007

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Belden, Dreanna

Item Type: Paper

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A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Article discussing metadata approaches to preservation of digital resources and the experiences of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.

Date: August 5, 2002

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hastings, Samantha Kelly & Hartman, Cathy Nelson

Item Type: Article

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Exploration of Adoption of Preservation Metadata in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Paper presented at the 2010 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses preservation metadata and its role in the challenges of long-term access.

Date: 2010

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly

Item Type: Paper

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Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This paper provides some preliminary results on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions.

Date: 2009

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Paper

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The 'Texas Register' Web-Site Creations and Related Processes: Revised Report - 2003

Report on the Texas Register, a weekly publication by the Office of the Secretary of State. This report discusses a partnership between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Office of the Secretary of State to insure permanent storage and public access to the non-current electronic files of the Texas Register.

Date: 2004

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Report

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Targeted Access for Varied Audiences to Integrated, Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2003 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This paper describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History project, which aims to integrate and ensuer long-term access to large quantities of heterogeneous digital resources from many different institutions.

Date: 2003

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly

Item Type: Paper

Folksonomy

This Tech Talk presentation explores Folksonomy. The author explores some of the more common aspects of folksonomies in the context of Web 2.0.

Date: July 2, 2008

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Presentation

Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Presentation on issues related to metadata quality management and demonstrates a number of tools, workflows, and quality assurance mechanisms employed by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.

Date: 2009

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah

Item Type: Presentation

Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update

This presentation provides an update on three projects the Texas Digital Library Metadata Working Group (TDL-MWG) is working on. These include designing a metadata information website, creating best practices for images and datasets, and creating metadata courses for Texas Digital Library (TDL) training.

Date: 2010

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Davis, Jee-Hyun; Thomale, Jason; Chen, Mingyu; Mercer, Holly; Hazzard, Jeanne et al.

Item Type: Presentation

"Good" Digital Collections

This Tech Talks presentation covers the principles that apply to "good" digital collections and analyzes how objects, metadata, and the user interface together create the users' experience of a collection.

Date: January 27, 2010

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Presentation

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.

Date: February 2010

Creator: Tarver, Hannah

Item Type: Presentation

Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital resource management. Templates, validation, controlled vocabularies, analysis tools, graphical reports, and more are explained in this presentation.

Date: March 16, 2007

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward

Item Type: Presentation

An Introduction to MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema

This Tech Talks presentation offers an introduction to MODS. The presenter utilizes real life examples to show how MODS can be used with the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS).

Date: October 17, 2007

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Presentation

The Future is in the Preservation Metadata

This presentation discusses the issue of digital preservation and how metadata provides a critical part of the solution to the preservation challenges from detecting preservation threats to promoting preventative measures.

Date: 2003

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Presentation

Metadata Madness: Quality Issues in Metadata Management

This presentation provides an introductory discussion on metadata quality issues. It outlines factors that influence metadata quality including the resource types, local requirements, collaborators' requirements, and cost issues and addresses how to manage metadata quality.

Date: 2007

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Presentation

Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative

This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' initiatives to ensure long-term access to various digital resources.

Date: 2002

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hartman, Cathy Nelson

Item Type: Presentation

Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.0

In this presentation, the author defines Folksonomy and the advantages and disadvantages of Folksonomy. He begins with a background on information retrieval and changing technologies, discusses trends in technologies, and explains the use of tags and Folksonomy.

Date: 2008

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly

Item Type: Presentation

Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

This presentation discusses the critical issues of metadata quality in digital libraries and describes the efforts being made by the University of North Texas Libraries to ensure metadata quality at various levels of digital resources' life cycle.

Date: 2008

Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Item Type: Presentation

Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas [Presentation]

Presentation on 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.

Date: October 22, 2010

Creator: Tarver, Hannah

Item Type: Presentation

Metadata Tools and Workflows at the University of North Texas

This presentation illustrates the metadata tools, workflows, and quality control measures at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.

Date: June 27, 2010

Creator: Tarver, Hannah

Item Type: Presentation

Introduction to Metadata

Presentation on what metadata is, the differences in syntax and semantics in metadata, and examples of associations and organizations that have developed metadata schemas.

Date: April 14, 2010

Creator: Tarver, Hannah

Item Type: Presentation

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Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas

Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources

Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities

Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience

A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Exploration of Adoption of Preservation Metadata in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions

The 'Texas Register' Web-Site Creations and Related Processes: Revised Report - 2003

Targeted Access for Varied Audiences to Integrated, Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources

Folksonomy

Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update

"Good" Digital Collections

jEdit

Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

An Introduction to MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema

The Future is in the Preservation Metadata

Metadata Madness: Quality Issues in Metadata Management

Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative

Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.0

Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas [Presentation]

Metadata Tools and Workflows at the University of North Texas

Introduction to Metadata