Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT Librarieshttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNT/browse/?sort=date_a&fq=dc_type:image_presentation&fq=str_degree_department:Digital+Projects+Unit2011-06-07T08:36:49-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT LibrariesMeeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29291/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29291/"><img alt="Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative" title="Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29291/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' initiatives to ensure long-term access to various digital resources.</p>The Future is in the Preservation Metadata2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29292/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29292/"><img alt="The Future is in the Preservation Metadata" title="The Future is in the Preservation Metadata" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29292/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the issue of digital preservation and how metadata provides a critical part of the solution to the preservation challenges from detecting preservation threats to promoting preventative measures.</p>XML for Text Markup: An Introduction to XML Markup2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28338/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28338/"><img alt="XML for Text Markup: An Introduction to XML Markup" title="XML for Text Markup: An Introduction to XML Markup" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28338/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation introduces the extensible markup language (XML) for text markup. It explains where XML came from, the advantages, gives a comparison of XML to HTML, and discusses how XML works and can be used.</p>Annexation of Texas Project2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28337/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28337/"><img alt="Annexation of Texas Project" title="Annexation of Texas Project" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28337/small/"/></a></p><p>Presentation for the 2003 GODART Preconference at the American Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation outlines the "From Republic to State: Debates and Documents Relating to the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1856" project. This grant funded project involved digitizing 6000 objects.</p>Metadata and XML2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28339/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28339/"><img alt="Metadata and XML" title="Metadata and XML" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28339/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses how XML can help store metadata. The University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit developed the UNTL metadata element set with IndexData that tailored the data to meet their needs.</p>The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries2010-12-09T15:25:46-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29801/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29801/"><img alt="The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries" title="The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29801/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses how The Portal to Texas History is harnessing technology to enable collaboration with small museums and libraries. This presentation includes information on the workflows, planning, metadata elements, and goals for the Portal project.</p>Needs Assessment Toolkit2011-03-31T15:41:49-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc32892/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc32892/"><img alt="Needs Assessment Toolkit" title="Needs Assessment Toolkit" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc32892/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the needs assessment toolkit created for the Web-at-Risk project. This presentation outlines the details related to the web archive development process and the activities related to the needs assessment.</p>Federated Search2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28362/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28362/"><img alt="Federated Search" title="Federated Search" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28362/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses federated and faceted searching including target audiences, expectations, approaches, protocols, uses, and issues.</p>Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: UNT's Congressional Research Service Reports Archive2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28363/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28363/"><img alt="Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: UNT's Congressional Research Service Reports Archive" title="Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: UNT's Congressional Research Service Reports Archive" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28363/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation describes the University of North Texas' Congressional Research Services (CRS) Report Archive project. The idea is to capture all CRS reports made available on the web and archive them in one searchable and browsable spot.</p>Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28352/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28352/"><img alt="Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials" title="Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28352/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' web harvesting system organization.</p>Metadata Madness: Quality Issues in Metadata Management2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29295/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29295/"><img alt="Metadata Madness: Quality Issues in Metadata Management" title="Metadata Madness: Quality Issues in Metadata Management" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29295/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation provides an introductory discussion on metadata quality issues. It outlines factors that influence metadata quality including the resource types, local requirements, collaborators' requirements, and cost issues and addresses how to manage metadata quality.</p>Real World Metadata Management with the University of North Texas Libraries' Metadata Analysis Tool2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28353/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28353/"><img alt="Real World Metadata Management with the University of North Texas Libraries' Metadata Analysis Tool" title="Real World Metadata Management with the University of North Texas Libraries' Metadata Analysis Tool" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28353/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation gives a brief introduction to the University of North Texas Libraries' digital initiatives, their collections and projects, what metadata management is, and metadata analysis tools.</p>Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29296/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29296/"><img alt="Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management" title="Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29296/small/"/></a></p><p>This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital resource management. Templates, validation, controlled vocabularies, analysis tools, graphical reports, and more are explained in this presentation.</p>Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development: Born-Digital and Digitized Materials [Presentation]2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28321/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28321/"><img alt="Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development: Born-Digital and Digitized Materials [Presentation]" title="Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development: Born-Digital and Digitized Materials [Presentation]" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28321/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the phases of web collection development, challenges with web archives, and the need and benefit for preserving web materials.</p>Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28345/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28345/"><img alt="Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections" title="Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28345/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>Introduction to METS: UNT Libraries' Tech Talks2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28323/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28323/"><img alt="Introduction to METS: UNT Libraries' Tech Talks" title="Introduction to METS: UNT Libraries' Tech Talks" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28323/small/"/></a></p><p>This Tech Talk presentation explores METS. