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2023 UNT OA Symposium: Open Pedagogy and OER Workshop
Video recording of the session, "Open Pedagogy and OER Workshop," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This workshop offers some practical tools and advice for developing OER and open pedagogy practices.
2023 UNT OA Symposium: Opening Remarks
Video recording of the opening remarks for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023.
2023 UNT OA Symposium: OER and Open Textbook Projects at UNT
Video recording of the session, "OER and Open Textbook Projects at UNT," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session is a panel of UNT faculty that discuss their university-sponsored OER and open textbook projects. They consider how these projects were conceived, created, and implemented in the classroom and what the outcomes, benefits, and drawbacks might be.
2023 UNT OA Symposium: Recent Texas Legislation Affecting Course Materials and OER
Video recording of the session, "Recent Texas Legislation Affecting Course Materials and OER," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session looks at two recent pieces of legislation-- Texas SB 810 (OER course markings) and HB 1027 (disclosure of course material information)--and their implications for Texas institutions of higher education.
2023 UNT OA Symposium: Federal Initiatives Supporting Open Science and Equitable Access
Video recording of the session, "Federal Initiatives Supporting Open Science and Equitable Access," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session focuses on recent federal initiatives supporting Open Science and public access to federally-funded research, including those outlined in the 2022 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo, Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.
How to Create Braille Music using the Music Library Accessibility Station
Video describing how to set up UNT Music Library's Accessibility Station. The video also demonstrates how to create Braille music using technologies and software available at the Accessibility Station.
Open Educational Resources in Action: 2022 UNT Open Access Symposium
Video recording of the 2022 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium held on March 8, 2022.
Poe Studies Association Online Forums: Poe in the Classroom
This video features a set of presentations organized by Dr. John Edward Martin and hosted by Dr. Amy Branam Armiento on the topic of “Poe in the Classroom”, as shared during a September 2021 meeting of the Poe Studies Association as part of their monthly Online Forums sessions. In it, the presenters shared examples of how they’ve taught Poe in a variety of college classes across the curriculum The presentation is followed by a discussion with other members of the Poe Studies Association.
Poe Studies Association Online Forums: Poe & Comics
This video features a presentation by Dr. John Edward Martin on the topic of “Poe & Comics”, as shared during an August 2020 meeting of the Poe Studies Association as part of their monthly Online Forums sessions. In it, Dr. Martin shares a bit of the history of Poe in comics & graphic narrative, some of the scholarship on the subject, and his own scholarly interest in the subject. The presentation is followed by a discussion with other members of the Poe Studies Association.
Academic Librarians Creating Value through Commercialization Partnerships
Video of the presentation "Academic Librarians Creating Value through Commercialization Partnerships," which focuses on how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries was able to develop a successful partnership with the UNT Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) and move outside the Libraries’ normal sphere of influence to help create a patent internship program for students. It is a presentation for a contributed paper at the Texas Library Association 2020 Virtual Summer of Learning conference.
Automating the Authority Control Process
Video recording of the presentation, "Automating the Authority Control Process," for the Innovative Users Group Conference in 2020. The presentation introduces ideas on how to handle authority control using a variety of tools, both paid and free. The presenter describes how their library handles authority control, describe vendors and programs, and demonstrate a few automated authority control processes using MarcEdit, Sierra, OCLC and a few other programs.
So You Want to Print and Sell Open Textbooks?
Video recording of the presentation "So You Want to Print and Sell Open Textbooks?" which provides an overview of the landscape and factors to consider in choosing among the options for printing and selling an open textbook.
Video Message Congratulating LEAP-II Graduating Students
On May 4, 2018, a recognition ceremony was held for the LEAP (Library Education for the U.S. Affiliated Pacific) II scholars, who earned their Master's in Library Science degree from UNT. Video messages were sent to the students by their UNT professors who taught them at the Institutes in Hawaii. This short video recording is from Dr. Daniel Alemneh, congratulating the LAEP-II students who now join the graduates from the LEAP I cohort as the only indigenous librarians in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands.
Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data
Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2019 Membership Meeting. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for the sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.
How Should You Publish?
Recording of "Building an Open Textbook Publishing Program", the Open Textbook Publishing Winter Webinar Series 2019. This presentation focuses on the high-level decisions necessary when deciding how to offer a publishing service.
