End User Interviews: Summary Report (open access)

End User Interviews: Summary Report

This report summarizes the results of the interviews with end users for the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. The project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library (CDL), the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University (NYU). The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build, store, and manage collections of web-published materials.
Date: April 17, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: UNT's Congressional Research Service Reports Archive

This presentation describes the University of North Texas' Congressional Research Services (CRS) Report Archive project. The idea is to capture all CRS reports made available on the web and archive them in one searchable and browsable spot.
Date: October 27, 2006
Creator: Glenn, Valerie & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: University of North Texas - Denton - August 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: University of North Texas - Denton - August 2005

This report discusses a focus group that was part of the Web-at-Risk project. The report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: February 14, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: Federal Depository Library Conference - Washington, D.C. - October, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: Federal Depository Library Conference - Washington, D.C. - October, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: March 28, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collection Plan Guidelines for Project Curators (open access)

Collection Plan Guidelines for Project Curators

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. These policy and planning documents typically guide collection management within libraries and archives. Some familiar concepts and practices from collection development for non-digital materials easily transfer to collection development for web-based materials while some new concepts and unfamiliar practices are introduced. To effectively manage web collections, it is good practice to either create new policies and plans or modify existing collection policies and plans.
Date: May 9, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: New York University - New York City - September, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: New York University - New York City - September, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: March 24, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Needs Assessment Survey Report: Abbreviated Version (open access)

Needs Assessment Survey Report: Abbreviated Version

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Needs Assessment Toolkit created for the Web-at-Risk project describes the project's needs assessment activities and includes data collection tools, which are designated to identify the needs and requirements of curators, web-content producers, and end users with regard to the Web Archive Service. Additionally, information gathered by some of the data collection tools will help to identify curators' requirements for the web crawler and its crawl analyzer tool, which will be developed as part of the project. Each of the assessment activities described in the Needs Assessment Toolkit was designated to follow a collection development framework for web archives. This report contains a data analysis of the survey results. Results from focus group discussions and interviews with content providers and end users are presented in separate reports.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: Hsieh, Inga K. & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary Report of the Needs Assessment (open access)

Summary Report of the Needs Assessment

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project, one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress.
Date: June 18, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content Provider Interviews: Summary Report (open access)

Content Provider Interviews: Summary Report

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report summarizes the results of the interviews with content providers. Section 2 identifies the interview methodology. Section 3 describes the results and Section 4 discusses the major findings.
Date: April 10, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collection Planning Guidelines (open access)

Collection Planning Guidelines

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is developing a Web Archiving Service (WAS) that will enable the project's partner institutions to act as archive agencies that will assist the project's curators in building and managing archived collections of web-published materials.
Date: May 31, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, August 31, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, August 31, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: March 21, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings Pertaining to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (open access)

Findings Pertaining to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections

This paper discusses the findings pertaining to the framework for building good digital collections. This paper is part of the three-year interim project report for the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project, summarizing major findings October 2002 through September 2005.
Date: October 2006
Creator: Cole, Timothy W.; Jackson, Amy S.; Palmer, Carole L.; Shreeves, Sarah L.; Twidale, Michael B. & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Information for Parents and Teachers (open access)

Government Information for Parents and Teachers

Article on the expansion of access to government web sites to include Internet-based educational resources for children, teachers, and parents.
Date: 2006
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lone Star Ink: Exploring Texas through Historic Newspapers, 1880-1910: Grant Materials (open access)

Lone Star Ink: Exploring Texas through Historic Newspapers, 1880-1910: Grant Materials

These grant materials were prepared for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to provide access to historic American Newspapers. The Library of Congress serves as the technical adviser for the NDNP. NEH designated this proposal a “We the People” grant, and it was provided by NEH as an example grant in the following year’s grant round. The award funded digitization of Texas historical newspapers. For the grant, UNT served as the lead institution with partners at the Center for American History at the University of Texas, and Texas Tech University. This proposal was funded for $397,552.
Date: October 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of the Tools and Software to Support Interoperability (open access)

Review of the Tools and Software to Support Interoperability

Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report reviews the tools and software to support interoperability between digital repositories and the Library of Texas federated search. This review will be used for providing recommendations for best practices and workflows for installing software and tools onto Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) and selected databases that support search interoperability.
Date: July 15, 2006
Creator: Polyakov, Serhiy; Moen, William E. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

At Risk: Capturing and Preserving Web Resources

This presentation discusses the Web-at-Risk project and the issues related to capturing and preserving web resources. It introduces collection development issues, organization and metadata issues, and the findings that support the needs for a web archiving service.
Date: June 12, 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Web Collection Plan Overview: Considerations for Project Curators (open access)

Web Collection Plan Overview: Considerations for Project Curators

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The guidelines in this document are intended to assist the Web-at-Risk's project's curators in developing plans for the collections they will create using the project's Web Archiving Service (WAS). A web collection typically consists of a group of web-sites related by a common subject, theme, or event. Librarians will notice that some familiar concepts and practices from collection planning for print materials easily transfer to collection planning for web-published materials while some new concepts and unfamiliar practices are introduced. To effectively manage collections of web-published materials, it is good practice to either create new plans or modify existing collection plans to address these concepts and practices.
Date: August 24, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing the ICT Infrastructure for Africa: Overview of Barriers to Harnessing the Full Power of the Internet (open access)

Developing the ICT Infrastructure for Africa: Overview of Barriers to Harnessing the Full Power of the Internet

Article on developing the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for Africa and an overview of the barriers to harnessing the full power of the internet.
Date: 2006
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rediscovering "Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend" (open access)

Rediscovering "Toscanini: The Man Behind the Legend"

This article is based on the authors' presentation at the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Conference in Austin, Texas, April 2005 and discusses Arturo Toscanini.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: McKnight, Mark, 1951- & Cleveland, Susannah, 1972-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Teaching With The Portal to Texas History

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how the collections and resources for educators are used to enhance learning and as teaching aids.
Date: October 13, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The UNTL Metadata Guidelines: [Version-2, 2006] (open access)

The UNTL Metadata Guidelines: [Version-2, 2006]

Report on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries metadata guidelines. This report discusses describing digital objects in a consistent way that ensures long-term preservation and that provides for optimum searching, discovery and retrieval of information by users of our heterogeneous digital collections.
Date: 2006
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Belden, Dreanna; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Phillips, Mark Edward & Reis, Nancy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
User Searches in IMLS DCC Collection Registry: Transaction Log Analysis (open access)

User Searches in IMLS DCC Collection Registry: Transaction Log Analysis

This technical report discusses user searches in IMLS DCC collection registry.
Date: 2006
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Report
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