Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (open access)

Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation

The "Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation" (ANADP) conference was held at the National Library of Estonia, from May 23-25, 2011. More than 125 delegates from more than 20 countries were gathered in Tallinn, Estonia and explored how to create and sustain international collaborations to support the preservation of digital cultural memory. This publication contains a collection of peer-reviewed essays that were developed by conference panels and attendees in the months following ANADP.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Educopia Institute
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography (open access)

Transforming Scholarly Publishing Through Open Access: A Bibliography

This bibliography provides citations of books, articles, and technical reports about the Open Access movement.
Date: 2010
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works (open access)

Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works

The preface states that the work includes citations of articles, books, and technical reports on digital curation, mostly published between 2000 and 2011 in English. The bibliogrphy doesnot cover conference papers, digital media works, editorials, presentation slides, unpublished e-prints, or weblog postings.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Bailey, Charles W., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 (open access)

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010

The preface states that the work includes citations of articles, books, and technical reports on digital curation, mostly published between 2000 and 2010.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Scholarship 2009 (open access)

Digital Scholarship 2009

The work is a bibliography of digital scholarship containing citations of articles, books, and technical reports on institutional repositories and scholarly electronic publishing
Date: 2010
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 (open access)

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010

This bibliography lists citations of English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2010; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation (open access)

New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation

The report looks at how libraries are developing new roles and services in the arena of digital curation for preservation. The authors consider a "promising set of new roles that libraries are currently carving out in the digital arena," describing emerging strategies for libraries and librarians and highlighting collaborative approaches through a series of case studies of key programs and projects. They also provide helpful definitions and offer recommendations for libraries considering how best to make or expand their investments in digital curation. Issues and developments within and across the sciences and humanities are considered.
Date: March 2011
Creator: Walters, Tyler & Skinner, Katherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of the Federal Web Report (open access)

State of the Federal Web Report

The report highlights the size and scope of federal websites, how agencies are managing them, and opportunities for improvement.
Date: 2011
Creator: .gov Reform Task Force
System: The UNT Digital Library
Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries (open access)

Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries

This study examines basic functional aspects of large digital libraries and draws on examples of existing digital libraries to illustrate their varying approaches to storage and content delivery, metadata approaches and harvesting, search and discovery, services and applications, and system sustainability.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Henry, Geneva
System: The UNT Digital Library
Access to Knowledge: a guide for everyone (open access)

Access to Knowledge: a guide for everyone

According to the back cover, this book introduces the Access to Knowledge movement, which aims to create more equitable public access to the products of human culture and learning.
Date: 2010
Creator: Noronha, Frederick & Malcolm, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taking Stock: Sharing Responsibility for Print Preservation (open access)

Taking Stock: Sharing Responsibility for Print Preservation

In "Taking Stock: Sharing Responsibility for Print Preservation," Roger Schonfeld surveys the progress made in the past decade, and warns against the conflation of collaborative print management and improved access to collections with preservation. This issue brief was presented at Preserving America's Print Resources II: A North American Summit in Berkeley, California, on June 25, 2015. The full conference program is available at http://www.crl.edu/events/preserving-americas-print-resources-ii-north-american-summit.
Date: July 8, 2015
Creator: Schonfeld, Roger C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ETD Lifecycle Management Tools Manual (open access)

ETD Lifecycle Management Tools Manual

The IMLS-funded Lifecycle Management of ETDs project has researched, developed, and/or documented a suite of modular Lifecycle Management Tools for curating electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The project targeted the following curation activities: Virus Checking, Format Recognition, Preservation Event Record-Keeping, and Simple ETD & Metadata Submission. This manual describes how to implement Lifecycle Management Tools for those activities. The manual is written for ETD Program Managers. It describes a general rationale and use case for each curation activity mentioned above in the context of an ETD program. While the technical and administrative implementations of ETD programs are diverse, this manual includes generalized recommendations for where and when to deploy the tools in an ETD submission workflow. ETD Program Managers are encouraged to coordinate with the full range of stakeholders (including the graduate schools, libraries, campus IT, and vendors) to adapt tools to their implementation.
Date: September 29, 2014
Creator: Schultz, Matt; Eisenhauer, Stephen & Krabbenhoeft, Nick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Analysis of  Distributed Digital Preservation  (DDP) Systems (open access)

Comparative Analysis of Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP) Systems

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-funded Chronicles in Preservation project (http://metaarchive.org/neh/) completed this Comparative Analysis of three Distributed Digital Preservation systems to analyze their underlying technologies and methodologies: -Chronopolis using iRODS (http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/). -University of North Texas using Coda (http://www.library.unt.edu/). -MetaArchive Cooperative using LOCKSS (http://metaarchive.org/). This Comparative Analysis is not intended to designate any of the Distributed Digital Preservation (DDP) systems as superior or inferior to one another in any of the areas disclosed. On the contrary, digital preservation is often best served by maintaining a variety of solutions, and each of the three DDP systems have partnered actively with one another on several digital preservation initiatives and are learning constantly from one another’s approaches. The Chronicles in Preservation project, and more specifically, this Comparative Analysis, has been undertaken by these three systems in order to test, document, and refine their processes, not in isolation, but as a collaborative effort.
Date: April 2, 2014
Creator: Schultz, Matt & Skinner, Katherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Access to knowledge for consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research 2008-2010 (open access)

Access to knowledge for consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research 2008-2010

According to the back cover, this book reports the results of a global survey of consumers, revealing barriers to access and use of copyright materials, research on copyright law reform, and advocacy focused on improving knowledge access in several developing countries.
Date: 2010
Creator: Consumers International
System: The UNT Digital Library