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The Production Log: A Digital Imaging Capacity Replication Project

Description: This article describes the University of North Texas Digital Projects Unit Imaging Lab's replication of the Points Process system developed by the Northwestern University Libraries' Repository and DIgital Curation Department.
Date: March 16, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Collaborative Authorship as Peer Mentorship

Description: This article discusses the process of collaborative authorship as mentorship, demonstrated through the 3D Printed History of the Book Education (3Dhotbed) project.
Date: July 2, 2018
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney E.; McIntosh, Marcia & O'Sullivan, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Identity Management at the University of North Texas

Description: 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.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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EPIC: A Proposed Model for Approaching Metadata Improvement

Description: Abstract: This paper outlines iterative steps involved in metadata improvement within a digital library: Evaluate, Prioritize, Identify, and Correct (EPIC). The process involves evaluating metadata values system-wide to identify errors; prioritizing errors according to local criteria; identifying records containing a particular error; and correcting individual records to eliminate the error. Based on the experiences at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, we propose that these cycli… more
Date: 2020
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management

Description: Article describing name authority practices in institutional repositories at three universities -- University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, and the University of Arizona -- and how processes have been adapted in digital libraries to incorporate or be more compatible with linked data.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Graham, Suzanne
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Refining the process: An institutional approach to preparing projects for digitisation

Description: This article describes the opportunities identified in pre-processing projects and front-loading decision-making for physical collections by librarians at the University of North Texas Libraries. Over several years of managing digital projects, librarians at the University of North Texas Libraries have refined their knowledge management and digitization operations to realize gains in efficiency and error reduction, and to provide a more fluid imaging workflow for staff and student workers.
Date: Autumn 2022
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Mangum, Jake
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Metadata Analysis at the Command-Line

Description: This article discusses metadata analysis tools, processes, and methodologies aimed at helping to focus limited quality control resources on the areas of the collection where they might have the most benefit.
Date: January 15, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Perils of Complexity: A Multi-Stage Study to Determine Necessary Images for Digitized Scrapbook Representation

Description: Article on a multi-stage project to examine current practices and gain user perspectives on the images needed for optimal scrapbook representation in a digital library. The results from their work have enabled the implementation of clear guidelines on scrapbook digitization at their institution that can be applied throughout the field.
Date: May 17, 2021
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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The Bibliographical Maker Movement

Description: Paper offering an extended discourse on the full range of activities comprising the bibliographical maker movement, which in recent years has coalesced around the idea that maker culture may be employed to enhance our understanding of not only the history but also the future of the book.
Date: June 27, 2022
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney “Jet”; McIntosh, Marcia & O’Sullivan, Kevin M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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The Portal to Texas History: Building a Partnership Model for a Statewide Digital Library

Description: This chapter describes aspects of establishing the collaborations to create The Portal to Texas History, including the background of the project, marketing the initiative to potential partners, partnership roles and agreements, preservation of all digital master files, technical infrastructure to support partnership models, promoting standards and good practice, funding issues and development, research studies to understand partner benefits and user groups, sustainability issues, and future res… more
Date: April 2016
Creator: Belden, Dreanna; Phillips, Mark Edward; Carlisle, Tara & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Using existing metadata standards and tools for a digital language archive: a balancing act

Description: Article discusses how building a digital language archive requires a number of steps to ensure collecting, describing, preserving and providing access to language data in effective and efficient ways. This paper introduces the reader to the background of this project and discusses some of the areas important for representing language materials where both University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) metadata and CoRSAL metadata practices were adapted to better fit the needs of intended audiences.
Date: June 16, 2022
Creator: Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah; Phillips, Mark Edward & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Metadata Record Graphs to understand controlled vocabulary and keyword usage for subject representation in the UNT theses and dissertations collection

Description: This article discusses the use of network analysis through the creation Metadata Record Graphs to analyze the interconnectedness of subject and keywords in the University of North Texas Theses and Dissertations collection. The analysis compares overlap of controlled terms (Library of Congress Subject Headings) and uncontrolled terms (keywords), as well as the effects of basic format normalization (to simulate editing values for consistency) to evaluate how well subjects connect in the collecti… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Description: Article introduces the collaboration between the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) group and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library to build a series of interconnected digital collections for various language communities. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Spotlight on North Texas: Grant Materials

Description: These grant materials were prepared for a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage program to digitize, preserve, and provide access to community historical records. The award funded digitization of print and media items related to the motion picture history of Denton County and a lecture highlighting Denton’s film history and materials discovered during the program. For this grant, UNT served as the lead institution and collaborated with the Texas Archive of … more
Date: June 2015
Creator: Treat, Laura
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Introducing Name Authority into an ETD Collection

Description: Article on introducing name authority into a large electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) collection.
Date: July 3, 2014
Creator: Waugh, Laura; Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries

EPIC: An Iterative Model for Metadata Improvement

Description: Abstract: This paper provides a case study of iterative metadata correction and enhancement at the University of North Texas (UNT), within a model that we have developed to describe this process: Evaluate, Prioritize, Identify, Correct (EPIC). These steps are illustrated within the paper to show how they function at UNT and why it may serve as a useful tool for other organizations. We suggest that the EPIC model works for ongoing assessment, but is particularly useful for large remediation an… more
Date: 2022
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries

Exploring the Utility of Metadata Record Graphs and Network Analysis for Metadata Quality Evaluation and Augmentation

Description: Article discussing the effectiveness of network analysis for evaluating digital library metadata records. It provides count- and value-based statistics as well as network metrics for each of the two collections identified for this research and compares the usefulness of various data values for metadata quality analysis.
Date: 2020
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Zavalina, Oksana & Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries
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