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Creating The Nimitz Timeline

This presentation is about the creation of the Nimitz Family Photographs Collection. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2024 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
Date: April 10, 2024
Creator: Skinner, Tyler
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Day in the life of a Metadata Student: The Chronicles of Oklahoma

Presentation is about the day in the life of a metadata student working on the Chronicles of Oklahoma collection. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2024 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
Date: April 10, 2024
Creator: Bussey, Jennifer
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

What I Have learned In My Year of Feedback

This presentation is about the experience gained while working as a student feedback assistant. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2024 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
Date: April 10, 2024
Creator: Esparza, Daniel
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying Rasch Methodology to Examine and Enhance Precision of the Baby Care Questionnaire (open access)

Applying Rasch Methodology to Examine and Enhance Precision of the Baby Care Questionnaire

Article describes how the Baby Care Questionnaire (BCQ) is an established ordinal measure of parenting beliefs about infant care, which includes structure and attunement scales. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties and improve precision of the structure and attunement scales of the BCQ using Rasch methodology.
Date: January 12, 2024
Creator: Truong, Quoc Cuong; Gattis, Merideth; Barber, Carol Cornsweet; Middlemess, Wendy; Au, Terry & Medvedev, Oleg N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of computer science and computer engineering. This collection analysis was focused on the use, age, growth, and gaps of the material relevant to these programs.
Date: January 12, 2024
Creator: Harker, Karen; Byrne, Sephra & Irhamni
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
OA usage reporting: Understanding stakeholder needs and advancing trust through shared infrastructure (open access)

OA usage reporting: Understanding stakeholder needs and advancing trust through shared infrastructure

Article describes how the complexity of usage reporting for open access content continues to grow, particularly with content syndication to organizations such as ScienceDirect and ResearchGate, which deliver content across multiple platforms at an unprecedented scale. This paper brings together four different perspectives and walk through what is known, then start to unpack the questions for which they do not have answers.
Date: December 15, 2023
Creator: Tim, Lloyd; Miller, Tricia; Drummond, Christina & Kemp, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pareto Optimization of CNN Models via Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for Drainage Crossing Classification on Resource-Limited Devices (open access)

Pareto Optimization of CNN Models via Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for Drainage Crossing Classification on Resource-Limited Devices

Article describes how embedded devices, constrained by limited memory and processors, require deep learning models to be tailored to their specifications. This research explores customized model architectures for classifying drainage crossing images.
Date: November 12, 2023
Creator: Li, Yuke; Baik, Jiwon; Rahman, Md Marufi; Anagnostopoulos, Iraklis; Li, Ruopu & Shu, Tong
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting incident cardiovascular disease among African-American adults: A deep learning approach to evaluate social determinants of health in the Jackson heart study (open access)

Predicting incident cardiovascular disease among African-American adults: A deep learning approach to evaluate social determinants of health in the Jackson heart study

Article describes how the authors' study sought to leverage machine learning approaches to determine whether social determinants of health improve prediction of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD). Participants in the Jackson Heart study with no history of CVD at baseline were followed over a 10-year period to determine first CVD events.
Date: November 10, 2023
Creator: Morris, Matthew C.; Moradi, Hamidreza; Aslani, Maryam; Sims, Mario; Schlundt, David; Kouros, Chrystyna D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: University Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories (open access)

Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: University Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories

Conference paper examining the deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis.
Date: November 3, 2023
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis; Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Working Towards an Index of Music Printed in American Newspapers: 1900-1920

Presentation highlighting a project to create an index of music printed and shared via newspapers in the United States from 1900 to 1920. It also shares some results of the project so far. It was presented at the Texas Music Library Association's fall meeting held October 20-21, 2023 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 20, 2023
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using representational and abstract imagery to createregulatory fit effects (open access)

Using representational and abstract imagery to createregulatory fit effects

Article asserts that visual imagery is one of the most important methods of communicating with consumers, but scholars have generally neglected the role of different forms of visual imagery (representational and abstract). The authors demonstrate that prevention-focused versus promotion-focused mindsets guide the interpretation of meanings conveyed by representational versus abstract visual imagery as a nonverbal means to achieve regulatory fit.
Date: October 19, 2023
Creator: Naletelich, Kelly; Ketron, Seth; Spears, Nancy & Gelves, J. Alejandro
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
End of Term Web Archive Dataset: Longitudinal Web Archive of .GOV and .MIL Domains (open access)

End of Term Web Archive Dataset: Longitudinal Web Archive of .GOV and .MIL Domains

