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Implementing a Serial Title Database: A UNT Case Study
Presentation outlining information about the deployment of a new serial title database in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections, including background information, purpose of the database, record modeling, and integration into the public interface.
Moving the End of Term Web Archive to the Cloud to Encourage Research Use and Reuse
Presentation given at the 2022 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Virtual Workshop, in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), on June 24, 2022. This presentation discusses the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive project and process of organizing, staging, processing, and moving these collections into the Amazon cloud.
Moving the End of Term Web Archive to the Cloud to Encourage Research Use and Reuse
Short paper presented at the 2022 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Virtual Workshop, in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), on June 24, 2022. The paper discusses the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive project and process of organizing, staging, processing, and moving these collections into the Amazon cloud.
Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity
UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity. Ultimately choosing to adapt the Points Process System developed by the University of Northwestern.
Digital Library Federation 2019 Capacity Presentation Script
Script notes for the presentation "Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity" at the 2019 Digital Library Federation Forum. UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity.
Updates from the 3DHotbed Collection
This presentation highlights the progress of the 3D History of the Book Education (3Dhotbed) collection. The team has focused on creating workflows, promoting the collection, adding new material, and assessment of the collection by users. It was presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries held in Austin, Texas.
Book History Meets 3D: The 3Dhotbed Project
This presentation is an overview of the 3Dhotbed Project that seeks to enhance book history instruction by providing access to affordable teaching tools and related materials for pedagogical purposes. It was presented at the Born to Be 3D: Digital Stewardship of Intrinsic 3D Data conference held by the Library of Congress on November 2, 2018.
Beyond Makerspaces: Fabricating a Bibliographic Community
This presentation focuses on the 3Dhotbed collection's goal of creating a bibliographic community. The team discusses their challenges of broadening the project while ensuring quality metadata and long-term preservation. It was presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum held in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 15-17, 2018.
History 9-1-1: How University of North Texas Libraries Save Newspaper Runs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program
Presentation for the 2018 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions International News Media Conference. This presentation describes how the Texas Digital Newspaper Program partners with other libraries and museum to preserve materials, and how this can act as a safeguard after natural disasters in the area.
The Portal to Texas History: Walking in the Footprints of History
Presentation for the Cedar Hill Genealogy Society. This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History can facilitate genealogical research.
Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries
Paper presented at the 2018 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications Initiative (DCMI). This paper describes work underway at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to design and implement interfaces and tools for analyzing metadata quality in their local metadata editing environment.
Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection
Presentation for the 2018 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation applies the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate collection development strategies for an institutional repository.
Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection
This paper applies the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate collection development strategies for an institutional repository.
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
This article describes how the 3Dhotbed project (an acronym for “3D Printed History of the Book Education”) harnesses maker culture to advance book history instruction by providing open-access 3D data through a digital library platform.
Our Users, Our Selves: Evaluating user experience on The Portal to Texas History
Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the development and results of a usability study to understand how users navigate The Portal to Texas History.
3DHotbed Project 2017-2018 Update
Presentation for the 2018 Day of Digital Humanities at the University of North Texas Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of the 3D History of the Book Education (3D Hotbed) project and an update on future developments.
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.
Local, State, National, and International Collaborations
Presented at the 2017 International Digital Preservation Day. This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' involvement in local, state, national, and international preservation activities.
Metadata in UNT Libraries Digital Collections
Presented at the 2017 International Digital Preservation Day. This presentation discusses the importance of metadata in digital preservation and how it is used by UNT Digital Libraries to enhance digital preservation activities.
UNT Libraries Digital Projects Lab
Presented at the 2017 International Digital Preservation Day. This presentation discusses the workflow procedures of the UNT Libraries Digital Projects Lab.
Documenting Institutional Knowledge Through TRAC Self Audit: Case Study
Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation explores the Trusted Repository Audit and Checklist through the lens of contextual dimensions within knowledge management, using the case study of the University of North Texas Libraries.
Big Data and Government Information
Panel for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This panel presentation examines various issues of big data applications for governmental information.
Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices
Poster for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster discusses data sharing practices and compliance with open data mandates by using the Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) knowledge transfer spiral model to understand behaviors and create resources for researchers.
Cost and Feasibility of FADGI Compliance for the Digital Projects Unit: Final Report
This report documents the Cost and Feasibility of FADGI Compliance for the Digital Projects Unit project funded through the 2016 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the Cost and Feasibility of FADGI Compliance for the Digital Projects Unit project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
What's Brewing at UNT: Final Report
This report documents the What's Brewing at UNT project funded through the 2016 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the What's Brewing at UNT project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
3Dhotbed
Presented at the 2017 Code4Lib South Central Conference. This presentation provides an overview of the 3Dhobed project, including the process of 3D scanning, modeling, and printing hand moulds for book history instruction.
