Building Digital Archives

This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Archiving at UNT and End of Term Harvest 2008

This presentation illustrates the collaborative project with the University of North Texas (UNT) and the United States Government Printing Office as part of the Federal Depository Library Program. The CyberCemetery was created as an online archive of government websites that have ceased operation. This also discusses the UNT collaboration with the United States Government Printing Office, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and the California Digital Library in an End of Term Harvest project in 2008 to archive the Presidential campaign websites before they ceased to exist.
Date: November 7, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Archiving Workshop: Tools Overview

This presentation offers a brief discussion of web archiving tools. Tools include Wget, HTTrack, Heritrix, Wayback, and NutchWAX.
Date: June 4, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Archiving Workshop: Overview

This presentation gives a brief overview of the history of web archiving and explains key terms and concepts related to web archiving and harvesting with illustrated examples.
Date: June 4, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project

This presentation explains the End of Term Presidential Harvest, a collaborative project to preserve U.S. Government web sites at the end of the 2008 Presidential election. The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, California Digital Library, University of North Texas, and the US Government Printing Office were the participating organizations for this project.
Date: December 9, 2008
Creator: Grotke, Abigail; Phillips, Mark Edward & Barnum, George
System: The UNT Digital Library

URL Nominating Tool

This presentation gives an overview of the URL Nominating TOOL project and defines some of the associated key concepts. It explores the entity attribute value data model, URL's and SURTs, and batch imports.
Date: July 8, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas

This presentation discusses the preservation and digitization of content at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include a background of the digital initiatives at the UNT Libraries, the organization of the digital initiatives, the collaborative projects, the collections held by the UNT Libraries, and areas of research.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hello RDA, Goodbye AACR2!

This presentation is part of the pre-conference for the Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation introduces the conference and offers information on the agenda. The presentation also discusses talking points and issues relating to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2), Resource Description and Access (RDA), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD).
Date: April 15, 2008
Creator: Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications on assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata.
Date: September 24, 2008
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Palmer, Carole L.; Jackson, Amy S. & Han, Myung-Ja
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Effects of Anxiety in College Students

Presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the effects of anxiety in college students.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Mannon, Kristi & Taylor, Daniel J.
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Cost-Benefit Approach for Describing and Processing Digital Objects

This presentation discusses the costs and benefits associated with creating the metadata and ensuring metadata quality in The Portal to Texas History.
Date: August 30, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library

This presentation discusses the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit at the University of North Texas (UNT) and the IOGENE project. There are illustrated examples and discussion about the challenges faced with the IOGENE user studies.
Date: October 17, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library