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Status of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Archives (open access)

Status of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Archives

This paper explores the role of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) archives in preserving the history and cultural heritage of these institutions and investigates the factors that contribute to the disparities observed in the availability of digital collections and the staffing of archivists across HBCUs in the United States. Data was collected from 102 HBCU websites and the National Center for Education Statistics, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and ordinary linear regression. The findings revealed notable disparities in the staffing of archivists and the presence of digital archive collections, with geography, enrollment, and endowment emerging as potentially significant factors. The study highlights the importance of understanding key factors in the availability of digital archive collections and the staffing of archivists at HBCUs.
Date: April 5, 2023
Creator: Bussey, Jennifer; Lund, Brady, 1994- & Roeschley, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives (open access)

Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives

This white paper comprehensively describes the insights that emerged from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives. Key topics include a typology of language archives, the perspectives of stakeholder groups, and improving access to language archives.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Access to Web Archives through Innovative Analysis of PDF Content (open access)

Improving Access to Web Archives through Innovative Analysis of PDF Content

This paper discusses improving access to web archives through innovative analysis of PDF content. The paper discusses the overall workflow and describes the tools used to extract document features. Findings suggest opportunities for the development of retrieval tools that will provide new ways of selecting content and building collections from large Web archives.
Date: April 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observation Guide: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Observation Guide: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is an observation guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: May 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is the hierarchical coding scheme used for qualitative analysis of interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: June 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interview Guide for Archive Managers: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Interview Guide for Archive Managers: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: May 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Programmatic Extraction of ‘Documents’ from Web Archives: Identifying Document Characteristics from Content Selector Interviews (open access)

Programmatic Extraction of ‘Documents’ from Web Archives: Identifying Document Characteristics from Content Selector Interviews

White paper documenting the results of interviews with professionals who manage collections of state or federal documents, and institutional repositories. These interviews gathered information about collection policies and characteristics of born-digital publications that are incorporated into these bodies of materials, to inform future machine learning algorithms.
Date: 2020
Creator: Fox, Nathaniel T.; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classifying the End-of-Term Archive (open access)

Classifying the End-of-Term Archive

This paper discusses the Classification of the End-of-Term Archive project.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interview Guide for End Users: Researchers, Depositors, Language Communities: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Interview Guide for End Users: Researchers, Depositors, Language Communities: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: May 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix To What We Can Learn From Each Other: International Archival Pedagogy Conversations and Collaborations (open access)

Appendix To What We Can Learn From Each Other: International Archival Pedagogy Conversations and Collaborations

This is an appendix to “What We Can Learn From Each Other: International Archival Pedagogy Conversations and Collaborations,” a manuscript that was inspired by a collaborative workshop at the 2023 institute of the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI). The lively workshop discussion revealed both how much the participants all had in common, and how much they had to learn from each other. Their discussion highlighted how disconnected and geographically siloed archival education programs still continue to be, despite opportunities for international collaboration between archival educators. With this issue in mind, workshop participants decided to continue their conversations past the AERI 2023 meeting as part of an investigation of current pedagogical practices, teaching needs, and future goals of archival educators in a variety of settings. They met on Zoom and then corresponded asynchronously for a discussion of the structures of their archival education programs, their students’ needs, their teaching goals, how they respond to challenges in their virtual and physical classrooms, and how they can leverage this and future collaborations to benefit both their students and the archival education field as a whole. Using the transcripts of their conversations as a data set, they then used a grounded theory analysis …
Date: 2023
Creator: Christina-Lamb, Caitlin; Roeschley, Ana; Saurombe, Nampombe; Mojapelo, Makutla; Lee, Jamie A.; Chaterera-Zambuko, Forget et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Curation of the End-of-Term Web Archive (open access)

Curation of the End-of-Term Web Archive

Paper for the 2011 IS&T Archiving Conference. This paper discusses the Classification of the End-of-Term Archive research project at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2011
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.; Ko, Lauren & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Moving the End of Term Web Archive to the Cloud to Encourage Research Use and Reuse (open access)

Moving the End of Term Web Archive to the Cloud to Encourage Research Use and Reuse

Short paper presented at the 2022 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Virtual Workshop, in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), on June 24, 2022. The paper discusses the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive project and process of organizing, staging, processing, and moving these collections into the Amazon cloud.
Date: June 24, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alam, Sawood
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Resources: Lessons from the Texas History Portal (open access)

