Extracting "Documents" from Web Archives

This presentation describes the process of using machine-learning algorithms to identify and extract publications from web archives.
Date: December 13, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archives: 2008, 2012, 2016 ...

This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive. The EOT Web Archive program is a multi-institution effort that aims to comprehensively capture and save U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. Beginning in 2008, the EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008 and 2012. The collaborative program is currently preparing for the 2016 electoral season.
Date: April 5, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections

This presentation describes a comparison of two web archives of the US Federal web domain collected at the end of the Bush administration (2008) and the end of the first Obama administration (2012). This exploratory analysis tracks changes in media types, TLDs, domains, and subdomains.
Date: June 22, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Chudnov, Dan & Jacobs, James R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections (open access)

Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections

This abstract describes the presentation "Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections," comparing two web archives of the US Federal web domain collected at the end of the Bush administration (2008) and the end of the first Obama administration (2012). This exploratory analysis tracks changes in media types, TLDs, domains, and subdomains.
Date: June 22, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Chudnov, Dan & Jacobs, James R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Harvesting Democracy: Archiving Federal Government Web Content at End of Term

This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Presidential web archive. This overview will help law librarians understand the history and scope of the "End of Term Web Archive" project so they can help select the right sites to harvest, make profitable use of the preserved materials, and more fully appreciate the urgent need for preserving web-based government information.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Bailey, Jefferson; Grotke, Abigail & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

URL Nomination Tool Demo

This presentation demonstrates how to use the URL Nomination Tool for the End of Term Presidential Web Archive.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods

Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Kellum, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods [VRA 2023]

Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Visual Resources Association Conference held in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: August 26, 2023
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Kellum, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collecting and Preserving the Federal Web: End of Term Archive – 2008, 2012, 2016

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management as part of the panel "Big Data and Government Information." This presentation describes the work of the End of Term Archive to preserve the federal web.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Saving the Byrds: Reshaping Digitization Workflows for Photographic Materials

Presentation detailing the customized workflow established for the creation of the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection in the UNT Digital Library, as well as the unique problems and solutions that arose throughout the course of the project. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: Ekberg, Samantha
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

IIIF and the UNT Digital Collections

Presentation for the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Archives Community Group virtual meeting held on May 12, 2020. The presentation is a demonstration of the IIIF by the University of North Texas' digital collections.
Date: May 12, 2020
Creator: Hicks, William & McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

This presentation provides an overview for the University of North Texas Libraries' digital collections: The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and the Gateway to Oklahoma History.
Date: August 14, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Peek in the Portal: The University of North Texas The Portal to Texas History

This presentation provides a brief look into the digital collections added to The University of North Texas’ The Portal to Texas History in the last year. Examples include projects completed through our Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant program for 2014, The Barbara Jordan Archives Collection, and the Texas Historical Commission’s Historic Building Negatives Collection among others.
Date: April 14, 2016
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers (open access)

Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers

This paper discusses the use of digital newspaper pages through the Library of Congress database Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers as a case study to demonstrate the value of developing tools to locate non-textual content.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing the DPLA Texas Service Hub, v.2. A collaboration to build the next generation aggregator for Texas

Presentation sharing the goals and mission of a pilot between the University of North Texas and the Texas Digital Library to develop a prototype of a new service hub for Texas to provide metadata from collections across the state to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Park, Kristi L.; Steans, Ryan; Halbert, Martin; Hiott, Judith; Woodward, Nick & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at The University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at The University of North Texas Libraries

This article describes the methods and lessons learned from conducting the Rescuing Texas History mini-grant program, which serves as a model for sustainable large-scale digitization initiatives.
Date: July 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Mangum, Jacob & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data Readiness and the Digital Public Library of America

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the work of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Working Group, resources for preparing data, and the experiences of the Houston Public Library.
Date: April 2018
Creator: Hiott, Judith; Park, Kristi L.; Tarver, Hannah & Duran, Albert
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

After the Harvest: Preservation, Access, and Researcher Services for the 2016 End of Term Archive

This presentation discusses the End of Term Archive and methods for identifying and selecting in-scope content (including using registries, indices, and crowdsourcing URL nominations ["seeds"] through a web application called the URL Nomination Tool), new strategies for capturing web content (including crawling, browser rendering, and social media tools), access models including both an online portal as well as research datasets for use in computational analysis, and preservation data replication between partners using new export APIs and experimental tools developed as part of the IMLS-funded WASAPI project.
Date: December 13, 2016
Creator: Bailey, Jefferson; Grotke, Abigail & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Becoming a Trustworthy Digital Repository: Some Thoughts

This presentation discuss the process that the UNT Libraries used to complete a TRAC self-audit published in Fall 2015
Date: July 18, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Access Points for Local History Preservation by Listening to Users (open access)

Improving Access Points for Local History Preservation by Listening to Users

This paper discusses the role user experience (UX) research can play in representing and preserving local history and cultural identity, and it concludes with pragmatic advice about how UX can inform metadata design in future projects.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digitization at the Portal to Texas History

The presentation introduces the process of digitizing material into the Portal to Texas History. It was presented at the 2020 Texas Association of Museums Conference. The history of the repository, digitization standards, and workflows are discussed along with some lessons learned.
Date: May 13, 2020
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Mangum, Jake
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating, Curating, and Preserving Digital Collections: Preserving the Digital Heritage

Presented at the 2018 Ke Au Hou Pacific Librarianship Conference. This presentation describes a pre-conference workshop that provides attendees with a better understanding of the landscape related to digital preservation and access among cultural heritage institutions, key components in the ongoing process of preserving digital information, and the building blocks of digital preservation systems.
Date: May 1, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit (open access)

Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit

This paper provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process. This paper also contains findings specifically related to the digital newspaper and news video content.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive--2008, 2012, 2016

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, including updates and challenges from the 2016 harvest.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library