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- Spotlight on North Texas: Final Performance Report
- Final performance report for the project Spotlight on North Texas, prepared for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). In collaboration with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, University of North Texas Libraries preserved and provided long-term digital access to materials related to Denton County's motion picture histories. This project was funded for $11,536.
- Open Access Publishing Fees: Responses, Strategies and Emerging Trends
- Presentation for the 2014 SWALL Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses open access, publishing fees, article processing charges, and research on campus open access funds.
- Metadata for ETD Lifecycle Management
- Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes the roles of metadata in facilitating the ETD lifecycle, methods to capture metadata manually and automatically, examples of programs using metadata to enhance ETD access, and strategies to manage metadata over time.
- Cleaning up Messy Data with Open Refine
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses the open source software OpenRefine and strategies for cleaning up messy data.
- From Common to Commons: Repurposing a Traditional Reading Room at the University of North Texas Science and Technology Library [Handout]
- This handout accompanies a presentation for the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Librarians Conference. The handout and presentation explain a project to repurpose a traditional reading room at the University of North Texas (UNT) Science and Technology Library.
- Getting started on Twitter: Communities and Conversations...
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses getting started and strategies for using the social media tool Twitter.
- From Common to Commons: Repurposing a Traditional Reading Room at the University of North Texas Science and Technology Library [Presentation]
- Presentation for the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Librarians Conference. This presentation discusses repurposing a traditional reading room at the University of North Texas (UNT) Science and Technology Library.
- Shared Metadata for Regional Landmarks: Building Names
- Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Special Collections Affinity Group meeting. This presentation discusses dealing with building names in digital collections.
- ImageMagick Workshop Handout
- This handout accompanies a workshop presentation for the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). The workshop introduces command-line image manipulation using the open source software ImageMagick.
- Command-Line Image Manipulation with ImageMagick
- Presentation slides from a workshop at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). These workshop slides introduce command-line image manipulation to its participants using the open source software ImageMagick.
- DataRes Project Institution Policy Scan Data
- Dataset from the DataRes Project indicating the name of the institutions in the study, funding awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) during the 2010-2011 fiscal year, whether institutions have a Data Management Policy, and the URL is a policy exists.
- DataRes Project Secondary Survey
- Dataset from the DataRes Project. This dataset is the secondary survey on data management needs of researchers.
- Texas Newspapers Natural Language Processing
- This dataset includes data on natural language processing from the Texas Newspapers Project. The dataset includes word counts, name entity recognition results, and topic models.
- DataRes Project Primary Survey
- Dataset from the DataRes Project. This dataset is the primary survey on data management needs of researchers.
- 11,664 kilometers across the sea: Bridging the student support gap to the Pacific Islands
- Presentation for the 2013 International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Conference. This presentation discusses the LEAP program at UNT and bridging the student support gap to the Pacific Islands.
- On the Removal of Download Access to Grateful Dead Soundboards from the Live Music Archive
- Article on the removal of download access to Grateful Dead soundboards from the Live Music Archive.
- Prospects for Research Data Management
- Paper included in a report for the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) on research data management and the DataRes Project. This chapter highlights some of the most provocative findings of the DataRes Project on the topic of research data management in higher education and possible scenarios for the future and the implications of these scenarios.
- Research Data Management in Policy and Practice: The DataRes Project
- Paper for a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) report on research data management. This paper reports on data management and the DataRes Project.
- The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto
- Paper included in a report for the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) on research data management and the DataRes Project. This section reports on The Denton Declaration. Abstract: On May 22, 2012, at the University of North Texas, a group of technologists and librarians, scholars and researchers, university administrators, and other stakeholders gathered to discuss and articulate best practices and emerging trends in research data management. This declaration bridges the converging interests of these stakeholders and promotes collaboration, transparency, and accountability across organizational and disciplinary boundaries.
- Exhibits @ UNT. An Implementation Proposal
- Report for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries proposing new methods and ideas for displaying online exhibits.
- The Value of Open Access to Undergraduate Research
- Article describing the importance and value of open access to undergraduate research.
- Reengineering The Portal to Texas History
- This book chapter reports on a case study on the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system.
- Analysis of URL References in ETDs: A Case Study at the University of North Texas [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2013 International Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Symposium. The presentation gives an analysis of URL references in ETDs and a case study at the University of North Texas (UNT).