Speech about digital preservation collections in the UNT Digital Library
Video of the opening remarks at the start of the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Cathy Hartman, the interim Dean of UNT Libraries, provides an overview of digital preservation collections in the UNT Digital Library.
Preservation of and Access to Government Information and Data: Accounts from the Field
Video of the panel session "Preservation of and Access to Government Information and Data: Accounts from the Field" for the 2017 Open Access Symposium with presentations on the End of Term Archive, the US Government Publishing Office, the Data Refuge initiative, and the Preservation of Electronic Government Information group.
Sommer Browning: Comics as Poetry
This video contains a conversation with Poet Sommer Browning on her work in melding together comics and poetry.
Regional and Local Data
Video of the panel session "Regional and Local Data" at the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This video discusses the use of geospatial data at regional and local levels.
What Kind of Information Is Available From the Federal Government
Video of the panel session "What Kind of Information is Available From the Federal Government" for the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This panel includes discussion of access to the National Library of Medicine through the University of North Texas Health Science Center, and information available through the US Census Bureau, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the US Patent and Trademark Office.
After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5
Video of the panel session "After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5" at the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This video discusses the origin of the Denton Declaration and current initiatives regarding open data.
[Keynote Video] Some Thoughts on the Fragility of the Public Record in the Age of Big Digital
Video of the morning keynote presentation for the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This video contains a discussion of the complex issues involved with preserving public records.
Toward an Ethic of Social Justice in the World of Online Information
Video of the afternoon keynote session of the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This video includes a critical discussion of technology at the intersection of race, gender, and culture.
Social Justice Models for Campus Engagement [Keynote]
Video of the keynote for the 2017 UNT Equity & Diversity Conference. In this video, Melissa Harris-Perry discusses the questions educators face when engaging in social justice. This video also contains an introduction of the speaker by Shani Barrax Moore and video presentation introduced by Dr. Jacqueline Vickery of a student video project arguing for the need for diversity in faculty and staff.
[Video taken at the U.S. Supreme Court on Marriage Equality Day]
This short video clip was taken the day that the Supreme Court handed down it's decision on Obergefell v. Hodges. The crowd chants, "USA, USA, USA." Two signs are seen, one says, "Dignity Declared," and the other says, "The Arc of History Bends Towards Justice."
[Video taken at the U.S. Supreme Court on Marriage Equality Day]
Video of a jubilant crowd shouting, "USA, USA, USA!" at the U.S. Supreme Court on the day they announced the decision on Marriage Equality and the Obergefell v. Hodges case.
[Video taken at the U.S. Supreme Court on Marriage Equality Day of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington]
Video of The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington singing two songs after the announcement of the Supreme Court on Marriage Equality. The first song is "Make Them Hear You," and the second song is "The Impossible Dream" by Andy Williams.
[Video taken at the U.S. Supreme Court on Marriage Equality Day]
Video taken at the U.S. Supreme Court on the day they announced their decision on Marriage Equality and the Obergefell v. Hodges case. The crowd is waiting to hear the decision.
[Video taken at the U.S. Supreme Court as the decision is announced on Marriage Equality Day]
A video taken from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on the day they announced the decision on Marriage Equality and the Obergefell v. Hodges case. A jubilant crowd celebrates the announcement while a young couple in the foreground is interviewed by a member of the press.
[Awaiting a decision: a Video taken at the U.S. Supreme Court on Marriage Equality Day]
A short video of the crowds on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on the day they announced their decision on Marriage Equality and the Obergefell v. Hodges case.
Digital Medical Humanities: An Applied Media Studies Community of Practice
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kirsten Ostherr draws on examples from the Medical Media Arts Lab to show how digital medical humanities cultivates 21st century communication skills for future health professionals.
Art + Recovery in the Digital Humanities
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, xtine burrough and Sabrina Starnaman discuss their participatory installation, a creative recovery effort focusing on the 1861 short story Life in the Iron Mills.
More Than Pretty Pictures: Material Culture Digitally Revealed Through the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artist Archive
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation is part of a panel on "Collective Contributions in Creating a Digital Hybrid" discussing the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive. In this presentation, Margaret Culbertson provides an overview of the development of the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive.
