Description: This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. This series features Dr. Dornith Doherty, professor in the College of Arts and Design, Dr. Pankaj Jain, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Public Affairs and Community Service, and Jennifer Jensen Wallach, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Dornith Doherty talks about her project, Archiving Eden, involving photographs of seed bank collections around the world. Dr. Pankaj Jain discusses Hinduism, Jainism, and the 2000 years of vegetarianism in South Asia. Dr. Jennifer Wallach, whose book, How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture, is coming out in early December, will focus on food and race.

Description: This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling. This series features Dr. Adam Briggle, assistant professor of philosophy and religion studies, Dr. Matthew Fry, assistant professor of geography, Dr. Chetan Tiwari, assistant professor of geography and Nathanial Smith, a senior geography major.

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.

Description: This poster presentation is based on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital libraries implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.

Description: This poster discusses issues related to portal building and explores compliance and interoperability issues. It also assesses the current status and the emerging trends in innovative uses of portal technologies and provides an overall scenario. In context of aggregating a variety of formats, bundling preservation metadata to facilitate long-term access, setting project standards and best practice guidelines, and coordinating a variety of collaborative efforts for participating institutions.