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ETD Lifecycle Management Workshop: Presentation for Jimma University discussing electronic theses and dissertation (ETD) lifecycle management.
Every Day is Digital Preservation Day @ the UNT Libraries: Presented at the 2017 International Digital Preservation Day. This presentation introduces the University of North Texas Libraries' legacy with digital preservation.
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.
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.
"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.
The Impact of Open Access on the Current Landscape of Scholarly Communication: Presentation for Jimma University in summer 2015 discussing the impact of open access on the current landscape of scholarly communication.
Indexing in a Digital World: Presentation is about how; the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier and provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable contents and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations. Despite this, the ever-expanding digital information resources in the Web, has evolved without much regard to resources management and organization issues.
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).
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.
"Mapping the Southwest" Project: Collaboration for Curation of Wide-format Items: This presentation discusses the 'Mapping the Southwest' project and the collaboration for curation of wide-format items.
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.
My Fulbright Experience: Ethiopia (2019-20) & South Africa (2021-22): Presentation describes Daniel Alemneh's experiences as a Fulbright Scholar.
Open Access and Scholarly Communication: This presentation covers the background and definition, stakeholder roles, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities, and current/emerging trends in Open Access and Scholarly Communication.
Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Presentation on the concepts of open access and scholarly communication. This presentation covers the background of these topics and their definitions, tools and policies for open access, technology and emerging trends, challenges/opportunities that open access faces, and ultimately relates this information to open access initiatives in developing countries.
Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Digital Curators' Perspectives of the Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship: Presentation for the 2011 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses open access and scholarly communication.
Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Looking Ahead to a Post-Pandemic Future: Presentation that covers open access in the context of Ethiopia. This presentation provides examples of the background of open access and scholarly communication, the policy frameworks in place (including the White House OSTP Call to Action), the challenges and opportunities in relation to developing nations, and the emerging trends in institutional initiatives in Ethiopia.
Open Access Publishing and the Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Communication: Presentation that covers the basic principles of open access including stakeholder roles, policies, challenges and opportunities, emerging trends, and institutional initiatives.
Open Science and Open Data: Issues and Considerations: Presentation describes how the open access movement is transforming scholarly communication.
The Origins of SIG-III and Its 30 Years' Journey: Visions and Reflections: This presentation discusses the origins of SIG-III and its 30 years' journey. In light of the 75th American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Anniversary Celebration and the 30th celebration of International Information Issues (III), the participants on this panel will discuss the origins of the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) of ASIS&T and its early years. In addition to the reflections of the last 30 years, the authors look forward and discuss the future of the SIG.
Research and Successful Promotion at UNT Libraries: Presentation describes how there are multiple paths to promotion as a librarian at UNT. It details the ways in which employees with UNT libraries are able to be successful in academia and higher education.
Roles of Library for Quality Education and Research: Emerging Trends in the Information Professions: Presentation asserts that in times of information scarcity, libraries provided the most effective way of sharing material.
Two Decades of Advances in Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Presentation for Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2019. This presentation discusses several emerging trends and scenarios that change the directions of scholarship in general: ranging from the availability of interoperable Open Access contents to cross discipline collaborations, big data and global and explosive growth of social networking. In particular, this presentation provides ETDs evolution in the last twenty years and provide example using the UNT experience. As one of the early adopters of ETD in 1999, the closer look at UNT's ETD collection provide interesting data about the the overall change in ETD production, usages, including locations and types of devices users used to access the ETD collection.
Understanding User Discovery of ETD: Metadata or Full-Text, How Did They Get There?: Presentation for the 2015 US Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses understanding user discovery of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and whether users make use of metadata records when searching or full text searching.
Knowledge Sharing Practices Among Faculty Members in Higher Education Institutions: Presentation asserts that knowledge is regarded as an organization's most valuable strategic resources. This presentation highlights and discusses knowledge sharing practices among faculty members in higher education institutions.
On the Open Road: The Story of an OA Publication through the Stakeholders Journey: Presentation discusses the process to publishing an open access book, and they discuss the critical role of OA in facilitating equitable global education. Authors of the presentation also introduce current and future work in the area of open access.
Open Access Increases Educators Ability to Plan Equitable Curriculum: Global Context: This presentation gives an overview of Open Access including its definition, basic assumptions, open access registries, technology and trends, technological structure, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities. It then applies this to the need for developing countries' contributions to global knowledge production and creating institutional initiatives.