Keynote Address: From I, Robot to WeRobotics: Humanitarian Robotics in Action
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This keynote address draws on real-world examples to illustrate how aerial robotics (drones) and other autonomous robotics solutions are being used in a wide range of humanitarian efforts.
Keynote Address: Burning Down the Tent: New Futures for Social Justice and Digital Humanities
Video recording of a keynote presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this keynote address, Roopika Risam uses digital initiatives at Salem State University as a case study to illustrate the key practices necessary for building digital humanities communities and institutional centers that place social justice at the core of their missions.
Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Jeremy Berg discusses the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
The Hill Archive in Practice: A Resource for the Texas Clay Exhibition and Publicaiton at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation is part of a panel on "Collective Contributions in Creating a Digital Hybrid" discussing the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive. In this presentation, Amy Kurlander discusses using the Hill Archive to create an exhibition of 19th-century Texas pottery, and an illustrated catalogue of Bayou Bend's entire collection of over 180 Texas-made vessels.
Quantifying Artist Canvas with Digital Signal Processing Tools
Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Don Johnson describes and illustrates signal processing techniques used in technical examinations for art authentication, and demonstrates how these results are used in technical art history.
Of Institutions, Initiatives, and the Importance of Regional Academic Communities: Building NYCDH
Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kimon Keramidas and Alex Gil discuss how the New York City Digital Humanities group enables a wide variety of communities of practice, and the importance of regional communities in facilitating the growth of new academic fields, such as digital humanities.
imagineRio: A Diachronic Atlas of the Social and Architectural Evolution of Rio de Janeiro
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Farès el-Dahdah and Alida C. Metcalf discuss imagineRio, a searchable atlas platform that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro over the entire history of the city, as it existed and as it was often imagined.
Discovering Texas Material Culture in the Briscoe Center for American History
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation is part of a panel on "Collective Contributions in Creating a Digital Hybrid" discussing the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive. In this presentation, Lynn Bell discusses the three year period in which Fellows surveyed over 11,000 objects and archival items to identify and photograph those that would contribute to the Hill Archive's mission.
Recital Preservation: Before They Fade Away
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Dara Flinn discusses issues in planning and executing a preservation project with Fondren Library and the Shepherd School of Music for digitizing audio materials.
Grateful Data: Digital Humanities, Data Cleaning, and the Grateful Dead
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Scott Carlson discusses his efforts to teach data cleaning techniques using publicly available data related to the Grateful Dead, including data from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the Internet Archive, and the Internet Movie Database.
Gephi Visualization and Text-Mining with R in the Study of Chen Duxiu, a Chinese Political and Cultural Iconoclast
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Anne Chao uses network visualization software and text-mining to render a more comprehensive understanding of Chen Duxiu.
Workshop: Digital Literacy in the College
Video recording of a workshop presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this workshop, Ron Thomas demonstrates an active-learning exercise wherein students create a presentation using an allusion-plus-image format in order to gloss allusions form the writer's text with images from the web.
Digital Inputs, Cultural Outputs: Collaborative, Online Tools for Education, Research and Publication in the History of Art and Cultural Heritage Preservation
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, John North Hopkins presents the Collections Analysis Collaborative, an initiative of the Menil Collection and Rice University.
Digital Facsimiles: the "Electronic Vesalius" and archival remediation
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation consists of a panel on a collaboration between the Texas Medical Center's Rare Book Room and McGovern Historical Center, the Rice Oshman Engineering and Design Kitchen, and Rice's Fondren Library and Humanities Research Center to create the "Electronic Vesalius."
Welcome Address
Welcome address for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference by the Conference Director, Spencer Keralis, and Host Welcome Addresses from Rice University by Vice Provost Sara Lowman and the Humanities Research Center Director, Farès el-Dahdah.
ARTECA: Connecting Creative Communities
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation consists of a panel on a collaboration between MIT Press, Leonardo/ISAST and UT Dallas to create ARTECA, a digital scholarly aggregator. ARTECA serves as an online portal that supports the creation and dissemination of digital scholarly materials that explore the intersection of arts, science and technology.
(Re)conceptualizing Research with Native Peruvian Artists in the Age of Digital Humanities
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Amanda Alexander discusses an ongoing research project with a Native Peruvian artist who works to preserve and keep alive a traditional type of pottery called a huaco.
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