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- High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data
- This two-year project will advance understanding of the workflow and processes best able to increase access to and use of digitized biological collection metadata within the stakeholder communities comprised of biologists, natural history museum collections managers, biodiversity standards groups, and the library and information science community.
- An Issue of Granularity: Decomposing Redesigned Courses on Different Levels of Details
- This paper discusses a project to redesign courses on different levels of details. The Texas Course Redesign Project initiated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) aims to develop and distribute instructional resources to improve student learning outcomes and lower the costs of higher education.
- A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content
- This paper describes the design and development of a learning object repository for a new statewide higher education initiative.
- Hello RDA, Goodbye AACR2!
- This presentation is part of the pre-conference for the Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation introduces the conference and offers information on the agenda. The presentation also discusses talking points and issues relating to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2), Resource Description and Access (RDA), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD).
- CTR-NT: A Survey of Local Cataloging Tool and Resource Utilization
- This presentation discusses a grant project on Cataloging Tools and Resource: North Texas (CTR-NT). The study aimed to discover the extent and utilization of cataloging tools and resources within technical service departments in the public libraries of the North Texas Regional Library System (NTRLS) and the North East Texas Library System (NETLS).
- Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata
- This paper discusses assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata. This paper reports on a content analysis of collection records in an aggregation of cultural heritage collections.
- Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications on assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata.
- Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access
- This paper reports an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA).
- Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access
- This presentation discusses an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA). The investigation consists of two stages. In Stage One, the authors conducted a content analysis to identify resources used in 145 research papers and reports in two subfields of IIA; and in Stage Two, the authors carried out an online survey of IIA researchers to understand resource-sharing channels and the researchers' perspectives on resource sharing.
- Cross-language search: The case of Google Language Tools
- Article on cross-language searching and a case study of Google Language Tools, especially its cross-language search service.
- Open Access: A New Paradigm for Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Access
- The notion of open access to scholarly information is not new. In recent years, however, it has taken on prominence within the broader context of scholarly work, communication, and publishing. This brief paper intends to highlight and clarify key aspects of open access to assist UNTs initial discussions of the utility of open access for UNT researchers and scholars.
- The Apiary Project: High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data
- Presentation for the 2009 Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Meeting. This presentation discusses research on high-throughput workflow for computer-assisted human parsing of biological specimen label data. This is part of the Apiary Project, a collaboration of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
- Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film
- This article discusses automating the semiotic analysis of film, including visual representation, search and retrieval, and ways of seeing.
- Quality Health Information on the Internet: Developing a Diabetes Pathfinder for the Chinese Population
- A Web-based bilingual diabetes information pathfinder was created to help the Chinese population access quality health information on the Internet as part of a collaborative outreach project in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
- An Application Profile Using Darwin Core Rendered in the New Dublin Core Application Profile Framework
- Poster presented at the 2009 Taxonomic Database Working Group Annual Conference. This poster discusses an application profile using Darwin Core rendered in the new Dublin Core application profile framework. This is part of the Apiary Project, a collaboration of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
- Preparing School Library Media Specialists for Resource Description and Access (RDA)
- This presentation discusses preparing school library media specialists for resource description and access (RDA). In particular, the authors present the basic Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) concepts and discuss them in the context of RDA implementation. The authors provide the correlation between AACR2 and RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats: monograph, electronic resource, AV, etc. Lastly, the authors discuss implementation options and vendor(s) interaction.
- Unremarkable on the Face of It
- This paper was part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative 'Click! Photography Changes Everything'. This paper discusses family photographs and how sometimes seemingly unremarkable snapshots can be truly remarkable.
- Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use
- This doctoral dissertation is about collection-level subject access in aggregations of digital collections. The author discusses metadata richness and user interaction.
- An Event Model for Herbarium Specimen Data in XML [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2010 Taxonomic Database Working Group Meeting. This poster discusses the Apiary Project, a collaboration of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
- An Event Model for Herbarium Specimen Data in XML Poster Abstract
- This abstract describes a poster about the Apiary Project. The Apiary Project, a collaboration of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, is building a framework and web-based workflow for the extraction and parsing of herbarium specimen data. The workflow will support the transformation of written or printed specimen data into a high-quality machine-processable XML format. This poster describes an event model that informed the development of the Apiary XML Application Schema
- What Does Transaction Log Data Tell about Collection-Level Subject Access? [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2010 Library Research Seminar V Conference. This poster discusses what transaction log data can tell about collection-level subject access.
- Extracting and Parsing of Herbarium Specimen Data: Exploring the Use of the Dublin Core Application Profile Framework
- Paper for the 2010 International iConference. This paper discusses extraction and parsing of herbarium specimen data to make the critical information available in digital form.