Reducing Epistemic Injustices in Scholarly Output Management: Individual and Collective Levels: Presentation discusses scholarly output dissemination and production in different disciplines. It also touches on the role of open access and the removal of barriers in facilitating access and enhancing the research impact.
Scholars Experiencing Epistemic Injustice Due to Management of Scholarly Outputs: Presentation describes the ways scholars experience epistemic injustice. Authors of the presentation claim that these cases of epistemic injustice are due to management of scholarly outputs.
Open Access and Open Educational Resources for Equitable Scholarly Communication: Rethinking Educational Planning Post-COVID: Presentation that discusses Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER) in light of the iniquities in scholarly communication that were made more apparent by the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation discusses how OA and OER can address social justice concerns, improve scholarly communication, and facilitate equitable educational planning.
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.
Ensuring Universal Access for the Global Information Flow: Responding to the Demands of Scholarship in the Digital Age: This presentation was presented in Session 6.4 Reports of Current Research (Juried Papers), at the 2005 ALISE Conference. It summarizes current situations and developing trends in information technologies. Africa is used as a case to illustrate how local policies have played important roles in the process of information globalization.
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.
The Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Communication: Stakeholders' Roles in a Global Ecosystem: Presentation for a panel at the 2014 University Partnerships Workshop, sponsored by the U. S. Department of State and the U. S. Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan. This presentation discusses the evolving landscape of scholarly communication and stakeholders' roles in a global ecosystem.
Beyond Scholarly Communications: The Role of Open Access in Facilitating Digital Preservation: Presentation asserts that ensuring long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing cultural heritage intuitions today. This presentation looks broadly into the contributions that open access (OA) has made towards facilitating the preservation of data.
Digital Innovation in Education: the Evolution of Open Access: Presentation details digital innovation in education, specifically, the evolution of open access.
The Role of Open Access in Promoting Equitable and Human-Centered Teaching and Learning Environment: Post-Pandemic Academia: Presentation discusses how the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier. All these developments provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable content and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations.
Extractive Automatic Text Summarization Techniques for Afaan Oromoo - Afroasiatic Language in Ethiopia: Presentation describes how there is an enormous amount of textual materials, which can be difficult for humans to distil effectively. Researchers have targeted producing summaries of doctors' prescriptions, lengthy information articles. These manner readers can take advantage of quite a few records on numerous subjects inside a brief span.
Assessing the Usage of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: An Overview of ETD Statistics and Metrics in the UNT Libraries: Presentation for the 2011 Texas Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs) Association Annual Conference. This presentation gives an overview of ETD statistics and metrics in the UNT Libraries.
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.
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.
Open Access and the Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Communication: Presentation for Addis Ababa University on open access and the evolving landscape of scholarly communication.
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.
Application of Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine: Lesson for Ethiopia, Systematic Review: This presentation asserts that in Ethiopia, the BDA concept and its implementation are either not know or left insignificant. The aim of this study was to investigate the current trends, challenges and opportunities of applying BDA in precision medicine globally and take lessons for Ethiopia.
Data-Driven Decision-Making Practice in Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia: This presentation details how the authors' study investigates the practice of data-driven decision-making in higher education institutions in Ethiopia. The study also involved interviews with two directors from the university's education program relevance and enhancement office and four senior officers from library departments.
Towards Reducing Epistemic Injustices Identified During Fulbright Experiences: Presentation describes how teaching is one of the activities as a Fulbright Scholar. Alemneh describes a plethora of open-source tools and technologies used to prepare, organize and deliver the courses I taught.
Balancing Scholarly Activities, Primary Assignments and Service to the Community: Presentation for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries as part of the career development program. This presentation discusses getting started on a research project and balancing scholarly activities, primary assignments, and service to the community.
Open Access in the Age of Pandemic: Presentation on the potential of open access to increase exposure and use of published research. The presentation includes sections on the impact of open access in relation to OA community initiatives, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the COVID-19 pandemic, and open access data.
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.
Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communications: The presentation is about changing the landscape of scholarly communications. The presentation describes how using social justice lenses could promote OA and OER.
Flexible OA Support in Academic Publishing: IGI Global's Premiere Platinum Open Access Book in Collaboration with University of North Texas: Presentation presents "Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications", and details chapter information.

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