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Digital Curation Micro-Applications: Digital Lifecycle Management with AutoHotkey
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Weidner, Andrew; Wilson, Robert John & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This poster discusses open source software tools coded with AutoHotkey that the UNT digital libraries group has developed for digital curation during the pre-ingest stage of the digital resource lifecycle.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159530/
[Handout to Accompany Poster on Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard]
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Description: Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata." In includes examples of dates that meet Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards, examples of problems encountered when normalizing date displays for users, additional statistics related to already-valid dates in the digital collections at the time that the standards were formally adopted, and links to online materials.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159536/
[Handout to Accompany Poster on Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports]
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Willis, Shannon
Description: Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort." In includes a brief overview of the project, a list of hardware and software used in the project, and a detailed list of the steps for each stage of the process (Inventory, Scanning, Processing, Metadata, and Upload).
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159537/
How Digital Libraries can Create a Culture of Open Access on Campus
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Najmi, Anjum; Waugh, Laura; Helge, Kris; Stark, Shannon & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Description: This panel presentation discusses how digital libraries can create a culture of open access on campus. Five panelists discuss their perspectives, strategies, challenges, and progress.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159535/
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/
Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region's Maps Online
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Jones, Jerrell; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Phillips, Mark Edward; Hodges, Ann & Kadri, Carolyn
Description: This poster discusses the Mapping the Southwest Project, involving putting our region's maps online. The poster includes background information on the project, the project plan, workflow and equipment, and the impacts and lessons learned.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159528/
Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Description: Poster illustrating the workflow used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit to digitize large numbers of TRAIL (Technical Report and Image Library) documents. The poster outlines five stages: [1] "Inventory," in which staff account for items received and route un-cut reports for disbinding before adding them to the scanning queue, [2] "Scanning," in which regularly-sized pages are scanned on a duplex scanner and fold-out pages are scanned on flatbed or planetary scanners, [3] "Processing," in which files are deskewed, resized, compressed, rotated, etc., and quality control checks identify errors, [4] "Metadata," in which the MARC records for the reports are converted into XML and a metadata creator fills in additional fields, and [5] "Online," in which reports are publicly available on the UNT Digital Library.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159538/
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/
Utilizing Digital Library Infrastructure to Build Modern Research Collections
Date: April 24, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This keynote presentation covers the opportunities that digital library infrastructure offers if utilized effectively as a tool to build novel research collections. It highlights examples from the UNT Libraries and other institutions, which demonstrate these concepts.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159539/
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/