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Representation of Recorded Knowledge and Extended Date/Time Format: A Case Study of the Digital Public Library of America

Description: This presentation presents results of a study that analyzed representation of dates and time in one of the largest aggregators of digital content in the world -- the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The findings demonstrate both similarities and differences in date and time representation across DPLA content hub and service hub provider groups.
Date: 2015-11-04/2015-11-06
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah

Web archives: A preliminary exploration of user expectations vs. reality

Description: Presentation for the Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL) as part of the 2017 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). This presentation discusses a paper examining how users perceive the process of web archiving.
Date: June 22, 2017
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda

Allied Program Areas and Specializations within LIS: UNT Experience

Description: This presentation was presented as part of a panel on "The Benefits and Challenges of Allied Programs and Specializations in LIS Units" as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference. This presentation discusses the rewards and challenges of Library and Information Science (LIS) programs, with a detailed overview of LIS programs offered at the University of North Texas.
Date: February 7, 2018
Creator: Hawamdeh, Suliman M.

Revisiting the Evolving Landscape of Open Access and Scholarly Communication

Description: Presentation at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. This presentation contains questions and topics of discussion for the panelists.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis; Helge, Kris; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Hastings, Samantha Kelly et al.

Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era

Description: Presentation for the 2018 Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium. This presentation discusses emerging trends for digital libraries and argues that indexing and abstracting services are still on the path to rediscovering and effectively accessing knowledge in the digital era.
Date: April 26, 2018
Creator: King, Samantha; Boyedoe, Howard; Chacon, Andrea; Hall, Molli; Krizansky, Maria; O'Bryant, Kathleen et al.

A Grounded Theory of Information Quality for Web Archives

Description: Presentation for the dissertation defense of Brenda Reyes Ayala. This presentation builds a theory of information quality for web archives that is grounded in human-centered data.
Date: May 18, 2018
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda

Open Science and Open Data for Sustainable Development: A Global View

Description: Presentation for the "Open Science and Open Data for Sustainable Development: A Global View" panel that discusses the global landscape of open science.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis & Helge, Kris

Preparing Linguists’ Field Recordings and Datasets for Ingest into a Digital Library System: Lessons from Creating the Lamkang Language Resource at the University of North Texas Digital Library

Description: Presentation on the long term preservation of and universal access to language data which may tap into typologically rare phenomena and which represents the intangible and irreplaceable heritage of indigenous communities. This language data can be in the form of audio, video, picture, and various digital formats. In order to prepare the source files of a documentation project for ingest to a digital library, linguists and digital librarians must develop a common procedure that takes into consid… more
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward

Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives

Description: Presentation based on the preliminary results of research into information organization in language archives. This looks at the background of language data and archives, their research questions, archives that were analyzed, their findings, and next steps.
Date: October 21, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana

Skill-Building in Online Graduate-Level Metadata Instruction through the Prism of Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata

Description: Presentation addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.
Date: October 21, 2020
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Burke, Mary

Amplifying Community Voices in Language Archives Through Participatory Archiving

Description: Presentation from a panel, "Considering Individual and Community Contexts Within Information Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Practice," that was held virtually for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). This portion of the panel focuses on the author's research into community-based language research (CBLR) and the Lamkang language.
Date: October 25, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary

Investigation of Descriptive Richness of Free-Text Metadata in Language Archives

Description: This presentation introduces language archives and analyzes item‐level metadata in three of them by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.
Date: October 26, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana

Evaluation of Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arabian Gulf Countries: A Case Study of Alqabas Archive

Description: Presentation exploring how information is organized in digital cultural heritage collection in Arabian Gulf countries. Study reveals high metadata quality overall but lack of consistency for many metadata fields, explained in part by the absence of metadata creation guidelines and professional training for metadata creators.
Date: December 4, 2020
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana

Cross-Language Comparison of Mismatched Annotation in Interlinear-Glossed Texts

Description: This presentation explores the variation in interlinear-glossed text (IGT) in 5 closely related South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages with verb stem alternation, reduplicated adverbial modifiers, and pre-verbal directionals. While IGT is a rich representation of language, IGT for even closely related languages can look markedly different due to individual linguists’ divergent analyses. In comparing the discrepancies between representations of such features, we gain insight into the underlying a… more
Date: January 8, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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