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Designing Information Communities for the 3D Environment
Date: 2002
Creator: Hastings, Samantha Kelly; Rowe, Timothy; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Lewis, Elise; Noot, Walter; Arroyo, Miguel Morales et al
Description: This panel presentation provides a summary of current research efforts in 3D imaging technologies, including how metadata fit into the panorama of building information communities.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc40416/
Developing the ICT Infrastructure for Africa: Overview of Barriers to Harnessing the Full Power of the Internet
Date: 2006
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Description: This article discusses developing the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for Africa. Abstract: The synergies of numerous emerging trends are shaping creation, access, use and preservation of information resources. The digital library environment provides scholars with access to more diverse and previously unavailable contents that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations. Although the uses of Internet technologies provide new directions for scholarship, there are discrepancies among nations and regions. These technologies have not been fully exploited in Africa in particular. As research and scientific inquiry depend on both the availability of heterogeneous resources from multiple sources and their openness to easy and continued access, addressing the universal access is paramount. This article discusses and provides an overview of some of the barriers or principal factors most likely to influence Africa's efforts in harnessing the full power of the Internet.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38890/
Development of a Portal to Texas History
Date: 2005
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Belden, Dreanna; Reis, Nancy; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Dunlop, Doug
Description: This article discusses the development of The Portal to Texas History. Abstract: Purpose: To help information professionals learn about issues and considerations in portal building. Design/methodology/approach: The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History provides long-term storage and access to digital copies of important original materials illuminating Texas' past. This article describes the development of the Portal technology and content - presenting objectives, processes, and future plans - and defines the larger goal of facilitating collaboration among resource-holding institutions. Findings: Practical aspects of creating and populating the Portal include development of specifications and standards, construction of an application framework, selection of content, production of metadata, and refinement of user interfaces. Planned future enhancements to the Portal will augment sustainability and provide added value for users. The Portal project may also serve as a catalyst for wider collaborative efforts in digitization. Originality/Value: The Portal to Texas History project's experiences described in this article will inform other stakeholders seeking to develop innovative uses of Portal technologies.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29313/
Digital Collection Development Policy: From Documenting Content to Documenting Process
Date: 2010
Creator: Hall, Nathan; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This poster discusses collection policies. Drawing from the experience of developing digital collections and a digital library infrastructure, the University of North Texas Libraries is developing a new collection policy specifically to meet the unique needs of digital collection building. This poster discusses new opportunities and challenges in digital life cycle managements in general.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29289/
Digital Curation: Curation Micro-services approach to Building Repositories
Date: November 8, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation discusses digital curation, preservation and stewardship. The author provides information on Curation Micro-Services.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29803/
Digital Curation Micro-Applications: Digital Lifecycle Management with AutoHotkey
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Weidner, Andrew; Wilson, Robert John & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This poster discusses open source software tools coded with AutoHotkey that the UNT digital libraries group has developed for digital curation during the pre-ingest stage of the digital resource lifecycle.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc159530/
Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE
Date: February 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Weidner, Andrew
Description: This document accompanies a poster and discusses metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE. Abstract: Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the myriad challenges at various stages of the data lifecycle. Digital curation activities enhance access and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and facilitate use and re-use over time. Digital resource lifecycle management is becoming an increasingly important topic as digital curators actively explore tools and applications that directly perform curation and management tasks. Accordingly, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries develop and/or adopt various tools, workflows, and quality control mechanisms that enable quick and effective analysis and quality assurance. This brief paper demonstrates automated metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE, an open source, Web-based tool which UNT has adopted for use during the post-ingestion stage of the data lifecycle.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146565/
Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE
Date: February 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Weidner, Andrew
Description: This poster discusses metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE. Digital lifecycle management starts when an item is created (born-digital) or selected for digitization (analog) and continues through image post-processing, metadata capture, derivative creation, and preservation for long-term access. Quality metadata is crucial to implementing reliable, usable, and sustainable digital libraries. Recognizing the role of standardized metadata in digital resource lifecycle management, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries actively promote metadata-based digital resource management. The UNT Digital Libraries Division utilizes various tools to ensure metadata consistency and precision across all digital resources and facilitate digital curation activities. This poster illustrates a workflow that uses Selenium IDE to edit large sets of published metadata records quickly and accurately with minimal human intervention.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146571/
Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries
Date: January 28, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28340/
Digital Library Evaluation
Date: March 9, 2011
Creator: Hall, Nathan
Description: This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital libraries and methods used to evaluate these collections and the practices for developing and maintaining them.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc32885/