- Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29305/
- Beyond Google: Promoting Digitized Primary Sources in First-Year Writing
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc155618/
- Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29794/
- Brown bag on iConference - 2013
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc152427/
- Building Digital Archives
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28350/
- Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28345/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28361/
- Chronicles in Preservation: Curation Practices for Born-Digital and Digitized Newspaper Collections
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86854/
- 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.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29802/
- Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28355/
- Collaboration in Practice: Megadata Happens
- This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how collaborations with other organizations has helped add to the collection. In this presentation, the author illustrates examples from The Portal to Texas History with information about metadata management, quality issues, and the automated systems in place by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29791/
- Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development: Born-Digital and Digitized Materials
- This presentation discusses the phases of web collection development, challenges with web archives, and the need and benefit for preserving web materials. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28321/
- Collaborative Digital Repository Opportunities
- This presentation discusses collaborative digital repository opportunities. The presentation offers questions and considerations as well as managing digital collections. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc139461/
- Collaborative Strategies for Digital Preservation of Newspapers
- This presentation discusses collaborative strategies for the digital preservation of newspapers. The University of North Texas (UNT) Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP), the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the Chronicles in Preservation Project are discussed with information on what they do, the importance of newspaper digitization projects, and how collaboration can further efforts in this area. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc87639/
- Collection Development and Management Issues
- This presentation discusses collection development and management issues. It describes considerations to keep in mind, suggestions and strategies, and ideas for successful digitization projects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84316/
- Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' strategies for creating digital collections and services from datasets and born digital objects and serving users outside of formal education and research. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30372/
- Community-Driven Approaches to Digital Preservation
- This presentation discusses community-driven approaches to digital preservation. The authors state the importance of collaboration and who is collaborating and how. In addition, information on some core principles of collaborative preservation and what these look like in practice. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86856/
- Connect With Your Part-Time Library Staff: Using Learning Styles to Individualize Training
- This presentation discusses ways in which supervisors can individualize their training of part-time library staff based on individual learning styles. It offers examples of training sessions, follow-ups, learning styles, assessments, and ideas for training improvement. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39332/
- Content Divide: Africa and the Global Knowledge Footprint
- This presentation discusses Africa and the global knowledge footprint. Abstract: In line with issues in international information, panel members aim to discuss the global knowledge footprint from a unique and distinct perspective. Framed here as 'content divide,' the focus is to present an international comparative analysis of knowledge production using scientific/technical research, and patent outputs of individual countries and regions across the world. The approach places emphasis on the connection between gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) and research performance mainly by higher education institutions; innovation activities using patent registration as one key indicator, and the role of national education and research network (NREN) as key enabler to foster research productivity. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122171/
- A Cost-Benefit Approach for Describing and Processing Digital Objects
- This presentation discusses the costs and benefits associated with creating the metadata and ensuring metadata quality in The Portal to Texas History. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29790/
- Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Collaborative Models for Digital Libraries in a Heterogeneous Institutional Landscape
- This presentation gives a brief overview of the collaborative efforts of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit and its partners in digitization projects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28357/
- Creating A Featured Book Display: Marrying old and new technologies
- This Tech Talk presentation describes the process used to select the individual works and the inspiration behind the solution to the problem - a physical representation of a digital object. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc139460/
- Crossing State Lines For Collaborative Newspaper Digitization: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
- This presentation discusses a collaborative project between the Oklahoma Historical Society and the University of North Texas (UNT) to digitize all of the pre-1923 newspapers in the Oklahoma Historical Society's collection. The project involved building The Gateway to Oklahoma History, which allows easy access to newspapers for students, researchers, and journalists. The project is funded in part by the Excellence and Ethics in Journalism Grant. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86155/
- Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs
- This presentation discusses data desiccation and facilitating long-term access, use and reuse of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). This presentation accompanies a paper and discusses UNT's ETDs curatorial activities including how ETDs users can benefit from desiccated versions, traditionally discussed only in a digital preservation context. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67602/
- DataRes Project Briefing
- This presentation discusses the DataRes Project. The DataRes Project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), investigates how the Library and Information Science (LIS) profession can best respond to the emerging needs of research data management in universities. DataRes is a collaboration between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, the UNT College of Information, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83317/
- DDA and STEM @ UNT: What we have learned
- This presentation discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at the University of North Texas (UNT). For the Texas STEM Librarians' Conference, the author will present data and information about the pilot program, and how the Discovery Collection and the purchased titles are distributed, particularly regarding the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Of particular interest is a scenario analysis of the selections to determine which purchase model would have been most effective for the money spent. This has already impacted decisions being made to expand the program in the next fiscal year. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc102303/
- Digital Archives: Where is the community in History?
