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Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project

Description: In this paper, the authors describe research led by Educopia Institute regarding the preservation needs for digitized and born-digital newspapers. The 'Chronicles in Preservation' project, builds upon previous efforts (e.g. the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program) to look more broadly at the needs of digital newspapers in all of their diverse and challenging forms. This paper conveys the findings of the first research phase, including substantive survey results regarding digital newspaper cā€¦ more
Date: October 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Schultz, Matt; Halbert, Martin & Phillips, Mark Edward
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Digitization 101

Description: This document discusses digitization processes, including computer hardware, setting up the computer with Windows XP, setting up Windows 7 for digital projects, identifiers, folder management, standards, scanning, and digital preservation.
Date: April 11, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Moore, Jeremy D. & Hall, Nathan

Digitization Basics for Museums

Description: 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.
Date: April 5, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
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Digitization of Government Information

Description: Report submitted by an American Libraries Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) ad hoc committee charged to "create a report advising GODORT on the best practices and procedures in the digital library field and advise GODORT on the most effective organizational structure for support of the government information community in pursuing digital library initiatives" (p. 2).
Date: June 14, 2002
Creator: American Library Association. Government Documents Round Table. Ad Hoc Committee on Digitization Of Government Information.

Digitization Project Rubric

Description: Presentation for the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses a Project Completion Rubric developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to provide realistic estimates for digitization projects.
Date: April 28, 2015
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Rankins, Derek L.
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Digitizing Historical Publications: Enhancing the Official Electronic Collection of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

Description: This report discusses a project for digitizing historical publications and making them available online. The authors' goal will be to develop a process that balances level of access with the cost of digitizing and making the data available on the Internet.
Date: April 1999
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson

Digitizing Multilingual Newspapers for NDNP Grants

Description: Presentation gives information on how to digitize multilingual newspapers for National Digital Newspaper Program Grants. It includes steps that should be take prior to and after digitization. This presentation was given at the 2015 National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. on September 17, 2015.
Date: September 17, 2015
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn

Discover America's Cultural Heritage Collections on the Web

Description: 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.
Date: February 25, 2010
Creator: Belden, Dreanna

Distributed Digital Preservation ETD Workshop

Description: 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.
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: McMillan, Gail & Halbert, Martin
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Documenting Captured Records From Terrorist Organizations

Description: Article discussing documenting captured records from terrorist organizations. This article discusses documenting captured records from terrorist organizations. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, American forces captured 43,000 boxes of government documents and thousands of hours of previously unknown audio recordings. This article traces the release of these records, archival considerations, political initiatives, effect of these records on protecting the public, and future developments.
Date: 2011
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis
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