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Conover 101: Intro to Willis Conover [Presentation]

Description: Presentation on the life and career of Willis Conover for the Willis Conover Centennial Symposium held virtually on December 11, 2020.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: December 11, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Partner: UNT Music Library

Evaluation of Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arabian Gulf Countries: A Case Study of Alqabas Archive

Description: Presentation exploring how information is organized in digital cultural heritage collection in Arabian Gulf countries. Study reveals high metadata quality overall but lack of consistency for many metadata fields, explained in part by the absence of metadata creation guidelines and professional training for metadata creators.
Date: December 4, 2020
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information

EPIC: A Proposed Model for Approaching Metadata Improvement

Description: Presentation for the 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research proposing a model that delineates the components of metadata improvement as an iterative cycle, based on the work and experiences at UNT.
Date: December 3, 2020
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia

Description: This presentation covers a study conducted on tourism in Ethiopia. The study used an Ontology approach to research how Ethiopian tourism destination information can be supported with a machine-readable and interoperable model, be made visible and accessible to both international and local tourists, and improve reusability, integrity, and retrieval of tourist information in Ethiopia.
Date: 2020-12-03/2020-12-05
Creator: Hussen, Tijani
Partner: UNT Libraries

Techniques and Technologies for Teaching and Learning Online

Description: This presentation explores several techniques and technologies used to deliver information to learners in synchronous and asynchronous environments. It was presented at the Art Libraries Society of North America's Texas-Mexico Chapter Annual Meeting on November 13, 2020.
Date: November 13, 2020
Creator: Roy, Meranda M.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Preserving History By Building Access: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Description: Presentation on how to build digital newspaper collections via the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) on The Portal to Texas History. It highlights grant opportunities that are available to support libraries in building access to their newspapers and demonstrates how to use the digital newspaper collections. It was presented at the Texas Library Association District 9 Fall 2020 meeting held virtually on October 29, 2020.
Date: October 29, 2020
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries

Open Access in the Age of Pandemic

Description: Presentation on the potential of open access to increase exposure and use of published research. The presentation includes sections on the impact of open access in relation to OA community initiatives, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the COVID-19 pandemic, and open access data.
Date: October 27, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Chang, Hsia-Ching; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis & Helge, Kris
Partner: UNT Libraries

Taking Your Students Through Time: By Traveling Through Newspapers

Description: Presentation introducing the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and providing possible uses for it in the classroom. It was presented for the Fall 2020 HIST 4750.001, Social Studies Teaching Methods, course.
Date: October 27, 2020
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries

Investigation of Descriptive Richness of Free-Text Metadata in Language Archives

Description: This presentation introduces language archives and analyzes item‐level metadata in three of them by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.
Date: October 26, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information

Amplifying Community Voices in Language Archives Through Participatory Archiving

Description: Presentation from a panel, "Considering Individual and Community Contexts Within Information Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Practice," that was held virtually for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). This portion of the panel focuses on the author's research into community-based language research (CBLR) and the Lamkang language.
Date: October 25, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information

Skill-Building in Online Graduate-Level Metadata Instruction through the Prism of Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata

Description: Presentation addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.
Date: October 21, 2020
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Burke, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information

Open Access Increases Educators Ability to Plan Equitable Curriculum: Global Context

Description: This presentation gives an overview of Open Access including its definition, basic assumptions, open access registries, technology and trends, technological structure, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities. It then applies this to the need for developing countries' contributions to global knowledge production and creating institutional initiatives.
Date: 2020-10-14/2020-10-16
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela
Partner: UNT Libraries

Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman

Description: Presentation on the author's interviews with three scholars of Bodish languages about their experiences, materials, and preservation plans and their reflections on language archives, particularly in regards to accessibility and usability for pedagogy. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Hildebrandt, Kristine
Partner: UNT College of Information

Archiving Community Work

Description: Presentation on archiving community work in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Post, Mark W.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Center for Endangered Languages, Sikkim University's Collection - An Epistemic Background

Description: Presentation on the overview of the Centre for Endangered Languages at Sikkim University and the development of the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalayas Endangered Language Archive (SiDHELA). It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Narayanan, Karthick & Takhellambam, Meiraba
Partner: UNT College of Information

Curating materials on ICSTLL languages- The case of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

Description: Presentation on four areas of materials in need of archiving and return to the communities in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Morey, Stephen & Post, Mark W.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Data on Burmic Languages

Description: Presentation on the status of existing data on Burmic langauges, including what medium it is on, whether it is archived, and the level of description it has, from 1971-present. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Bradley, David
Partner: UNT College of Information

Digital Himalaya: Reflections on obsolescence & regeration

Description: Presentation on Digital Himalaya since its launch in 2010, and how its mission has changed along with technology and sustainability. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Turin, Mark
Partner: UNT College of Information

KokBorok

Description: Presentation about the development KokBorok Language Resource as an example of CoRSAL's goal of connecting legacy material with more current audiovisual resources. Samir Debarma describes the status of the KokBorok language; Merrion Dale discusses digitization; Shobhana Chelliah outlines the goals of the Endangered Languages Fund Language Legacies grant. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Debbarma, Samir; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Dale, Merrion
Partner: UNT College of Information

People, projects and resources on the languages of NE India

Description: Presentation on the authors' research and collection development for the languages in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Coupe, Alexander R. & Sarmah, Priyankoo
Partner: UNT College of Information

Status of Qiangic language data

Description: Presentation on the author's work on the Qiangic languages and relevant work by other researchers. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting for Reporting and Exploring held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Partner: UNT College of Information

The Past Sure Is Tense: Revisiting Rock History Narratives with the John Gilliland Pop Chronicles Interviews [Presentation]

Description: Presentation on the interviews present in the John Gilliland Collection, and how they can inform rock music historiography. It was presented at the joint Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association and the Southwest Chapter of the American Musicology Society meeting held on September 24-26, 2020.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: September 26, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Partner: UNT Music Library
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