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Developing a Collection Digitization Workflow for the Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum

Natural history collections house immense amounts of data, but the majority of data is only accessible by locating the collection label, which is usually attached to the physical specimen. This method of data retrieval is time consuming and can be very damaging to fragile specimens. Digitizing the collections is the one way to reduce the time and potential damage related to finding the collection objects. The Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum is a natural history museum located at the University… more

Date: August 2013

Creator: Evans, Colleen R.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Enhancing User Search Experience in Digital Libraries with Rotated Latent Semantic Indexing

This study investigates a semi-automatic method for creation of topical labels representing the topical concepts in information objects. The method is called rotated latent semantic indexing (rLSI). rLSI has found application in text mining but has not been used for topical labels generation in digital libraries (DLs). The present study proposes a theoretical model and an evaluation framework which are based on the LSA theory of meaning and investigates rLSI in a DL environment. The proposed ev… more

Date: August 2015

Creator: Polyakov, Serhiy

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Needs Assessment Survey Report

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. The project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library (CDL), the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University (NYU). The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build collections of web-published materials. The content of the collections for this project will be largely … more

Date: January 5, 2006

Creator: Hsieh, Inga K. & Murray, Kathleen R.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Needs Assessment Survey Report: Abbreviated Version

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Needs Assessment Toolkit created for the Web-at-Risk project describes the project's needs assessment activities and includes data collection tools, which are designated to identify the needs and requirements of curators, web-content producers, and end users with regard to the Web Archive Service. Additionally, information gathered by some of the data collection tools will help to identify curators' requirements for the web crawler and its cra… more

Date: January 5, 2006

Creator: Hsieh, Inga K. & Murray, Kathleen R.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Implications of Punctuation Mark Normalization on Text Retrieval

This research investigated issues related to normalizing punctuation marks from a text retrieval perspective. A punctuated-centric approach was undertaken by exploring changes in meanings, whitespaces, words retrievability, and other issues related to normalizing punctuation marks. To investigate punctuation normalization issues, various frequency counts of punctuation marks and punctuation patterns were conducted using the text drawn from the Gutenberg Project archive and the Usenet Newsgrou… more

Date: August 2013

Creator: Kim, Eungi

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Rated M for Monkey: An Ethnographic Study of Parental Information Behavior when Assessing Video Game Content for their Children

Following the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011), which struck down the state of California’s appeal to restrict the sale of games deemed to have “deviant violence” to those 18 or older and the court’s recommendation that parents use the ESRB Ratings System instead, this ethnographic study sought to better understand what parents thought of laws on video games and how they used the recommended ratings system. A total of 30 i… more

Date: May 2016

Creator: Harrelson, Diana

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Cognitive Playfulness, Innovativeness, and Belief of Essentialness: Characteristics of Educators who have the Ability to Make Enduring Changes in the Integration of Technology into the Classroom Environment.

Research on the adoption of innovation is largely limited to factors affecting immediate change with few studies focusing on enduring or lasting change. The purpose of the study was to examine the personality characteristics of cognitive playfulness, innovativeness, and essentialness beliefs in educators who were able to make an enduring change in pedagogy based on the use of technology in the curriculum within their assigned classroom settings. The study utilized teachers from 33 school distri… more

Date: August 2004

Creator: Dunn, Lemoyne Luette Scott

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Factors Affecting Faculty Use Of Learning Object Repositories: An Exploratory Study Of Orange Grove And Wisc-online

The purpose of this study was to identify factors that motivate or impede faculty use of learning object repositories (LORs). The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) served as the theoretical framework for this study. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in the study to explore two research questions relating to factors affecting faculty use of LORs. Research subjects were faculty and instructional staff users from two LORs: Orange Grove and Wisc-Online.… more

Date: December 2011

Creator: Xu, Hong

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Study Of The Perception Of Cataloging Quality Among Catalogers In Academic Libraries

This study explores the concept of "quality" in library cataloging and examines the perception of quality cataloging among catalogers who work in academic libraries. An examination of the concept of "quality cataloging" in library science literature revealed that even though there is some general agreement on how this concept is defined, the level of detail and focus of these definitions often vary. These various perceptions were dissected in order to develop a framework for evaluating quality … more

Date: December 2011

Creator: Snow, Karen

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Adoption of Open Source Software in Uganda: a Pragmatist Approach to the Formation of a National Information Policy for a New Technology

This exploratory research examined an information policy formation process for the adoption of open source software (OSS) in Uganda. Grounded in a pragmatist tradition, this theoretical and empirical study pursued a qualitative research approach with a triangulation of theoretical concepts, data collection, and analysis techniques in an iterative and interactive process. The design provided a powerful context to develop and conduct field activities in Kampala with a purposeful sample of 22 part… more

Date: May 2014

Creator: Muwanguzi, Samuel

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Value of Everything: Ranking and Association with Encyclopedic Knowledge

This dissertation describes WikiRank, an unsupervised method of assigning relative values to elements of a broad coverage encyclopedic information source in order to identify those entries that may be relevant to a given piece of text. The valuation given to an entry is based not on textual similarity but instead on the links that associate entries, and an estimation of the expected frequency of visitation that would be given to each entry based on those associations in context. This estimati… more

Date: December 2009

Creator: Coursey, Kino High

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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An Experimental Study of Teachers' Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy, Student Motivation, and Cognitive Learning in Video Instruction

This study used an experimental design and a direct test of recall to provide data about teacher immediacy and student cognitive learning. Four hypotheses and a research question addressed two research problems: first, how verbal and nonverbal immediacy function together and/or separately to enhance learning; and second, how immediacy affects cognitive learning in relation to student motivation. These questions were examined in the context of video instruction to provide insight into distance l… more

Date: May 2000

Creator: Witt, Paul L.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Networked generation youth's information seeking process: An examination of cognitive, affective and physical behaviors and problem solving techniques.

This study investigated the information seeking process of the networked generation youth. Specifically, I examined the cognitive, affective, and physical information seeking behaviors and problem solving techniques adolescent student users of the networked environment utilize to solve information needs. Grounded in the theoretical context of the information seeking process in the networked environment, the research extended the user-centered approach to modeling the information seeking proces… more

Date: May 2008

Creator: Peterson, Janet Walker

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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An exploration of the diffusion of a new technology from communities of practice perspective: Web services technologies in digital libraries.

This study explored and described decision factors related to technology adoption. The research used diffusion of innovations and communities of practice (CoP) theoretical frameworks and a case study of Web services technology in the digital library (DL) environment to develop an understanding of the decision-making process. A qualitative case study approach was used to investigate the research problems and data were collected through semi-structured interviews, documentary evidence (e.g., meet… more

Date: August 2007

Creator: Oguz, Fatih

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Students' Criteria for Course Selection: Towards a Metadata Standard for Distributed Higher Education

By 2007, one half of higher education students are expected to enroll in distributed learning courses. Higher education institutions need to attract students searching the Internet for courses and need to provide students with enough information to select courses. Internet resource discovery tools are readily available, however, users have difficulty selecting relevant resources. In part this is due to the lack of a standard for representation of Internet resources. An emerging solution is meta… more

Date: August 2000

Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Needs Assessment Toolkit: Guidelines and Data Collection Tools

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. Each of the projects represents a collaborative effort to preserve for future generations born-digital or digitized cultural heritage materials and collections. The Web-at-Risk project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University. The project will deve… more

Date: May 31, 2005

Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries