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Using Digitized Historical Newspapers to Engage Sociology Students in Local History [Presentation]

Description: Presentation highlighting a course developed by Dr. William Scarborough at the University of North Texas (UNT) on intersectionality for undergraduate students. Partnering with the UNT Libraries to engage with primary sources, particularly newspaper collections, to conduct archival analysis related to the history of power, domination and resistance in Texas communities.
Date: August 17, 2023
Creator: Krahmer, Ana; Scarborough, William & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Making Audio/Visual Digital Collections Content Accessible for All Texans

Description: Data management plan for the grant "Making Audio/Visual Digital Collections Content Accessible for All Texans." Project to improve audio/visual (A/V) content accessibility available through The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries. The project addresses the needs of Deaf and Blind users who often lack fundamental access for many A/V materials in digital repositories while also providing benefit to abled users and those with other special needs through efforts to tr… more
Date: 2021-09-01/2022-08-31
Creator: Hicks, William
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Extending Classification Models with Bibliographic Metadata: Datasets and Results [Video]

Description: Recording sharing information on how various web archives were used to create datasets to support a collaborative project to use machine models to assist in the classification of high-value publications from the web. The ultimate goal of this work is to create methods for identifying publications that we can add to existing digital library infrastructures that support discovery, access, and further preservation of these resources. This recording originated from the IIPC General Assembly and Web… more
Date: April 25, 2024
Duration: 14 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Caragea, Cornelia; Park, Seo Yeon; Rikka, Praneeth & Pandi, Saran
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

LCMPT, LCGFT, and Discovery at UNT Libraries

Description: This presentation explores the addition of Library of Congress Genre Form Terms (LCGFT) and Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus (LCMPT) into the discovery system at the University of North Texas Libraries. It was presented as part of a panel, A Subject, a Genre, and a Medium Walk into a Search Bar…, at the Meeting of the Music Library Association in 2024.
Date: February 29, 2024
Creator: Thomale, Jason
Partner: UNT Libraries

Wrangling Serial Titles and Place Names in the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections

Description: This presentation discusses challenges, approaches, and examples related to the decision to manage titles and place names in a more robust way in the UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections. It was given as part of the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries on May 24, 2022.
Date: May 24, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries

TRAIL Microcard Update

Description: Presentation discussing the status of the TRAIL Microcard Scanning Project at the University of North Texas. This presentation was given at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting on May 25, 2022.
Date: May 25, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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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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Cybersecurity Challenges in the Era of Open Access and BIG Data: Issues and Considerations

Description: Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2019 pre-conference held on October 19, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The panelists discussed cybersecurity challenges and provided an assessment of the cybersecurity issues related to open access and big data.
Date: October 19, 2019
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Chang, Hsia-Ching; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Rorissa, Abebe & Assefa, Shimelis
Partner: UNT Libraries

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Description: Presentation describing the ongoing CoRSAL (Computational Resource for South Asian Languages) project, including background on the UNT Digital Library infrastructure and metadata schema, specific fields that have presented issues or areas of discussion for language data records (language, creator/contributor, and relation), and final conclusions about the collaboration so far.
Date: September 30, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries

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
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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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North-South Scholarly Collaboration: Opportunities and Experiences in Africa

Description: Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2021 conference held on October 23-November 3, 2021 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The panel was meant to stimulate future north-south collaborations by increasing awareness of both funded opportunities and low budget initiatives for scholarly exchanges and collaborations, benefits for scholars and their institutions in developed and developing countries, and best practices with respect to north-south co… more
Date: October 31, 2021
Creator: Sonnenwald, Diane H.; Rorissa, Abebe; Fourie, Ina; Julien, Heidi; Raju, Jaya & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries
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“Unity in Diversity”: A Conversation around the Interdisciplinary Identity of Information Science

Description: Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2021 conference held on October 23-November 3, 2021 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The panel's goals were: (1) to engage researchers and educators in an interactive discussion on the contributing factors and ways in which information science can remain a diverse and interdisciplinary field, realize its full potential, and build a strong identity as well as identify potential barriers it needs to overcome… more
Date: October 31, 2021
Creator: Rorissa, Abebe; Iyer, Hemalata; Albright, Kendra; Potnis, Devendra; Caidi, Nadia & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Managing an institutional repository workflow with GitLab and a folder-based deposit system

Description: This article highlights the application of GitLab in ingesting material into an institutional repository and the folder-based deposit system that is used to move deposited resources through the ingestion process.
Date: February 10, 2021
Creator: Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.; Phillips, Mark Edward & Phillips, Kristy
Partner: UNT Libraries
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