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- 3Dhotbed: Harnessing 3D Technologies and Data to Teach the History of the Book
- Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation includes the case study of developing 3D models of the tools, hosting the resulting data in the digital library, and the pedagogical opportunities the project has afforded.
- I am not a photographer. One librarian's journey toward understanding FADGI, image quality, and digitization best practices
- Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of site visits from over a dozen digitizing institutions across the country, including common tools used and best practices.
- Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection
- This paper applies the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate collection development strategies for an institutional repository.
- Approaches developed to ensure accuracy and consistency of metadata for TRAIL reports
- Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses metadata remediation issues within the UNT Libraries TRAIL collection focused on identifying and measuring issues related to incomplete records and creation date discrepancies.
- Barriers to Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions: An Exploratory Study
- Paper for the 2009 IS&T Archiving Conference. This paper discusses an exploratory study on barriers to adopting PREMIS in cultural heritage institutions.
- Beyond Text: Best Practices for Cataloging Music-ETDs and Associated Audio-Visual Materials
- This poster discusses issues and considerations in describing and integrating ETDs and associated content.
- Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections
- 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.
- A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections
- This paper presents a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
- Characteristics of Tweets about African Cultural Heritage
- This article investigates broad characteristics of tweets about African cultural heritage with possible implications for marketing by cultural heritage administrators and other stakeholders.
- Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives
- This presentation is a brief outline of the End-of-Term archiving project done as a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas Libraries, and the California Digital Library.
- Collecting and Archiving the Federal Web
- Presentation for the 2015 Open Access Symposium discussing collecting and archiving the Federal web.
- Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library
- 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.
- Command-Line Image Manipulation with ImageMagick
- Presentation slides from a workshop at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). These workshop slides introduce command-line image manipulation to its participants using the open source software ImageMagick.
- Creating, Curating, and Preserving Digital Collections: Preserving the Digital Heritage
- Presented at the 2018 Ke Au Hou Pacific Librarianship Conference. This presentation describes a pre-conference workshop that provides attendees with a better understanding of the landscape related to digital preservation and access among cultural heritage institutions, key components in the ongoing process of preserving digital information, and the building blocks of digital preservation systems.
- Crossing State Lines For Collaborative Newspaper Digitization: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
- This presentation discusses a collaborative project between the Oklahoma Historical Society and the University of North Texas (UNT) to digitize all of the pre-1923 newspapers in the Oklahoma Historical Society's collection. The project involved building The Gateway to Oklahoma History, which allows easy access to newspapers for students, researchers, and journalists.
- Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses research on the current quality assurance practices in the web archiving community.
- Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly. This presentation discusses current quality assurance practices in web archiving.
- CyberCemetery: Archiving Historically Significant Federal Websites
- Presentation for the 2015 Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses the CyberCemetery and archiving historically significant federal websites.
- Developing the DPLA Texas Service Hub, v.2. A collaboration to build the next generation aggregator for Texas
- Presentation sharing the goals and mission of a pilot between the University of North Texas and the Texas Digital Library to develop a prototype of a new service hub for Texas to provide metadata from collections across the state to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
- Digital Collections: Scope and Selection Criteria
- Presentation for the 2014 Federal Depository Library (FDL) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses digital collections and their scope and selection criteria.
- Digital Curation Micro-Applications: Digital Lifecycle Management with AutoHotkey
- Poster presented at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses open source software tools coded with AutoHotkey that the UNT digital libraries group has developed for digital curation during the pre-ingest stage of the digital resource lifecycle.
- Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied
- 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.
- Digitization at the Portal to Texas History
- The presentation introduces the process of digitizing material into the Portal to Texas History. It was presented at the 2020 Texas Association of Museums Conference. The history of the repository, digitization standards, and workflows are discussed along with some lessons learned.
- End of Term Web Archive--2008, 2012, 2016
- Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, including updates and challenges from the 2016 harvest.
- End of Term Web Archive: The What, The Why, The How
- Presentation for Data Rescue Denton. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, with a comparison of the 2008, 2012, and 2016 harvests.
- Experiments with Metadata Quality Interfaces
- This presentation provides an overview of the design features and goals of newly-developed metadata quality interfaces in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections. Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
- Exploring our Collections: The Many Colors of the UNT Digital Library
- Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter.
- Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Open Access
- Presentation for a workshop at the 2013 Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the impact of open access for students, the impact of open access on universities, and the impact of open access on publishing practices.
