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Facing the Challenge of Web Archives Preservation: the Role and Work of the IIPC Preservation Working Group (open access)

Facing the Challenge of Web Archives Preservation: the Role and Work of the IIPC Preservation Working Group

This paper documents the results of a survey about the current state of preservation in International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) member web archives.
Date: October 2014
Creator: Goethals, Andrea; Oury, Clément; Pearson, David; Sierman, Barbara & Steinke, Tobias
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project (open access)

Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project

In this paper, the authors describe research led by Educopia Institute regarding the preservation needs for digitized and born-digital newspapers. The 'Chronicles in Preservation' project, builds upon previous efforts (e.g. the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program) to look more broadly at the needs of digital newspapers in all of their diverse and challenging forms. This paper conveys the findings of the first research phase, including substantive survey results regarding digital newspaper curation practices.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Schultz, Matt; Halbert, Martin & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings Pertaining to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (open access)

Findings Pertaining to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections

This paper discusses the findings pertaining to the framework for building good digital collections. This paper is part of the three-year interim project report for the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project, summarizing major findings October 2002 through September 2005.
Date: October 2006
Creator: Cole, Timothy W.; Jackson, Amy S.; Palmer, Carole L.; Shreeves, Sarah L.; Twidale, Michael B. & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Exploratory Study of the Description Field in the Digital Public Library of America (open access)

An Exploratory Study of the Description Field in the Digital Public Library of America

This paper presents results of an exploratory, quantitative analysis regarding the application of a free-text Description metadata element and data values associated with this element within aggregated metadata harvested from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Date: October 14, 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beyond Size and Search: Building Contextual Mass in Digital Aggregations for Scholarly Use (open access)

Beyond Size and Search: Building Contextual Mass in Digital Aggregations for Scholarly Use

This paper discusses building contextual mass in digital aggregations for scholarly use.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Palmer, Carole L.; Zavalina, Oksana & Fenlon, Katrina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Curation in the Academic Library Job Market (open access)

Digital Curation in the Academic Library Job Market

Paper for the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This paper discusses digital curation in the academic library job market.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Warga, Edward & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Big Data and Government Information (open access)

Big Data and Government Information

Panel paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This panel explores the current landscape of big data applications for government information.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward; Smith, Lisa & Shimabuku, Hope
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rethinking How We Pay for Scholarly Monographs (open access)

Rethinking How We Pay for Scholarly Monographs

Paper for an invited presentation at a 2015 meeting of the Southwest Area Theological Library Association (SWATLA). This paper discusses rethinking how we pay for scholarly monographs.
Date: October 2, 2015
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personal Knowledge Management for Empowerment (PKM4E): A Framework for Tackling Rising Big Data and Extelligence (open access)

Personal Knowledge Management for Empowerment (PKM4E): A Framework for Tackling Rising Big Data and Extelligence

Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper focuses on the empowerment of the individual in light of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) learning cycles by extending the ignorance matrix in the context of Big Data and Extelligence.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Schmitt, Ulrich
System: The UNT Digital Library
Law Student Information Seeking, and Understanding of Citation, Common Knowledge, and Plagiarism (open access)

Law Student Information Seeking, and Understanding of Citation, Common Knowledge, and Plagiarism

Presentation paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper studies information seeking behavior among law students including: how previous literacy training before and during law school, law student gender, where one attends law school, year in law school, and previously obtained education affects law students' selection of information sources, their understanding of common knowledge, and their decision of whether or not to give attribution to these sources.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Helge, Kris
System: The UNT Digital Library