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. Maintained by the Library of Congress, it provides a standard vocabulary and set of data structures for encoding hierarchical digital object content and metadata. In this presentation the author explains more about these parts of METS, and discusses how METS may be applicable to digital collections in the UNT Libraries.</p>An Introduction to MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29297/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29297/"><img alt="An Introduction to MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema" title="An Introduction to MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29297/small/"/></a></p><p>This Tech Talks presentation offers an introduction to MODS. The presenter utilizes real life examples to show how MODS can be used with the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS).</p>Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Collaborative Models for Digital Libraries in a Heterogeneous Institutional Landscape2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28357/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28357/"><img alt="Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Collaborative Models for Digital Libraries in a Heterogeneous Institutional Landscape" title="Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Collaborative Models for Digital Libraries in a Heterogeneous Institutional Landscape" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28357/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.02010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29298/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29298/"><img alt="Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.0" title="Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.0" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29298/small/"/></a></p><p>In this presentation, the author defines Folksonomy and the advantages and disadvantages of Folksonomy. He begins with a background on information retrieval and changing technologies, discusses trends in technologies, and explains the use of tags and Folksonomy.</p>Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29299/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29299/"><img alt="Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management" title="Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29299/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the critical issues of metadata quality in digital libraries and describes the efforts being made by the University of North Texas Libraries to ensure metadata quality at various levels of digital resources' life cycle.</p>Rolling Your Own Digital Library System2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28368/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28368/"><img alt="Rolling Your Own Digital Library System" title="Rolling Your Own Digital Library System" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28368/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the topic of building your own digital library system. It explains why the University of North Texas built their own system and some of the initial challenges and the advantages associated with the process.</p>Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas2011-06-07T08:36:49-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36280/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36280/"><img alt="Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas" title="Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36280/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the preservation and digitization of content at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include a background of the digital initiatives at the UNT Libraries, the organization of the digital initiatives, the collaborative projects, the collections held by the UNT Libraries, and areas of research.</p>Web Archiving Workshop: Overview2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28343/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28343/"><img alt="Web Archiving Workshop: Overview" title="Web Archiving Workshop: Overview" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28343/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation gives a brief overview of the history of web archiving and explains key terms and concepts related to web archiving and harvesting with illustrated examples.</p>Web Archiving Workshop: Tools Overview2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28344/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28344/"><img alt="Web Archiving Workshop: Tools Overview" title="Web Archiving Workshop: Tools Overview" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28344/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation offers a brief discussion of web archiving tools. Tools include Wget, HTTrack, Heritrix, Wayback, and NutchWAX.</p>Using Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for Persistent Identification2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28359/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28359/"><img alt="Using Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for Persistent Identification" title="Using Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for Persistent Identification" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28359/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the usefulness of an Archival Resource Key (ARK) and how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Digital Projects Unit use ARKs in their system.</p>Building Digital Archives2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28350/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28350/"><img alt="Building Digital Archives" title="Building Digital Archives" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28350/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>Folksonomy2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29300/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29300/"><img alt="Folksonomy" title="Folksonomy" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29300/small/"/></a></p><p>This Tech Talk presentation explores Folksonomy. The author explores some of the more common aspects of folksonomies in the context of Web 2.0.</p>URL Nominating Tool2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28349/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28349/"><img alt="URL Nominating Tool" title="URL Nominating Tool" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28349/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation gives an overview of the URL Nominating TOOL project and defines some of the associated key concepts. It explores the entity attribute value data model, URL's and SURTs, and batch imports.</p>User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28351/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28351/"><img alt="User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library" title="User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28351/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit at the University of North Texas (UNT) and the IOGENE project. There are illustrated examples and discussion about the challenges faced with the IOGENE user studies.</p>2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28365/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28365/"><img alt="2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access" title="2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28365/small/"/></a></p><p>Presentation for the 2008 Depository Library Council Annual Meeting. This presentation outlines the history, tool building, partner activities and future work for a collaborative project between the University of North Texas, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.</p>Web Archiving at UNT and End of Term Harvest 20082010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28319/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28319/"><img alt="Web Archiving at UNT and End of Term Harvest 2008" title="Web Archiving at UNT and End of Term Harvest 2008" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28319/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation illustrates the collaborative project with the University of North Texas (UNT) and the United States Government Printing Office as part of the Federal Depository Library Program. The CyberCemetery was created as an online archive of government websites that have ceased operation. This also discusses the UNT collaboration with the United States Government Printing Office, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and the California Digital Library in an End of Term Harvest project in 2008 to archive the Presidential campaign websites before they ceased to exist.