- [Handout to Accompany Poster on Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard]
- Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata." In includes examples of dates that meet Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards, examples of problems encountered when normalizing date displays for users, additional statistics related to already-valid dates in the digital collections at the time that the standards were formally adopted, and links to online materials.
- [Handout to Accompany Poster on Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports]
- Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort." In includes a brief overview of the project, a list of hardware and software used in the project, and a detailed list of the steps for each stage of the process (Inventory, Scanning, Processing, Metadata, and Upload).
- How Digital Libraries can Create a Culture of Open Access on Campus
- Presentation for a panel discussion at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This panel presentation discusses how digital libraries can create a culture of open access on campus. Five panelists discuss their perspectives, strategies, challenges, and progress.
- Identity Management at the University of North Texas
- Brief history of name authority in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Collections, including the development and use of a local name authority database for creators associated with the UNT community. This text was part of the article "Who Is This: Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management" published in the May/June 2018 issue of AALL Spectrum.
- IIIF and the UNT Digital Collections
- Presentation for the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Archives Community Group virtual meeting held on May 12, 2020. The presentation is a demonstration of the IIIF by the University of North Texas' digital collections.
- ImageMagick Workshop Handout
- This handout accompanies a workshop presentation for the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). The workshop introduces command-line image manipulation using the open source software ImageMagick.
- Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata
- Poster illustrating issues involved in fully-implementing the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards in the UNT Libraries' digital collections, comprising The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History.
- Lessons Learned in Creating New Digital Libraries Interfaces
- Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses lessons learned from the UNT Libraries redesign of two digital library interfaces: The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library.
- Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Support a Modern Research Library
- Presentation for the University of Oklahoma series "Beyond our Walls: A Conversation with Mark Phillips." This presentation discusses the digital library activities at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the use of the existing digital library infrastructure to build research collections that support a growing research institution.
- Lifecycle Management of ETDs: Toward A Collaborative Approach To Stakeholders' Involvement In ETDs Curation
- This presentation discusses the management and curation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). It highlights and discusses the early findings of an IMLS-funded project on Lifecycle Management of ETDs.
- Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
- This article describes how the 3Dhotbed project (an acronym for “3D Printed History of the Book Education”) harnesses maker culture to advance book history instruction by providing open-access 3D data through a digital library platform.
- Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region's Maps Online
- This poster discusses the Mapping the Southwest Project, involving putting our region's maps online. The poster includes background information on the project, the project plan, workflow and equipment, and the impacts and lessons learned.
- "Mapping the Southwest": UNT-UTA Collaborative Project
- This presentation discusses a collaborative project between the University of North Texas (UNT) and the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to digitize 5,000 historically-significant, rare maps of the American southwest.
- Metadata: Batch Editing of MARC Records (work area D)
- Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This reports workflows developed for the conversion of two sets of metadata records and serves the following objectives: research different avenues for the batch import and export of MARC records from popular integrated library systems, identify tools/software which aids in batch editing of MARC records, and document workflow for batch editing MARC records.
- Metadata Quality Enhancement for Large Digital Collections: Web Browser Automation with Selenium IDE
- Poster presented at the 2012 TCDL Annual Conference. This poster discusses metadata quality enhancement for large digital collections.
- Needs Assessment Toolkit
- 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.
- OAI Static Repositories
- Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report gives an overview of the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) static repositories' and their restrictions and conformation rules. Also, intermediation with a Static Repository Gateway, workflows and best practices, and interfaces for the creation of metadata for OAI static repositories
- Open Access at the UNT Libraries
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library collection. It showcases the collections included in the UNT Digital Library, the statistics of use, and highlights the UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository.
- Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive
- This paper discusses open source components, standard conformance, and UCD as it relates to The Portal to Texas History.
- Outreach and Collaboration: Strategies for Digital Repositories
- Presentation for the 2012 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses outreach and collaboration strategies for digital repositories.
- Partnership for Building Institutional/National Capacity: Addis Ababa University and University of North Texas Initiatives
- Presentation for the 2015 International Conference on Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development, Education, and Training. This presentation discusses partnerships for building institutional/national capacity and initiatives at Addis Ababa University and the University of North Texas.
- Piloting Photogrammetry in Digital Libraries
- Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation focuses on photogrammetry methods used for model creation as well as metadata description, uploading, and viewing of the models in the UNT Digital Library.