- OAI-ORE
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses how the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) are used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library. OAI-ORE define the standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.
- Experience Talks: Post-Digitization Quality Control Strategies and Tools
- This presentation discusses strategies for quality control during the post-digitization phase.
- Challenges in Web Archiving UNT Perspective
- This presentation discusses making Web archives more usable for libraries, building digital library collections from Web content, and understanding how Web archives should fit into traditional library metrics.
- Infrastructure for the UNT Digital Library
- This presentation discusses creating workflows for digitization projects as well as data models and descriptive metadata schema. It describes the processes of creating a workable model to digitize objects.
- Infrastructure for the UNT Digital Library
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit workflows, how they overcame challenges, and how the use of established models and standards helped them find solutions to the workflow. It presents the editing system created for the Digital Projects Unit, the organizational structure for each object, and identifiers.
- Storage 101: The Basics
- This presentation discusses storage options for digital content, questions to ask when planning, and things to consider for storing and digitizing data.
- Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation
- This paper will examine ongoing work between two major preservation systems, the Chronopolis Digital Preservation Program, and the MetaArchive Cooperative.
- Chronopolis, University of North Texas, MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation
- This presentation discusses how preservation systems can share objects and specifically a collaboration between Chronopolis, MetaArchive, and the University of North Texas (UNT).
- Digital Curation: Curation Micro-services approach to Building Repositories
- This presentation discusses digital curation, preservation and stewardship. The author provides information on Curation Micro-Services.
- Discover America's Cultural Heritage Collections on the Web
- This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library collections. It also discusses the invisible internet, other Texas digital collections, other large digital collections, major digital collections in other states, subscription databases, and gives strategies for searching all of these databases.
- The Portal to Texas History and Digital Projects at UNT
- This presentation discusses the two digital collections in the UNT Libraries, The Portal to Texas History and the Digital Library. It discusses the benefits of these collections, how the partnerships work with organizations who contribute to the collections, and gives examples of the projects and items within these two collections.
- Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)
- This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2010.
- 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.
- Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Support a Modern Research Library
- Presentation for the University of Oklahoma series "Beyond our Walls: A Conversation with Mark Phillips." This presentation discusses the digital library activities at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the use of the existing digital library infrastructure to build research collections that support a growing research institution.
- Managing Data at the UNT Libraries
- Presentation for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Content Workgroup. This presentation discusses managing data at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
- Digital Collection Development Policy: From Documenting Content to Documenting Process
- Poster presented at the 2010 Document Academy Annual Meeting. This poster discusses digital collection development policies and documenting content and processes.
- "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.
- 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.
- Managing Serials in a Large Digital Collection: Case Study of the UNT Libraries Digital Collections
- Presentation for the 2014 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses serials in the UNT digital collections, including ways of finding/browsing serials, how we describe them in the metadata, and examples of various exceptions.
- Innovation and Sustainability in Digital Publishing
- This presentation accompanies introductory remarks given as a panelist in the session "Publishing and Preserving OA Content" during the 2014 Open Access Symposium, "The Business and Economics of Open Access."
- The Quick and the Dirty: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Database Overlap at the Journal Title Level
- Presentation for the 2014 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Annual Conference on database overlap at the journal title level.
- Applying Visual Arts Pedagogy in the Training of New Digital Imaging Technicians
- Presentation for the 2014 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses applying visual arts pedagogy in the training of new digital imaging technicians.
- A Model for Integrating the Publication and Preservation of Journal Articles
- Presentation for Open Repositories 2014 discussing a model for integrating the publication and preservation of journal articles.
- Command-line Tools for Digital Preservation
- Presentation for a 2011 command-line workshop at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. This presentation discusses command-line tools for digital curation and preservation.
- Automated Creation of Analytic Catalog Records for Born-Digital Journal Articles
- Article summarizing the approach to bibliographic metadata development at the University of Michigan Library for journal articles published and archived in HathiTrust.
- Understanding Repository Growth at the University of North Texas: A Case Study
- This paper discusses a case study on understanding repository growth at the University of North Texas (UNT).
- Retrospective Digitization of Theses and Dissertations: Revisiting Issues and Considerations
- Poster presented at the 2011 U.S. ETD Annual Conference. The poster describes the digitization of theses and dissertations at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.