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.

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.

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.

Recent years have seen the development of quite a few measures of wisdom (e.g. Ardelt (2003); Glück (2017); Staudinger and Pasupathi (2003); Sternberg (1998); Webster (2003)). With a focus on information professionals working in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector, this study is unique in the way it translated the quantitative measures used in previous study into a qualitative instrument that can allow wisdom aspects to be explored through interviews. Thus the purpose of this research was to investigate the key characteristics of wisdom for professionals working in the GLAM sector.

This paper explores the history of the University of North Texas' marching band, the Green Brigade Marching Band, including it's early iterations in 1911 to achievements in 2021.

White paper discussing the results of a public survey regarding keyword assignment for digital library photographs and providing initial analysis regarding the responses and next steps for the project.

Paper uses an existing Wise Action Model to identify the key characteristics of wisdom and create a new multidimensional qualitative measure of wisdom.

Paper discussing a course outline for a course in Mexican American Folklore. The course outline is followed by a bibliography of Mexican American Folklore that is divided into sections corresponding to the course outline.

Paper summarizes research on the use of big data for calculating tourism indicators with the goal of enabling tourism knowledge producers and users to envision alternative, more cost-effective methods of generating such indicators.

Paper explores the effects of the domination of North American ideas and English as a dominant language of publication in the context of the internationalization of higher education.

Paper explores the behavior of buyers in Saudi Arabia who are using Instagram to purchase from businesses that use Instagram as their only platform for commerce.

Document covering the direction of the expansion of public access and recreational use for the former Golf Course Area (GCA) at Bastrop State Park (Bastrop SP).