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Sustaining Multilinguality: Case Studies of Two Multilingual Digital Libraries

Description: Digital libraries have become valuable learning resources for information users. However, language barriers have greatly limited information access for many digital libraries, as users do not understand those languages. This study explored technical and operational challenges digital libraries faced in sustaining multilinguality. Using the multiple-case method, the study investigated two digital libraries that have sustained multilinguality for over a decade: the World Digital Library and the D… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Wu, Anping
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Smoothing the information seeking path: Removing representational obstacles in the middle-school digital library.

Description: Middle school student's interaction within a digital library is explored. Issues of interface features used, obstacles encountered, search strategies and search techniques used, and representation obstacles are examined. A mechanism for evaluating user's descriptors is tested and effects of augmenting the system's resource descriptions with these descriptors on retrieval is explored. Transaction log data analysis (TLA) was used, with external corroborating achievement data provided by teachers.… more
Date: May 2002
Creator: Abbas, June M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries

Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas

Description: This presentation discusses the preservation and digitization of content at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include a background of the digital initiatives at the UNT Libraries, the organization of the digital initiatives, the collaborative projects, the collections held by the UNT Libraries, and areas of research.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries

UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

Description: This presentation provides an overview for the University of North Texas Libraries' digital collections: The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and the Gateway to Oklahoma History.
Date: August 14, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
open access

Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices

Description: 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 expe… more
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

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

Description: 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: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

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

Description: 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: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Diffusion across the digital divide: Assessing use of the Connecticut Digital Library (ICONN) in K-12 schools in Connecticut.

Description: State digital libraries are manifestations of the diffusion of technology that has provided both access to and delivery of digital content. Whether the content is being accessed and used equitably in K-12 schools has not been assessed. Determining patterns of the diffusion of use across socioeconomic groups in K-12 schools may help measure the success of existing efforts to provide equitable access and use of digital content, and help guide policies and implementation to more effectively addr… more
Date: December 2008
Creator: Bogel, Gayle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries

Texas Digital Newspaper Program Issue Dataset for IFLA/Rootstech Analysis

Description: This dataset contains the descriptive metadata harvested from the Texas Digital Newspaper Program collection on The Portal to Texas History and is accompanied by a dataset derived from the harvested metadata. This dataset was used for an IFLA Newspaper Section and Rootstech presentation.
Date: January 16, 2014
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana
Item Type: Refine your search to only Dataset
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities

Description: Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This paper provides an overall scenario in the areas of aggregating a variety of digital formats, archiving digital content, and innovative uses of digital library technologies.
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Item Type: Refine your search to only Paper
Partner: UNT Libraries

Open Access at the UNT Libraries

Description: 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.
Date: May 20, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Texas Newspaper PDF Preservation: A Low-Cost Solution with Tremendous Value

Description: Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2014 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress General Conference. This paper discusses Texas newspaper PDF preservation and low-cost solutions with tremendous value.
Date: August 7, 2014
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Paper
Partner: UNT Libraries

Tools and Workflows for Managing Metadata at the UNT Libraries

Description: Presentation for the Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Virtual Conference. This presentation provides an overview of interface design features in the metadata editing system for the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections.
Date: November 7, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

New Interfaces for Metadata Quality Improvement in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

Description: Presentation for the Innovating with Metadata Virtual Conference. This presentation provides an overview of interface design features in the metadata editing system for the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections.
Date: November 9, 2017
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Supporting Faculty Scholarly Activity

Description: This presentation is part of a panel discussion titled Academic Libraries as Partners in Research. This presentation discusses how digital libraries can support faculty scholarly activity, with examples and strategies from the UNT Digital Library collections.
Date: January 21, 2012
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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