Exploration of Metadata Practices in Digital Collections of Archives with Arabian Language Materials (open access)

Exploration of Metadata Practices in Digital Collections of Archives with Arabian Language Materials

Article for a study aimed to develop understanding of the current state of metadata practices in digital collections of archival institutions in the Arabian Gulf region. It also explored perspectives (including attitudes and possible barriers) for development of large-scale regional portals that would facilitate discovery of Arab digital archives (including language collections) by aggregating metadata. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023.
Date: June 4, 2023
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards Making Shared Metadata Interoperable across the Open Language Archives Community (open access)

Towards Making Shared Metadata Interoperable across the Open Language Archives Community

Article presenting two methods for connecting aggregated records to their source institutional metadata profiles. The use case of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) application profile is considered and evaluated. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023.
Date: June 4, 2023
Creator: Paterson, Hugh, III
System: The UNT Digital Library
OLAC and Serials: An Appraisal (open access)

OLAC and Serials: An Appraisal

Article reporting on how journal articles are presented within the Open Language Archive Community’s (OLAC) OAI-PMH aggregator for language resources. Understanding how secondary journal materials are presented in OLAC records is a first step towards increasing the end-user utility of the OLAC aggregator. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023.
Date: June 4, 2023
Creator: Paterson, Hugh, III
System: The UNT Digital Library
Language Archiving Training: A Case Study of a Metadata Course in Library and Information Science Graduate Program, 2020 - 2023 (open access)

Language Archiving Training: A Case Study of a Metadata Course in Library and Information Science Graduate Program, 2020 - 2023

Article explores the training gap between the way these materials are organized and represented and the understanding of that data – and expectations towards the more functional ways of its organization and representation – by language preservation and revitalization researchers, and by members of language communities. Information resources collected by language archives have unique attributes of importance to their target user groups, and these attributes and their representation are not currently widely addressed by the formal training provided to information professionals. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023.<
Date: June 16, 2023
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Library Computing Services in Rural Texas during the COVID-19 Pandemic (open access)

Library Computing Services in Rural Texas during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Article analyzing the 2020 Texas Public Library Statistics and a portion of the 2019 and 2018 data. It examined various services from libraries located in the areas with a population of less than 5,000. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published article.
Date: June 23, 2022
Creator: Du, Yunfei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital humanities in the iSchool (open access)

Digital humanities in the iSchool

This article presents findings from a series of related studies exploring aspects of Digital Humanities teaching, education, and research in iSchools, often in collaboration with other units and disciplines. Results provide a snapshot of the current state of digital humanities in iSchools which may usefully inform the design and evolution of new DH programs, degrees, and related initiatives.
Date: June 21, 2021
Creator: Walsh, John A.; Cobb, Peter J.; de Fremery, Wayne; Golub, Koraljka; Keah, Humphrey; Kim, Jeonghyun et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library