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Enhancing UNT's Presence in Sub-Saharan Africa: Building Partnership with Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions

Description: Paper accompanying a presentation at the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses enhancing UNT's presence in Sub-Saharan Africa and building partnerships with Ethiopian higher education institutions.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation

Description: This paper analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms – both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords – used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: December 27, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Metadata versus Full-Text: Tracking Users’ Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Seeking Behavior

Description: Presentation for the 2018 iConference. This presentation provides data from a recent research project at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to better understand how users are discovering electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the UNT Libraries.
Date: March 26, 2018
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Developing an Outreach Plan for UNT Scholarly Works

Description: Presentation for the 2016 Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Conference, discussing the details of how an outreach plan was created for the UNT Scholarly Works collection using institutional data to identify gaps in university participation.
Date: November 16, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

UNT Faculty Analysis of Scholarly Works

Description: This presentation provides a breakdown of current faculty contributions to the UNT Scholarly Works collection by department, tenure-status, and involvement with non-traditional works such as Honors College collaborations and patents.
Date: August 5, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

UNT Libraries ETD Citation Analysis Project

Description: Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses results from an analysis of UNT Electronic Theses and Dissertations citing URLs to items from the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Klein, Janette; Harker, Karen & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Art Lies: A Contemporary Art Quarterly

Description: This is the official website for Art Lies, a print quarterly arts publication. Founded in Texas, Art Lies offers a critical examination of artistic practice, theory, and discourse on and about the contemporary arts. The first issue of Art Lies was published in 1994. The site includes news, information about current and past issues, the journal's editorial policies, advertising rates. Art Lies ceased operation in 2011.
Date: 2011
Creator: Art Lies
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

After the Harvest: Preservation, Access, and Researcher Services for the 2016 End of Term Archive

Description: This presentation discusses the End of Term Archive and methods for identifying and selecting in-scope content (including using registries, indices, and crowdsourcing URL nominations ["seeds"] through a web application called the URL Nomination Tool), new strategies for capturing web content (including crawling, browser rendering, and social media tools), access models including both an online portal as well as research datasets for use in computational analysis, and preservation data replicati… more
Date: December 13, 2016
Creator: Bailey, Jefferson; Grotke, Abigail & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Harvesting Democracy: Archiving Federal Government Web Content at End of Term

Description: This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Presidential web archive. This overview will help law librarians understand the history and scope of the "End of Term Web Archive" project so they can help select the right sites to harvest, make profitable use of the preserved materials, and more fully appreciate the urgent need for preserving web-based government information.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Bailey, Jefferson; Grotke, Abigail & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Making the Most Out of Collaboration: Partnerships & Grant Applications for Long-Term Preservation

Description: This presentation discusses the collaboration between Tarleton Library and Stephenville Public Library for a grant to digitize two early newspapers previously only available on microfilm, and collaborative partnership models for digital preservation of materials and grant applications.
Date: December 16, 2016
Creator: Castillo, Amy
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Denton Plan 2030

Description: This is the official website for the Denton Plan 2030. Denton Plan 2030 is an effort by the city of Denton, Texas to update its comprehensive plan for the future growth and development of Denton. The Denton Plan involves input from local residents, as well as the Denton City Council's Planning and Zoning Commission and the Denton Planning Department. The site includes information about the contents of the plan, the planning process, how to get involved, local events, press coverage, and contact… more
Date: 2013
Creator: Denton (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Saving the Byrds: Reshaping Digitization Workflows for Photographic Materials

Description: Presentation detailing the customized workflow established for the creation of the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection in the UNT Digital Library, as well as the unique problems and solutions that arose throughout the course of the project. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: Ekberg, Samantha
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers

Description: This paper discusses the use of digital newspaper pages through the Library of Congress database Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers as a case study to demonstrate the value of developing tools to locate non-textual content.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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