The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Resources: Lessons from the Texas History Portal

Paper for the 2005 IS&T Archiving Conference. This article discusses the issues of compliance and interoperability in integrating heterogeneous digital resources and lessons from the Texas History Portal.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preserving Access to Government Websites: Development and Practice in the CyberCemetery (open access)

Preserving Access to Government Websites: Development and Practice in the CyberCemetery

This paper discusses the development and practice in the CyberCemetery. In the late 1990's, online U.S. government information was appearing and disappearing at a rapid pace. In 1999, the University of North Texas Libraries (UNT) formed a partnership with the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) to address this issue by archiving electronic government websites. This archive, known as the CyberCemetery, provides permanent public access to the websites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions. This partnership between UNT and GPO has expanded to include the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This paper covers the CyberCemetery's development and the process of identifying, capturing, and publishing content in the archive.
Date: May 26, 2008
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arab Gulf Counties: A case study of Alqabas Archive (open access)

Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arab Gulf Counties: A case study of Alqabas Archive

The goal of this study is to explore how information is currently organized in digital cultural heritage collections in Arabian Gulf countries. it focused on Alqabas – a Kuwaiti institution with a strong reputation of early adopter of digital archiving and developer of major digital collections in Arab Gulf counties, accumulated experience in knowledge management. The mixed-methods study combined semi-structured interview of the Alqabas archive manager and in-depth content analysis of a sample of metadata records that represent items in Alqabas digital collections for accuracy, completeness, consistency, use of knowledge organization systems. The study reveals high metadata quality overall but lack of consistency for many metadata fields, explained in part by the absence of metadata creation guidelines and professional training for metadata creators. This indicates potential barriers to metadata interoperability in an aggregated environment for future projects similar to DPLA or Europeana.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive (open access)

Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive

This paper discusses open source components, standard conformance, and UCD as it relates to The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Opening Up the Urban Archive: Digital Outreach to Urban Studies Scholars (open access)

Opening Up the Urban Archive: Digital Outreach to Urban Studies Scholars

Paper for the 2015 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Symposium. This paper discusses opening up the urban archive and digital outreach to urban studies scholars.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis & Janda, Jaime
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parsing Records from TSLAC ARIS Database into XML: Notes (Work Area B.2 - B.4) (open access)

Parsing Records from TSLAC ARIS Database into XML: Notes (Work Area B.2 - B.4)

Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. The report describes parsing records from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) Archives and Information Services (ARIS) database into XML files, creating XML schemas, and mapping elements to simple Dublin core schema.
Date: December 15, 2006
Creator: Plumer, Danielle; Phillips, Mark Edward & Polyakov, Serhiy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unremarkable on the Face of It (open access)

Unremarkable on the Face of It

This paper was part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative 'Click! Photography Changes Everything'. This paper discusses family photographs and how sometimes seemingly unremarkable snapshots can be truly remarkable.
Date: December 3, 2009
Creator: O'Connor, Brian Clark
System: The UNT Digital Library
STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks (open access)

STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks

This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Levow, Gina-Anne; Bender, Emily M.; Littell, Patrick; Howell, Kristen; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Crowgey, Joshua et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building Specialized Collections from Web Archiving (open access)

Building Specialized Collections from Web Archiving

Short paper presented at Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse (AIDR). This short paper presents work on creating datasets of high-value publications and documents from web archives that can be used for machine learning research to help classify these large collections of data.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Caragea, Cornelia & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sgt. Gary Schutza (open access)

Sgt. Gary Schutza

Autobiographical paper of Sgt. Gary Schutza's military service. He briefly describes his family and childhood, his decision to join the United States Marine Corps, and his experiences serving during the Korean War.
Date: ~2011
Creator: Schutza, Gary
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Myth of the Besieged Fortress: Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s - 1930s (open access)

The Myth of the Besieged Fortress: Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s - 1930s

This work discusses Soviet mass perception from the 1920s to the 1930s. This work was supported by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, grant No. 805/1998, and by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. The work has also greatly benefitted from the discussion at the workshops held by the Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at CREES, University of Toronto.
Date: 2002
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
System: The UNT Digital Library