</p>Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28366/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28366/"><img alt="Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project" title="Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28366/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation explains the End of Term Presidential Harvest, a collaborative project to preserve U.S. Government web sites at the end of the 2008 Presidential election. The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, California Digital Library, University of North Texas, and the US Government Printing Office were the participating organizations for this project.</p>Effective Tools for Digital Object Management2010-12-09T15:25:46-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29799/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29799/"><img alt="Effective Tools for Digital Object Management" title="Effective Tools for Digital Object Management" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29799/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29301/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29301/"><img alt="Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience" title="Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29301/small/"/></a></p><p>Presentation on issues related to metadata quality management and demonstrates a number of tools, workflows, and quality assurance mechanisms employed by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.</p>The Portal to Texas History2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28320/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28320/"><img alt="The Portal to Texas History" title="The Portal to Texas History" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28320/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History was started, the processes involved, and how the IOGENE project developed. It discusses the many planning phases and reasons for the decisions that were made and illustrates the outcomes and how The Portal to Texas History works.</p>Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28340/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28340/"><img alt="Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries" title="Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28340/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives.</p>Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28367/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28367/"><img alt="Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries" title="Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28367/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>Preserving Our Collective Digital History2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28358/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28358/"><img alt="Preserving Our Collective Digital History" title="Preserving Our Collective Digital History" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28358/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation introduces the mission and the roles of the departments in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and focuses on the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit.</p>Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28356/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28356/"><img alt="Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?" title="Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28356/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation briefly introduces the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and their mission. It explains the structure of the Digital Projects Unit having the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History, and discusses their metadata structure and its role in Digital Projects.</p>Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library2011-01-05T14:57:34-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30372/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30372/"><img alt="Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library" title="Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30372/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied2011-01-05T14:57:34-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30373/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30373/"><img alt="Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied" title="Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30373/small/"/></a></p><p>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.</p>Leveraging the Results of NDNP: the Texas Digital Newspaper Program2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28360/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28360/"><img alt="Leveraging the Results of NDNP: the Texas Digital Newspaper Program" title="Leveraging the Results of NDNP: the Texas Digital Newspaper Program" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28360/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses how the University of North Texas Libraries and The Portal to Texas History leveraged the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and created the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP).</p>An NDNP Partnership2010-12-09T15:25:46-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29800/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29800/"><img alt="An NDNP Partnership" title="An NDNP Partnership" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29800/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) partnership between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Oklahoma Historical Society. It offers a background on how this collaboration began, information on the workflows, and the successes and challenges.</p>Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28354/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28354/"><img alt="Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive" title="Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28354/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation is about The Portal to Texas History and the IOGENE project and the strategies and steps involved in their development.</p>Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29302/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29302/"><img alt="Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update" title="Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29302/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation provides an update on three projects the Texas Digital Library Metadata Working Group (TDL-MWG) is working on. These include designing a metadata information website, creating best practices for images and datasets, and creating metadata courses for Texas Digital Library (TDL) training.</p>OAI-ORE2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28342/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28342/"><img alt="OAI-ORE" title="OAI-ORE" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28342/small/"/></a></p><p>This Tech Talk presentation discusses how the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) are used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library. OAI-ORE define the standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.</p>"Good" Digital Collections2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29303/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29303/"><img alt=""Good" Digital Collections" title=""Good" Digital Collections" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29303/small/"/></a></p><p>This Tech Talks presentation covers the principles that apply to "good" digital collections and analyzes how objects, metadata, and the user interface together create the users' experience of a collection.</p>jEdit2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29306/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29306/"><img alt="jEdit" title="jEdit" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29306/small/"/></a></p><p>This Tech Talks presentation discusses the jEdit text editor. jEdit is an open-source text editor available online which is used within the Digital Projects Lab for programming and for editing XML metadata files. In this Tech Talk, Metadata Librarian Hannah Tarver describes some of the ways that jEdit can be customized to make editing quicker and easier for documents that use mark-up languages or plain text.</p>Storage 101: The Basics2010-08-31T22:25:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28341/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28341/"><img alt="Storage 101: The Basics" title="Storage 101: The Basics" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28341/small/"/></a></p><p>This presentation discusses storage options for digital content, questions to ask when planning, and things to consider for storing and digitizing data.</p>Introduction to Metadata2010-11-15T19:45:12-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29307/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29307/"><img alt="Introduction to Metadata" title="Introduction to Metadata" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc29307/small/"/></a></p><p>Presentation on what metadata is, the differences in syntax and semantics in metadata, and examples of associations and organizations that have developed metadata schemas.</p>