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Identifying Challenges for Information Organization in Language Archives: Preliminary Findings

Conference paper elucidates the issues facing language archive managers and users through two steps: content analysis of information organization in language archives, and semi-structured interviews with language archive managers and users. Primary challenges identified include lacking institutional support and a range of factors which impact authority control in language archives. This version is the author's accepted manuscript.
Date: March 19, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library

Descriptive richness of free-text metadata: a comparative analysis of three language archives

This article analyzes item‐level metadata in three language archives by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.
Date: October 22, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Excavating theory in teacher evaluation: Implementing evaluation frameworks as Wengerian boundary objects (open access)

Excavating theory in teacher evaluation: Implementing evaluation frameworks as Wengerian boundary objects

This article explores the theory and practice between two existing conceptual frameworks: 1) social learning theory and 2) teacher evaluation systems.
Date: April 13, 2020
Creator: King, Kelley M. & Paufler, Noelle A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Artist interviews and revisionist art history: women of African descent, critical practice and methods of rewriting dominant narratives (open access)

Artist interviews and revisionist art history: women of African descent, critical practice and methods of rewriting dominant narratives

Article reflecting on over ten years of conducting and collecting interviews with and by women artists of African descent in a variety of formats (e.g. narrative arts writing, academic research and documentary film/video) to note the specific ways that artists’ interviews help to rewrite art-historical narratives.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Cross, Lauren E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Information Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages (open access)

Health Information Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages

This article builds on health information behavior literature and participatory research models with indigenous communities to develop strategies for future work with indigenous communities of speakers of endangered languages, proposing a participatory methodology for future work with communities of endangered language speakers related to health using ethnographic interviews and focus groups.
Date: February 2, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Classification in Web Archiving Collections (open access)

Dynamic Classification in Web Archiving Collections

Article explores dynamic fusion models to find, on the fly, the model or combination of models that performs best on a variety of document types. The experimental results show that the approach that fuses different models outperforms individual models and other ensemble methods on three datasets.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Patel, Krutarth & Caragea, Cornelia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advances in academic video game collections (open access)

Advances in academic video game collections

This article discusses how the UNT Media Library developed a video game collection to support student retention, student recreation, and classroom instruction. The article also will explain how the Library successfully met challenges involved in collection development, related technology, space needs, and the challenges it sees ahead.
Date: August 29, 2020
Creator: Robson, Diane; Sassen, Catherine & Rodriguez, Allyson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structural equation modeling of the associations between amygdala activation, personality, and internalizing, externalizing symptoms of psychopathology (open access)

Structural equation modeling of the associations between amygdala activation, personality, and internalizing, externalizing symptoms of psychopathology

Article examining how amygdala activation to facial expressions was linked with self-report of personality traits and clinical interviews of internalizing and externalizing symptoms of psychopathology. Structural equation modeling results revealed direct associations of amygdala activation with personality trait expression, as well as indirect associations (though personality) with symptoms of psychopathology.
Date: July 14, 2020
Creator: Neumann, Craig S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Skill-Building in Online Metadata Instruction: Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata (open access)

Skill-Building in Online Metadata Instruction: Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata

Paper addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Burke, Mary
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metaphysical Beliefs and Experiences Among Physician Trainees: An Exploratory Study (open access)

Metaphysical Beliefs and Experiences Among Physician Trainees: An Exploratory Study

Article documenting the results of surveying 126 physician trainees regarding their beliefs about metaphysical experiences (e.g., near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, shared-death experiences, and after-death communication) and experiences shared with them by patients. It also discusses results about the trainees' attitudes toward transcendental explanations and caring for end-of-life patients.
Date: Autumn 2020
Creator: Schmit, Jessica M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sleep duration is associated with vitamin D deficiency in older women living in Macao, China: A pilot cross-sectional study (open access)

Sleep duration is associated with vitamin D deficiency in older women living in Macao, China: A pilot cross-sectional study

Article investigating whether sleep duration was associated with vitamin D status in a population from Macao, China, and whether sleep duration modified the association between MetS and vitamin D deficiency.
Date: March 4, 2020
Creator: Mpofu, Elias; Liu, Xiaoying; Ke, Liang; Ho, Jacky; Abboud, Myriam; Brennan-Speranza, Tara C. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in Chinese Adolescents (open access)

Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in Chinese Adolescents

Article examining the psychometric properties of the self-report version of Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in a sample of community adolescents in mainland China. Findings provide preliminary evidence for the four-factor structure of the PSCD and support for the utility of the self-report PSCD for measuring psychopathic traits and CD in Chinese adolescents.
Date: August 20, 2020
Creator: Luo, Jie; Wang, Meng-Cheng; Neumann, Craig S.; Hare, Robert D. & Salekin, Randall T.
System: The UNT Digital Library