Tracing Our Global Connections: A Bibliographic Analysis of UNT Digital Library Item Usage Among Global ETDs
Presentation at the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. This presentation provides an overview of a bibliographic analysis of University of North Texas Digital Library items used in global electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Fostering Connections: Creating an IR Managers Forum
Presentation at the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. This presentation discusses the creation of the IR Managers Forum.
Name Authority Files in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections
Presentation as part of a panel titled "From Authority Control to Identity Management: Managing--Not Controlling" at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2017 annual conference. These slides provide an overview of name authority control in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections, including authority creation, authority records and their structured data, and entering names in the metadata editing system.
Collaborating to Promote Cultural Identity in Public Libraries through the Portal to Texas History
This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History serves as a digital preservation infrastructure and as a community identity preservation vehicle.
3D Printing Book History: Extending bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing
Presented at the 2017 Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Conference. This seminar focuses on work extending bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing
3Dhotbed: Harnessing 3D Technologies and Data to Teach the History of the Book
Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation includes the case study of developing 3D models of the tools, hosting the resulting data in the digital library, and the pedagogical opportunities the project has afforded.
Preservation of and Access to Government Information and Data: Accounts from the Field
Video of the panel session "Preservation of and Access to Government Information and Data: Accounts from the Field" for the 2017 Open Access Symposium with presentations on the End of Term Archive, the US Government Publishing Office, the Data Refuge initiative, and the Preservation of Electronic Government Information group.
3D Printing Book History: Extending Bibliographical Pedagogy Through Additive Manufacturing
Presented at the 2017 Day of Digital Humanities. This presentation provides an overview of the 3Dhotbed project to extend bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing.
Texas Digital newspapers: Newspaper Preservation and DH Projects
This presentation provides an overview of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and includes examples of digital humanities projects utilizing the program.
An Exploratory Study of the Description Field in the Digital Public Library of America
This paper presents results of an exploratory, quantitative analysis regarding the application of a free-text Description metadata element and data values associated with this element within aggregated metadata harvested from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections
This presentation contains a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
Characteristics of Tweets about African Cultural Heritage
This article investigates broad characteristics of tweets about African cultural heritage with possible implications for marketing by cultural heritage administrators and other stakeholders.
Identifier Usage and Maintenance in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections
Presentation for the 2016 DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. This presentation discusses the various ways that the UNT Libraries creates identifiers for objects and vocabulary values.
Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) in the Digital Public Library of America's Metadata: Exploratory Analysis
This paper presents results of an exploratory analysis of representation of dates in over 8 million metadata records from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and compares it to Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) specifications.
Appendix A: UNT Libraries TRAC Audit Checklist
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix outlines the requirements of a Trusted Digital Library by metric, with example evidence and its location as addressed within the TRAC Conformance Document.
Appendix B: Formal Statement of Conformance to ISO 14721:2012
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix contains a formal statement of conformance to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model, based on the official standard ISO 14721:2012.
Appendix C: Collection Development Policy for the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix describes the policies governing the acquisition, curation, and management of materials in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections.
Appendix D: The Portal Partnership Agreement
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix contains a Portal Partnership Agreement outlining the agreement between partner institutions and the University of North Texas when contributing items to the Portal to Texas History.
Appendix E: Portal Memorandum of Agreement for Digital Rights
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix contains the Memorandum of Agreement for Digital Rights, which describes the permissions granted to the University of North Texas when contributing items to the Portal to Texas History.
Appendix F: Digital Library Memorandum of Agreement for Digital Rights
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix contains the Memorandum of Agreement for Digital Rights, which describes the permissions granted to the University of North Texas when contributing items to the UNT Digital Library.
Appendix G: Travel and Professional Development Documentation
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix contains a table of conferences and related travels by members of the UNT Digital Libraries Division from 2013 to 2015.
Appendix H: UNT Libraries' Digital Preservation Policy Framework
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix describes the University of North Texas Libraries' digital stewardship efforts.
Appendix I: Timetable for Documentation Review
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix contains the review schedule for specific technical documents.
Appendix J: UNT Libraries' Digital Collections Usage and Feedback Policy
Appendix to the UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document. This appendix describes the policies governing the interaction of external users with materials in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections.
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