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Cleaning Day: A Method for Digitization Lab Maintenance

Description: Presentation highlighting Cleaning Days at the UNT Digital Projects Lab. Cleaning Days are a part of regular maintenance in the Lab, and this presentation explains the process. It was presented at the 2025 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL).
Date: May 22, 2025
Creator: Guerrero, Brianna; McIntosh, Marcia & Kellum, Christina
Partner: UNT Libraries

An Oral History of Digitizing the Oral History Program Collection

Description: Presentation outlining the digitization of the UNT Oral History Program which required digitizing 1,300 bound transcripts. It was presented at the 2025 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL).
Date: May 22, 2025
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Fisher, Sarah Lynn & Wilson, Sara
Partner: UNT Libraries

What a News-ance! Developing Training Methods for Issue-Level, Newspaper Metadata

Description: Presentation overview of metadata training methods for newspapers hosted by The Portal to Texas History. It focuses on training for student employees, and it includes the development of training methods and tools, implementation, assessment, and future plans for improvement. It was presented at the 2025 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries which was hosted May 20-22, 2025 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 21, 2025
Creator: Lindsey, Hannah Gale & Edsall, Brooke
Partner: UNT Libraries

Mentoring Program Celebration Event

Description: Presentation on behalf of the Career Development Committee’s Mentoring Program covering the year’s successes and workshop ideas for developing a mentoring network.
Date: May 19, 2025
Creator: Hardin, Gregory & Wolski, Kristin A.
Partner: University of North Texas

Managing a User Feedback System for Digital Libraries

Description: This presentation is about how the presenters created and manage a user feedback system for digital libraries.
Date: May 22, 2024
Creator: Esparza, Daniel & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

The Inventory Machine

Description: This presentation details how the presenter takes inventory of received items, how those items are processed, and the documenting of that process.
Date: May 21, 2024
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Digitization Program Development and Management at the University of North Texas

Description: Launched in 2004, The Portal to Texas History digital library has experienced much change and had several opportunities for growth and development. This presentation will provide an overview of the University of North Texas Digital Libraries Division current standard practices. Centered around collections development, digitization, and preservation, talk attendees will gain insight on the creation, maintenance, and growth of a digital libraries program with a substantial digital footprint.
Date: May 9, 2024
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Mangum, Jake
Partner: UNT Libraries

Imaging Background Research

Description: This presentation discusses best practices for choosing background colors in digital imaging, and how to make those decisions based on item types and equipment.
Date: May 2024
Creator: Kellum, Christina
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Accessible History: Putting a Century of The Chronicles of Oklahoma Online

Description: Presentation sharing the project workflows for digitizing back issues of The Chronicles of Oklahoma. It has been published since 1921, and in 2020, the Oklahoma Historical Society partnered with the UNT Digital Library to make the back issues freely available through The Gateway to Oklahoma History. It was presented at the 2023 NASIG Conference held May 22-25, 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Date: May 25, 2023
Creator: Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.; Scott, Megan E. & Carroll, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries

Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods

Description: Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and cla… more
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Kellum, Christina
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Decision Trees for Answering User Feedback

Description: Presentation on how feedback is handled by the University of North Texas Digital Library, including the management system, staffing resources, and some historical data. It focuses on the creation of decision trees to guide staff members through answering different types of questions and requests. 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: Fisher, Sarah Lynn & Coates, Maci
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

20 Years of Archiving the French Electoral Web

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation describes the process and outcomes of a 20-year project to archive the French electoral web by performing the first in-house crawl conducted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Benhamou-Suesser, Dorothée & Crinière-Boizet, Anaïs
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

Addressing the Adverse Impacts of JavaScript on Web Archives

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation identifies the problems associated with JavaScript being increasingly used on web archive pages, and provides solutions for these problems.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Goel, Ayush; Zhu, Jingyuan; Netravali, Ravi & Madhyastha, Harsha V.
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

Archiving the Web for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022â„¢

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation explores the mission of the Qatar National Library, the World Cup 2022â„¢ Website Archiving Project, and the challenges presented by copyright laws and where to host the project's web crawl.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Shaon, Arif
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

Arquivo.pt Behind the Curtains

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation describes the processes and people behind Arquivo.pt, a Portuguese web archive that preserves information from the web related to Portugal, research, and education, and is freely accessible to searchers.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Gomes, Daniel
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

Automating Monthly Clean Up: No longer a babysitter

Description: Presentation on automating the clean up of catalog records in Sierra using SQL queries and Python scripts. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
Partner: UNT Libraries

Back to Class: Capturing the University of Cambridge Domain

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation discusses the history of the university archives of the Cambridge University Libraries and a project conducted to capture the website domain using tools such as HTTrack and Conifer.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Smith, Caylin & Talboom, Leontien
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

Browser-Based Crawling for All: The Story So Far

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation discusses the browser-based web crawler Browsertrix and its implementation.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Klindt Myrvoll, Anders
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium
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