Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas
Date: October 22, 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Description: This presentation discusses 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.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29305/
Beyond Google: Promoting Digitized Primary Sources in First-Year Writing
Date: March 15, 2013
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Description: This presentation discusses promoting digitized primary sources in research. Topics include the background and interest in the subject, key term definitions, examples of items and usage, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) K-12 teaching resources, and FYC application.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc155618/
Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?
Date: July 10, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Description: This presentation discusses the costs and values of digital collections. It looks at the digital collections held at the University of North Texas (UNT) and does a cost comparison of the options based on their choices including the expenses that are related to building their digital collections.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29794/
Brown bag on iConference - 2013
Date: March 5, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This presentation was created for a brown bag luncheon about the 2013 iConference. It includes discussion on participants, the venues, programs, the role of the UNT Libraries, and reflections on the event.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc152427/
Building Digital Archives
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Description: This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28350/
Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections
Date: May 31, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation describes the infrastructure and collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital initiatives. This discusses issues related to searching and explains possible solutions to best enhance metadata and searching capabilities.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28345/
Challenges in Web Archiving UNT Perspective
Date: July 21, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: 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.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28361/
Chronicles in Preservation: Curation Practices for Born-Digital and Digitized Newspaper Collections
Date: April 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Walters, Tyler
Description: This presentation discusses the Chronicles in Preservation project. This project aims to study, document, and model the use of data preparation practices and distributed digital preservation frameworks to collaboratively preserve digitized and born-digital newspaper collections. This presentation gives the background of the Chronicles in Preservation project, the State of the Field report, and early findings.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86854/
Chronopolis, University of North Texas, MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation
Date: September 21, 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
Description: This presentation discusses how preservation systems can share objects and specifically a collaboration between Chronopolis, MetaArchive, and the University of North Texas (UNT).
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29802/
Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives
Date: May 3, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation is a brief outline of the End-of-Term archiving project done as a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas Libraries, and the California Digital Library.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28355/