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Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India (open access)

Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India

Article reviewing one particular challenge to data management relevant to South Asia, which is the complexity of names (of individuals, groups, and languages). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL (open access)

Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL

Article on the development of a workflow process that can accommodate the range of different language depositors in the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Dale, Merrion
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive (open access)

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Article introduces the collaboration between the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) group and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library to build a series of interconnected digital collections for various language communities. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive (open access)

Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive

Article describing a pilot project undertaken at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) which explores a collaborative archiving approach to enable language community members to tell their own stories by adding contextual information to archival materials. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Opting Out: Parents Creating Contested Spaces to Challenge Standardized Tests (open access)

Opting Out: Parents Creating Contested Spaces to Challenge Standardized Tests

This article explores how the opt-out movement has responded to the combination of a stringent federal policy with weak and often variable implementation among the states.
Date: March 7, 2016
Creator: Mitra, Dana; Mann, Bryan & Hlavacik, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
News, new roles & preservation advocacy: Moving Libraries into action (open access)

News, new roles & preservation advocacy: Moving Libraries into action

This paper discusses how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. It delves into some of the reasons why this convent is not yet preserved, and examines the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type.
Date: June 7, 2016
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine; Wilson, Marc & Zarndt, Frederick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Newspaper PDF Preservation: A Low-Cost Solution with Tremendous Value (open access)

Texas Newspaper PDF Preservation: A Low-Cost Solution with Tremendous Value

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2014 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress General Conference. This paper discusses Texas newspaper PDF preservation and low-cost solutions with tremendous value.
Date: August 7, 2014
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Impact of Open Access on the Current Landscape of Scholarly Communication

Presentation for Jimma University in summer 2015 discussing the impact of open access on the current landscape of scholarly communication.
Date: July 7, 2015
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inter-organizational digital divide: Civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project (open access)

Inter-organizational digital divide: Civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project

Article on inter-organizational digital divides and civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project.
Date: November 7, 2011
Creator: Ignatow, Gabriel & Schuett, Jessica Lynn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preparing School Library Media Specialists for Resource Description and Access (RDA)

This presentation discusses preparing school library media specialists for resource description and access (RDA). In particular, the authors present the basic Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) concepts and discuss them in the context of RDA implementation. The authors provide the correlation between AACR2 and RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats: monograph, electronic resource, AV, etc. Lastly, the authors discuss implementation options and vendor(s) interaction.
Date: November 7, 2009
Creator: Schultz-Jones, Barbara & Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization Decisions (open access)

Examining MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization Decisions

Article examining MARC records as artifacts that reflect metadata utilization decisions.
Date: August 7, 2006
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Encouraging Digital Scholarship in Graduate Education

Panel presentation for the 2015 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses strategies for encouraging digital scholarship in graduate education.
Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Barham, Rebecca; Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Mirza, Rafia; Smith, Susan & Waugh, Laura
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Storage of Electronic Files of Federal Agencies That Have Ceased Operation: A Partnership for Permanent Access (open access)

Storage of Electronic Files of Federal Agencies That Have Ceased Operation: A Partnership for Permanent Access

Article on the storage of electronic files of Federal Agencies that have ceased operation and a partnership for permanent access.
Date: August 7, 2000
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improvement of processing speed in executive function immediately following an increase in cardiovascular activity (open access)

Improvement of processing speed in executive function immediately following an increase in cardiovascular activity

Article on the improvement of processing speed in executive function immediately following an increase in cardiovascular activity.
Date: August 7, 2013
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tools and Workflows for Managing Metadata at the UNT Libraries

Presentation for the Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Virtual Conference. This presentation provides an overview of interface design features in the metadata editing system for the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections.
Date: November 7, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method for Generating Numerical Values Indicative of Frequencies of Selected Features in Objects, and a Computer System Implementing the Method (open access)

Method for Generating Numerical Values Indicative of Frequencies of Selected Features in Objects, and a Computer System Implementing the Method

Patent relating to methods for generating numerical values indicative of frequencies of selected features in objects, and a computer system implementing the method.
Date: November 21, 2001
Creator: Rorvig, Mark E. & Jeong, Kitai
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational Determinants of Political Involvement in Trade and Professional Membership Associations (open access)

Organizational Determinants of Political Involvement in Trade and Professional Membership Associations

Article studying the elements that underlie political action strategies and tactics of trade and professional associations.
Date: November 7, 2019
Creator: Dicke, Lisa A.; Saitgalina, Marina & Birungi, Patricia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library