Description: This document accompanies a poster on teaching tools, applications, and infrastructure for digital curation through the use of a virtual lab. Abstract: With an increased demand for digital curation, data management, archiving, and preservation the library and information science community has begun offering new education and training in these fields. A trend in this education is the use of online virtual labs to offer students hands-on experience with the tools and methodologies inherent to these fields. At the University of North Texas, the authors are also developing a four course education program in digital curation and data management including a course called 'Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation' that employs a virtual lab component. This paper discusses the first offering of the course; several challenges the authors faced; and the new strategies developed to address these issues and improve the course and virtual lab for the next offering.

Description: This paper presents the results of the team of the University of North Texas in the Wikipedia image retrieval track of Image-CLEF-2010. The authors' approach is based on performing translation of the French and German image captions to English and using of Language Models for generating their runs. The authors also explore the use of complex queries by asking two users to manually build queries based on the original topics distributed. The authors' results indicate that the approach of translating the image captions is feasible and yields results that are quite competitive with other teams that participated in the same track.

Description: This paper accompanies a poster presentation on what transaction log data tells us about collection-level subject access. This paper reports results of the quantitative and qualitative study of a systematic sample of transaction log data that recorded user interactions with a large-scale aggregation of cultural heritage digital collections over a period of one year.