- Introducing Resource Description and Access: taming the new cataloging rules
- This presentation gives an introduction to Resource Description and Access (RDA). The author presents information on how RDA works, its affects on cataloging and its functionality.
- From AACR2 to RDA: an Update
- This presentation gives an update on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2 (AACR2) and Resource Description and Access (RDA). In this presentation, the author discusses what is changing with RDA and what isn't, the functionality of the catalog, user's experience with functionality, what RDA allows us to do, and cataloger tasks.
- RDA: What Cataloging Managers Need to Know
- This presentation discusses what cataloging managers need to know about Resource Description and Access (RDA). It describes issues related to how RDA is affecting cataloging, what is changing and what is not, where we are and how we got here, the intention of RDA, objectives and principles, its relation to AACR2, and other RDA information.
- UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images
- This paper presents the results of the team of the University of North Texas in the Wikipedia image retrieval track of Image-CLEF-2010.
- Beyond Size and Search: Building Contextual Mass in Digital Aggregations for Scholarly Use
- This paper discusses building contextual mass in digital aggregations for scholarly use.
- What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access?
- This paper accompanies a poster presented at the 2010 Library Research Seminar V Conference. This paper and the accompanying poster discuss what transaction log data tells us about collection-level subject access.
- Contrasting Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers
- This article presents a second year analysis of baseline attitudinal data gathered from a National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project concerning contrasts between the perceptions of practicing professionals and students toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and careers.
- Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork
- Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
- Digital Information Curation for 21st Century Science and Scholarship: Experience-Based Learning for Information Professionals and Disciplinary Researchers
- This paper proposes a project on experience-based learning for information professionals and disciplinary researchers. Proposal written for the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
- Free-Text Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis
- This paper reports results of the study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital cultural heritage aggregations in the United States and Europe.
- Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study
- This article examines the design of a course that utilized the real-time information network Twitter to spark reflective thinking and communication based on classroom topics.
- Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History
- Article on metadata records translation and a study of The Portal to Texas History.
- Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information
- Article discussing a philosophy of educating health information professionals in a rapidly changing health care and information environment.
- Multilingual Information Access for Digital Libraries - The Metadata Records Translation Project
- This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Wuhan University, Beijing Normal University, Nankai University, and the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access for digital libraries and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project.
- Photography Changes Our Environmental Awareness
- This article is part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative called Click! Photography Changes Everything. This article discusses how photography and increased visibility can bridge the gap between the natural world and human interaction.
- The Role of Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Subject Access to Digital Collections in Aggregations
- This paper presents a new area of research in library and information sciences - investigation into collection-level subject metadata that describes entire digital collections as integral wholes - and reports results of the multi-method exploratory study combining comparative content analysis of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale aggregations of digital collections in the USA and Europe, transaction log analysis of user interactions with one of these portals, as well as interviews and observations of aggregation users.
- Role of Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Subject Access to Digital Collections in Aggregations
- This presentation discusses collection-level subject metadata in subject access to digital collections in aggregations. This was presented at the 18th International Conference "Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education, and Business" in Sudak, Ukraine.
- Metadata Records Translation And Evaluation for Multilingual Information Access
- This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) in Toluca, Mexico. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project.
- Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis [Presentation]
- This presentation includes audio/video media and discusses metadata. This presentation reports results of the study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital cultural heritage aggregations in the United States and Europe.
- Instructional Design Strategies for Teaching Technological Courses Online
- This paper describes different instructional design strategies for teaching computer technological courses online.
- Open Access and Scholarly Communication: The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship
- This presentation discusses open access and scholarly communication. The topics include why open access is important, how it impacts scholarly communication, and intellectual property.
- Contextual Metadata in Digital Aggregations: Application of Collection-Level Subject Metadata and its Role in User Interactions and Information Retrieval
- Article discussing a study of contextual metadata in digital aggregations. Results of this study prove importance of provision of collection-level metadata in general and subject metadata in particular to enhance user experiences and information retrieval in digital libraries.
- Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries
- Article discussing research on collaboration and crowdsourcing. The purpose of the study is to understand existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and sustaining multilingual digital libraries.
- Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates
- Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
- The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea
- This article discusses a research study on the development and assessment of an instrument for measuring mental model styles in Korea.
- Digital Curation and Data Management Capacity Building: Curricula and Workforce
- Poster presented at the 2012 ALISE Annual Conference. This poster discusses digital curation and data management capacity building, as part of the iCAMP project.
- Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies
- This article presents Five-Picture Charades, an instructional activity designed to introduce preservice and in-service teachers to the technical and pedagogical uses of digital images in the classroom.
- Leadership, Training, Mentoring, and Instructional Design
- Editorial article for the second issue of Learning and Performance Quarterly. In this piece, the author describes the second issue and the overall focus on leadership, training, mentoring and instructional design.