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Piloting Photogrammetry in Digital Libraries

Description: Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation focuses on photogrammetry methods used for model creation as well as metadata description, uploading, and viewing of the models in the UNT Digital Library.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

A Peek in the Portal: The University of North Texas The Portal to Texas History

Description: This presentation provides a brief look into the digital collections added to The University of North Texas’ The Portal to Texas History in the last year. Examples include projects completed through our Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant program for 2014, The Barbara Jordan Archives Collection, and the Texas Historical Commission’s Historic Building Negatives Collection among others.
Date: April 14, 2016
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Metadata Enhancement Through Name Authority in the UNT Digital Library

Description: This book chapter contains a case study discussing the University of North Texas Libraries' implementation of name authority control in the UNT Digital Library as a means of increasing metadata records' quality and consistency, and of improving end-user retrieval.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Trends in Digital Newspaper Delivery: Leveraging existing resources, collaborations, and interoperability in the libraries community

Description: This presentation reflects on the latest efforts toward improving the digital delivery of "hyperlocal" news in libraries, followed by open discussion, with a focus on multi-institutional collaborations, leveraging existing platforms and resources, and interoperability via IIIF for digital newspapers.
Date: December 12, 2016
Creator: Rabun, Sheila; Estlund, Karen & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
open access

A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at The University of North Texas Libraries

Description: This article describes the methods and lessons learned from conducting the Rescuing Texas History mini-grant program, which serves as a model for sustainable large-scale digitization initiatives.
Date: July 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Mangum, Jacob & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
open access

User Experience of Access Points: Eye-tracking, Metadata, and Usability Testing

Description: This doctoral dissertation applies user experience and complex systems theory, combining eye-tracking data with verbal and observational data from user test instances, to study the effectiveness of metadata records that accompany digital primary source objects available on The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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