Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGENE Project (open access)

Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGENE Project

This paper discusses applying user-centered design principles to redesign The Portal to Texas History, as part of the IOGENE project at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Partnership Born of Urgency and Civic Responsibility: Preserving Access to Government Websites Through the CyberCemetery

This presentation discusses preserving access to government websites through the CyberCemetery. It includes information about what the CyberCemetery is, its purpose, the development, archival process, technical details, users by country, types of content, and using the CyberCemetery.
Date: April 22, 2010
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discover America's Cultural Heritage Collections on the Web

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library collections. It also discusses the invisible internet, other Texas digital collections, other large digital collections, major digital collections in other states, subscription databases, and gives strategies for searching all of these databases.
Date: February 25, 2010
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2010 (open access)

Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2010

This document is a brief organizational history for The Portal to Texas History for 2010. This document was used for grant submissions to state or federal funding agencies, or private foundations. This document reflects on strategic directions for the program, as well as the number of collaborative partners for the Portal, and the number of historic documents in the digital library.
Date: 2010
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indexing Open Access Law Journals... or Maybe Not (open access)

Indexing Open Access Law Journals... or Maybe Not

Article discussing research on the indexing of open access law journals, and the effects of a lack of indexing.
Date: 2010
Creator: Hart, Edward T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Partnership Born of Urgency and Civic Responsibility: Preserving Access to Government Websites Through the CyberCemetery (open access)

A Partnership Born of Urgency and Civic Responsibility: Preserving Access to Government Websites Through the CyberCemetery

Handout accompanying a presentation for the 2010 AGA Regional Professional Development Conference. The handout and presentation discuss the CyberCemetery, its purpose and development, technical details, users by country, and types of content.
Date: April 22, 2010
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions (open access)

Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions

This book chapter discusses digital collection preservation. The authors provide a philosophical base for cultural memory organizations' need to participate in distributed digital preservation solutions as community-owned and community-led initiatives. This chapter will be useful for all readers, particularly those with questions about the value of collaborative engagement in the digital arena for cultural memory organizations.
Date: 2010
Creator: Halbert, Martin & Skinner, Katherine
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Evaluation of Project Outcome: User Satisfaction Report, February 2010 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Evaluation of Project Outcome: User Satisfaction Report, February 2010

This report presents information about the IOGENE project. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in December 2007 for a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the Libraries' Portal to Texas History. This document reports information about the survey questionnaire, the respondents, the research findings, and includes the positive overall outcome regarding user satisfaction with the work conducted in this project.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Usability Tests: Summary Report, February 2010 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Usability Tests: Summary Report, February 2010

This is a summary report of the findings of usability tests. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in December 2007 for a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the Libraries' Portal to Texas History and to redesign the interface to the Portal to meet those requirements.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Final Project Report, February 2010 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Final Project Report, February 2010

This report discusses a research project conducted by the UNT Libraries. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two-year study to redesign the interface to The Portal to Texas History, a digital library program at the UNT Libraries. This report opens with background information for the project, describes the project's methods and working model, guides the reader through the project's three phases and associated feedback from the review process, and presents the revised model for application development. The report closes with measures of the project's success as well as reflections on the experience gained and its value for future digital library application development projects.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library