Article describes how the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive Dataset presents a longitudinal dataset of the US federal web which includes publicly available .gov and .mil domains, created during the 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections in the United States. The authors describe how based on the End of Term Web Archive, this dataset presents 461TB of WARC data and accompanying derivative files in WAT, WET, and CDX format.
Date: October 3, 2023
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Phillips, Kristy & Alam, Sawood
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shared metadata for data-centric materials science (open access)

Shared metadata for data-centric materials science

Article describes how the expansive production of data in materials science, their widespread sharing and repurposing requires educated support and stewardship. The authors mainly focus on computational materials-science data and propose a constructive approach for the FAIRification of the (meta)data related to ground-state and excited-states calculations, potential-energy sampling, and generalized workflows.
Date: September 14, 2023
Creator: Ghiringhelli, Luca M.; Baldauf, Carsten; Bereau, Tristan; Brockhauser, Sandor; Carbogno, Chistian; Chamanara, Javad et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content-Based Characterization of the End of Term Web Archive (open access)

Content-Based Characterization of the End of Term Web Archive

Article describes how, since 2008, the End of Term Web Archive has been gathering snapshots of the federal web, consisting of the publicly accessible .gov and .mil websites. This paper describes the decisions made in the creation of these derivatives, the technologies used, and introduces the WARC Metadata Sidecar, which presents a useful approach for creating and storing auxiliary metadata for web archives.
Date: September 2023
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Phillips, Kristy & Alam, Sawood
Object Type: Article
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
Interdisciplinary Studies Academic Program Review (open access)

Interdisciplinary Studies Academic Program Review

This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Interdisciplinary Studies-related resources and materials to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was generated as part of the UNT Libraries’ contributions to the university’s Academic Program Reviews, which are conducted by the Accreditation office in the Division of Planning. The UNT Libraries’ Collection Assessment Department evaluated collections’ ability to meet the curricular and research needs of the academic programs being reviewed. They assessed current needs based on course descriptions and research outputs, defined the scope of information needed based on this needs assessment, and evaluated the Libraries’ holdings in these subject areas against the usage, qualitative listings, and requests for materials from other libraries. Specific recommendations for collection development are provided based on the results of these analyses.
Date: July 28, 2023
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploration of Metadata Practices in Digital Collections of Archives with Arabian Language Materials (open access)

Exploration of Metadata Practices in Digital Collections of Archives with Arabian Language Materials

Article for a study aimed to develop understanding of the current state of metadata practices in digital collections of archival institutions in the Arabian Gulf region. It also explored perspectives (including attitudes and possible barriers) for development of large-scale regional portals that would facilitate discovery of Arab digital archives (including language collections) by aggregating metadata. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023.
Date: June 4, 2023
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Language Archiving Training: A Case Study of a Metadata Course in Library and Information Science Graduate Program, 2020 - 2023 (open access)

Language Archiving Training: A Case Study of a Metadata Course in Library and Information Science Graduate Program, 2020 - 2023

Article explores the training gap between the way these materials are organized and represented and the understanding of that data – and expectations towards the more functional ways of its organization and representation – by language preservation and revitalization researchers, and by members of language communities. Information resources collected by language archives have unique attributes of importance to their target user groups, and these attributes and their representation are not currently widely addressed by the formal training provided to information professionals. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023.<
Date: June 16, 2023
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Accessible History: Putting a Century of The Chronicles of Oklahoma Online

Presentation sharing the project workflows for digitizing back issues of The Chronicles of Oklahoma. It has been published since 1921, and in 2020, the Oklahoma Historical Society partnered with the UNT Digital Library to make the back issues freely available through The Gateway to Oklahoma History. It was presented at the 2023 NASIG Conference held May 22-25, 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Date: May 25, 2023
Creator: Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.; Scott, Megan E. & Carroll, Hannah
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

Decision Trees for Answering User Feedback

Presentation on how feedback is handled by the University of North Texas Digital Library, including the management system, staffing resources, and some historical data. It focuses on the creation of decision trees to guide staff members through answering different types of questions and requests. 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: Fisher, Sarah Lynn & Coates, Maci
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

Investigations Into Using Machine Learning Models to Automate the Sorting of Digitized Texas State Publications.

This poster highlighting the development of machine learning model to automate part of the process of digitizing and archiving documents from the Texas State Depository Program. This particular part of the process is the sorting of documents to facilitate metadata creation. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 16, 2023
Creator: Rikka, Praneeth & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access Publishing Requirements

Presentation exploring Open Access, federal mandates for public access to research data, and support services available from the UNT Libraries. It was presented as part of the Division of Research and Innovation's Research BREAKS webinar series.
Date: April 26, 2023
Creator: Martin, John Edward & Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library