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- Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Geography & The Environment
- Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of geography and the environment.
- Want to be a Cataloging Manager?
- Presentation sharing research on job advertisements for cataloging manager positions in academic libraries from 2015 through 2020. The presenters discuss how required and preferred qualifications have evolved over time. Recommendations for writing job advertisements to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion are provided. It was presented virtually for the ALA Core Role of the Professional Librarian in Technical Services Interest Group (RPLTS) Core IG Week program, on March 9, 2022.
- Web Archiving: How do we Preserve the Web?
- Presentation discussing long-term preservation and access through the process of web archiving. This presentation was given as part of the Spring 2022 Department of Information Science Research Meetings (a.k.a Brown Bag meetings).
- ERCOT/2021 Texas Power Crisis Twitter Dataset
- This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to the This dataseic Reliability Countil of Texas (ERCOT) during the 2021 Texas power crisis from February 10th, thru February 27th, 2021. The dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 612,082 Tweets make up the combined dataset.
- Making It Local: Developing a Local Usage Collection System
- Presentation on the creation of a locally-based system for collecting and displaying electronic resource usage data at the UNT Libraries. The process is discussed in-depth with goals, next steps, and links to tools and documentation. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
- Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data
- 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 sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) 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.
- Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data
- 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 sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) 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.
- Understanding Open Access Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework
- Slides accompanying the panel presentation “Understanding Open Access Ebook usage: Toward a Common Framework” presented at the 2018 Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition.
- It's in the Bag--Creating Sustainability in the Faculty Book Delivery Service: Final Report
- This report documents the It's in the Bag--Creating Sustainability in the Faculty Book Delivery Service project funded through the 2017 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report describes the It's in the Bag--Creating Sustainability in the Faculty Book Delivery Service project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
- Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings
- Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2016 Midwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. The notes and presentation focus on the classification of live music recordings, the theory behind current cataloging standards, and why these recordings and their organization are important to libraries.
- Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings
- Presentation for the 2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. This presentation focuses on the classification of live music recordings, the theory behind current cataloging standards, and why these recordings and their organization are important to libraries.
- Critical Digital Pedagogy Kick Off Meeting
- This presentation provides an overview of the Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network Grant project, including activities, goals, and projected outcomes.
- How Descriptive Metadata Changes in the UNT Libraries' Collection: A Case Study [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2014 DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. This presentation discusses a case study of how descriptive metadata changes in the UNT Libraries' collections.
- TALL Texans 2013 Workplace Leadership Development Project
- Presentation for the Texas Library Association Annual Conference on TALL Texans 2013 and the workplace leadership development project.
- Implementing Name Authority Control into Institutional Repositories: A Staged Approach
- This presentation discusses name authority for institutional repositories. It gives an overview of some major initiatives in name authority and outlines the staged approach taken by the UNT Libraries.
- Defining What Preservation Through Access Means in Digitizing Community Newspapers
- Poster presented at the 2012 NTLP Annual Conference on Library Technology. This poster discusses what preservation through access means in digitizing community newspapers.
- Is It Really That Bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems
- This presentation is for a workshop and discusses a methodology for addressing full-text linking problems.
- Link Resolver Testing
- This excel file accompanies a workshop presentation titled 'Is it really that bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems'.
- Steps for Using the Worksheets for Evaluating Link Resolvers
- This worksheet accompanies a workshop presentation titled 'Is it really that bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems', which discusses a methodology for addressing full-text linking problems.
- What If... ? Analysis of Demand-Driven Acquisitions of E-Books at UNT
- This poster discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) of e-books at UNT.
- Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals For Smart Staff Development
- This presentation discusses setting goals for staff. This presentation will talk about writing SMART goals that are clear and achievable and that meet the needs of the organization and its individuals for training.
- Using Assessment to Guide Strategic Planning
- This presentation discusses using assessments to guide strategic planning.
- Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer
- This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document is a report on the status of a two-phase transfer test being carried out between the MetaArchive Cooperative and Chronopolis. These tests aim to demonstrate a proof-of-concept that the MetaArchive network may use Chronopolis's data grid preservation service as an exit strategy in the event that either MetaArchive or LOCKSS becomes unsustainable in the future.
- Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep
- This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes the preparation of archival units residing on a LOCKSS file system that have been designated for packaging and exchange with a non-LOCKSS-based preservation environment-in this case an iRODS grid-based environment.
- Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool
- This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes tools. These tools are designed to facilitate the transfer of data contained within a number of LOCKSS archival units and packaged into bags. The bags are then transferred to the iRODS grid. The user has the option of creating and sending filled bags, or holey bags. The primary tools are written in Python, and make use of the iRODS command line utilities for data transfer.
- Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer
- This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare Library collection (246 archival units measuring 1.3TB) hosted on a University of North Texas (UNT) LOCKSS cache to a storage resource hosted by Chronopolis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
- Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices
- This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. The purpose of this document is to explain the PREMIS Event microservice as prototyped for the MetaArchive Cooperative, primarily from a developer's standpoint. The document will attempt to explain the purpose of the microservice, the underlying principles on which it operates, and a practical example of its usage. The MetaArchive has installed all of the components needed to deploy this microservice and looks forward to opportunities to experiment with practical implementations in future development projects.
- Appendix G: Contingency Plan Outline
- This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. In this appendix, the policy statements address the general requirements and procedures related to the enactment and handling of the MetaArchive Contingency Plan.
- Networking and Getting Involved Professionally
- This presentation discusses networking and career development. It includes information about becoming involved in professional organizations, attending conferences, creating business cards, and staying in contact with others in the profession.
- PREMIS Event Service
- This presentation discusses the PREMIS Event Service. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has created a digital library infrastructure that is designed using the Curation Micro Services methodology for building repositories. Based on modular components designed for reuse and re-configuration the authors propose a general-purpose preservation event logging system using the PREMIS Event and Agent data model.
- PREMIS Event Service
- This paper discusses the PREMIS Event Service. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries have created a digital library infrastructure that is designed using the Curation Micro Services methodology for building repositories. Based on modular components designed for reuse and re-configuration the authors propose a general-purpose preservation event logging system using the PREMIS Event and Agent data model. An example implementation developed with the Django Web framework and employing RESTful design patterns with the Atom Publishing Protocol is described.
- Digital Library Evaluation
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital libraries and methods used to evaluate these collections and the practices for developing and maintaining them.
- Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning
- This report describes policy recommendations for coastal and marine spatial planning in order to protect ecosystems while continuing to allow economic activity.
- Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project
- This presentation explains the End of Term Presidential Harvest, a collaborative project to preserve U.S. Government web sites at the end of the 2008 Presidential election. The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, California Digital Library, University of North Texas, and the US Government Printing Office were the participating organizations for this project.
- Forests and Emissions: A contribution to the Eliasch Review
- This report discusses the impacts of deforestation and reforestation on carbon emissions and carbon storage, and how change in land cover will affect future trends in climate change and carbon levels.
- Collection Plan Guidelines for Project Curators
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. These policy and planning documents typically guide collection management within libraries and archives. Some familiar concepts and practices from collection development for non-digital materials easily transfer to collection development for web-based materials while some new concepts and unfamiliar practices are introduced. To effectively manage web collections, it is good practice to either create new policies and plans or modify existing collection policies and plans.