- This presentation discusses digital archives and looks at the history community's presence in digital archives. The purpose of digitizing cultural heritage collections is often presented in terms of preservation or distribution. Concerns center around how to best ensure the sustainability of materials or how to enable user interactivity. However, especially within the field of history, there is a push to think in terms of how to create community through the narratives the authors produce. The authors orientation is shifting from author-centered to reader-centered, and how the authors construct knowledge is becoming increasingly social and democratic. This can be explained as part of a greater cultural shift where, "until recently, public memory was constructed and disseminated for the people but not by the people." This presentation explores such issues through the examination of three digital archives: 1) The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War site (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/). 2) The Virtual Vietnam Archive (http://911digitalarchive.org). After a brief description of each project, a critique is provided covering the four aspects of: motives, preservation, interactivity and barriers. While all three digital archives place a focus on personal narratives and deal with the complexities of conflict intimately, none of the projects manage to create the vibrant virtual community one might hope for or expect. This discovery indicates that there is more discussion needed about what purposes digital history resources might serve. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc122180/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29803/
- Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries
- This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28340/
- Digital Library Evaluation
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital libraries and methods used to evaluate these collections and the practices for developing and maintaining them. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc32885/
- Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit and how the system and software to create digital collections was developed. It also discusses the future plans for system and software changes in the Digital Projects Unit. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30373/
- Digital Rights, Media and Practice: The Right to Bear Arms in the Information Age
- This presentation discusses digital rights, media and practice. On the streets and in social media Occupy Wall Street captured the imagination of the United States and exposed tensions between the NYPD's policies of surveillance and our basic freedoms. It gave us an example of the deep power of voice residing in digital culture and the problems that arise when this voice is met with heavy governmental restrictions, many of them the result of preemptive information policies. As a photographer who has experienced deep transformations in her own practice because of digital technology, the author is curious of the ways in which digital photography is transforming and reflective of culture. The power of an image making populace can transform the balance of the status quo. In a context of power, mobility and changing landscapes, a new set of tools is enabling and exposing tensions of culture and rights. This presentation will explore the smart phone as a daily tool and an information weapon whose protection could be considered under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Right to Bear Arms. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130198/
- Digitization 101
- This presentation introduces topics related to digital libraries, including, digital asset management, metadata, controlled vocabularies, and digital preservation. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36279/
- Digitization Basics for Museums
- This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and illustrates what types of items are in the collection and the resources available to museums, educators, and partners. It also discusses the future goals of The Portal to Texas History. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29786/
- Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries
- This presentation gives a basic outline of the work flow and processes involved within the Digital Projects Unit. Topics include scanning, digital preservation, and staffing. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28367/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29796/
- Distributed Digital Preservation ETD Workshop
- This presentation is designed to provide institutions with Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) initiatives with information about preserving ETDs. In this presentation, the authors discuss ETDs and preservation needs, MetaArchive and distributed preservation, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)/MetaArchive ETD DDPN Archive, collections management for preservation, MetaArchive and its member roles and responsibilities, and the ETD Lifecycle Management Project. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc86861/
- The Educational Background of Academic Library Deans
- This presentation discusses a study of the educational backgrounds of academic library deans. This study uses quantitative methods to study the degrees and majors of all 123 academic library deans at Association of research Libraries (ARL) institutions. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67610/
- Effective Tools for Digital Object Management
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit workflow for digitization, including organizing materials, using a Wiki project page, internal workflow, managing objects and identifiers, and using a Magick Numbering system. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29799/
- Electronic Archives and Partnerships - Preserving Government Information for Tomorrow
- This presentation discusses electronic archives, partnerships, and preserving government information. In this presentation, the authors discuss digital libraries and the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). They present the background of the FDLP, developing the Memorandum of Understanding, the CyberCemetary, and gives a current status of the FDLP. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc152423/
- End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive: PDF Content Analysis
- This presentation discusses the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries collaborated with members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) on the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Harvest from October, 2008 to February, 2009. The project team archived 160,211,356 URIs during this collaboration, which became a research dataset for an IMLS-funded grant to investigate collection development using web archives. The project team analyzed the 10,318,073 PDFs and developed a retrieval and exploration system for collection developers interested in acquiring and developing born-digital collections from the End of Term Web Archive. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130188/
- Enemies of History: Murderers of the Past
- This presentation is about a workshop for high school students. The workshop focused on preservation and how it relates to the study of history. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc32990/
- Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital resource management. The UNT Libraries participate in a number of collaborative and in-house digital initiatives. In managing digital resources, the Libraries utilize locally qualified Dublin Core-based descriptive metadata along with detailed technical and preservation metadata elements. Metadata quality is influenced by both local and collaborative requirements. Because poor metadata quality can result in ambiguity, poor recall and inconsistent search results, the UNT Libraries use quality assurance mechanisms during metadata creation and employ specialized metadata analysis tools after the files are ingested into digital archives. Templates, validation, controlled vocabularies, analysis tools, graphical reports, and more are explained in this presentation. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29296/
- 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. It raises an important issue in the development of globalization which emphasizes the efficiency of modern technologies in delivering information to people around the world. Africa is used as a case to illustrate how local policies have played important roles in the process of information globalization. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29293/
- Experience Talks: Post-Digitization Quality Control Strategies and Tools
- This presentation discusses strategies for quality control during the post-digitization phase. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28348/
- Exploring the Texas Revolution Online through The Portal to Texas History
- This presentation illustrates examples of items held in The Portal to Texas History collection and how these works contribute to learning about the history of the Texas Revolution. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29792/
- Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' web harvesting system organization. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28352/
- Federated Search
- This presentation discusses federated and faceted searching including target audiences, expectations, approaches, protocols, uses, and issues. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28362/
- Folksonomy
- This Tech Talk presentation explores Folksonomy. Web 2.0 is indeed more than just a buzzword; it is the foundation for delivering a rich experience to end users on the Web while leveraging the benefits of composite applications and ubiquity of the Internet. Folksonomy is a user-generated system that allows users to tag their favorite digital resources with their chosen natural-language words or phrases. The tagging is done in a social environment, or may be generated and shared collaboratively by the creators and consumers of Web content. These tags can be used to classify Web resources and to express users' preferences. In this Tech Talk, the author explores some of the more common aspects of the Folksonomy in the context of Web 2.0. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29300/
- Footholds and Foundations: Setting Freshman on the Path to Lifelong Learning
- This presentation discusses an assessment in which the researchers collaborated with a software developer to create an online survey form for college freshman. This assessment was conducted to determine what skills college freshman have in relation to the libraries and research. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc32988/