Formulating a Scalable Approach to Patron-Requested Digitization in Archives (open access)

Formulating a Scalable Approach to Patron-Requested Digitization in Archives

This article examines how archives were forced to rethink their modes of providing access to physical collections because of the coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19). Whereas difficult copyright questions raised by reproducing items could previously be skirted by requiring researchers to work with materials in person, the long-term closure of reading rooms and decrease in long-distance travel mean that archives need a workflow for handling user digitization requests that is scalable and requires consulting only easily identifiable information and, assuming full reproduction is off the table, reproducing items in a collection under 17 U.S.C. § 108 or through a strategy of rapid risk assessment. There is a challenge in creating a policy that will work across different formats and genres of archival materials, so this article offers some suggestions for how to think about these parameters according to US copyright law and calls for a committee of experts to work out a model policy that could serve remote users of archival collections even after the COVID-19 crisis has passed.
Date: June 1, 2021
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S. & Judkins, Julie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman

Presentation on the author's interviews with three scholars of Bodish languages about their experiences, materials, and preservation plans and their reflections on language archives, particularly in regards to accessibility and usability for pedagogy. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Hildebrandt, Kristine
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman captions transcript

Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman

Video recording of a presentation on the author's interviews with three scholars of Bodish languages about their experiences, materials, and preservation plans and their reflections on language archives, particularly in regards to accessibility and usability for pedagogy. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Hildebrandt, Kristine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians Through Oral Histories (open access)

Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians Through Oral Histories

Data management plan for the grant, "Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians Through Oral Histories." The University of North Texas (UNT) Department of Information Science, partnering with the UNT Oral History Program, will host a series of forums to identify best practices and strategies to respond to challenges around building, implementing, preserving, and accessing community oral history projects. The project team will convene librarians, archivists, oral history practitioners, public historians, community-based memory workers, and others working in oral history to identify good practices, share challenges and lessons learned, and prepare an actionable roadmap for building, implementing, preserving, and sustaining community oral history projects.
Date: 2022-08-01/2023-07-31
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Moye, J. Todd & Roeschley, Ana
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leveraging Existing Bibliographic Metadata to Improve Automatic Document Identification in Web Archives (open access)

Leveraging Existing Bibliographic Metadata to Improve Automatic Document Identification in Web Archives

Data management plan for the grant, "Leveraging Existing Bibliographic Metadata to Improve Automatic Document Identification in Web Archives."
Date: 2022-08-01/2024-07-31
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive and Datasets in the Cloud

Presentation discussing the End of Term Web Archive project and progress of moving EOT datasets to the AWS S3 cloud.
Date: September 1, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alam, Sawood
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advancing Resources for Cultural Heritage, Inclusion, and Visibility for ALL Communities - Minority Serving Institutions (open access)

Advancing Resources for Cultural Heritage, Inclusion, and Visibility for ALL Communities - Minority Serving Institutions

Data management plan for the grant, "Advancing Resources for Cultural Heritage, Inclusion, and Visibility for ALL Communities - Minority Serving Institutions."
Date: 2024-09-01/2025-08-31
Creator: Lund, Brady, 1994-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource for South Asian Languages 5

Presentation slides for the introduction of the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 5th Annual Planning Meeting which focused on increasing engagement with CoRSAL through social media.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
CoRSAL 5th Annual Planning Meeting captions transcript

CoRSAL 5th Annual Planning Meeting

Video recording of Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 5th Annual Planning Meeting which focused on increasing engagement with CoRSAL through social media.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection Digitization Project Phase III (open access)

Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection Digitization Project Phase III

Data management plan for the TSLAC TexTreasures Grant for the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection Digitization Project Phase III. This project will allow for the addition of 3,000 historical Texas images to the Portal to Texas History. The images selected for inclusion will focus on the work of Byrd Williams III and Byrd Williams IV, with an emphasis on unique and notable people and places in north Texas between the years 1930-2010.
Date: 2021-09-01/2022-08-31
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Computational Resource for South Asian Languages Metadata Infrastructure to Support Social Media Interactions

Presentation exploring the technical perspective of displaying CoRSAL content on social media.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Webinar 1: Oral History and Communities captions transcript

Webinar 1: Oral History and Communities

Video recording of the first webinar from the Oral History Forum. The theme of the webinar explores how community identity, history, activism, and experiences are represented through oral history.
Date: February 1, 2023
Creator: Cain, Adrienne; Piedra, Benji de la & Lee, Jamie A.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digitize and Preserve Recordings of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (open access)

Digitize and Preserve Recordings of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters

Data management plan for the National Archives grant for Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects, "Digitize and Preserve Recordings of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters." This project will digitize 1,804 hours of audio-visual material from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters and transcribe 250 hours of speeches, lectures and literary readings drawn from African, African American and Caribbean arts and letters recorded between 1977 and 2013.
Date: 2021-09-01/2023-08-31
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Making Audio/Visual Digital Collections Content Accessible for All Texans (open access)

Making Audio/Visual Digital Collections Content Accessible for All Texans

Data management plan for the grant "Making Audio/Visual Digital Collections Content Accessible for All Texans." Project to improve audio/visual (A/V) content accessibility available through The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries. The project addresses the needs of Deaf and Blind users who often lack fundamental access for many A/V materials in digital repositories while also providing benefit to abled users and those with other special needs through efforts to transcribe, translate, describe, interpret, and chapter both research-oriented and primary-source A/V content.
Date: 2021-09-01/2022-08-31
Creator: Hicks, William
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Curating materials on ICSTLL languages- The case of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh captions transcript

Curating materials on ICSTLL languages- The case of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

Video recording of a presentation on four areas of materials in need of archiving and return to the communities in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Morey, Stephen & Post, Mark W.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archiving Community Work captions transcript

Archiving Community Work

Video presentation on archiving community work in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Post, Mark W.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archiving Community Work

Presentation on archiving community work in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Post, Mark W.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Records of Refuge: Supporting Refugee Communities' Archival Needs (open access)

Records of Refuge: Supporting Refugee Communities' Archival Needs

Data management plan for the grant, "Records of Refuge: Supporting Refugee Communities' Archival Needs."
Date: 2023-08-01/2026-07-31
Creator: Roeschley, Ana
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 77, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 2023 (open access)

Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 77, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 2023

Monthly newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: September 1, 2023
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 73, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 1, 2020 (open access)

Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 73, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Monthly newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: April 1, 2020
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 35, Pages 4701-4906, September 1, 2023 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 35, Pages 4701-4906, September 1, 2023

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: September 1, 2023
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 2020 (open access)

The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Whitewright, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Owen, Sarah Beth
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
CAREER: Shape Memory Polymers as Biomaterial (open access)

CAREER: Shape Memory Polymers as Biomaterial

Data management plan for the grant, "CAREER: Shape Memory Polymers as Biomaterial." This CAREER projectaimsto elucidate the underlying mechanism of the plasticization-induced shape memory effect of thiol-enebased polymers. The model application for this material will be a heat shrink tubing that can shrink at bodily conditions (37° C and simulated body fluids) and can be used to seal colonic anastomosis. The specific three aims are to (1) Systematically investigate the effect of crosslink-density and chain extender length on theplasticization-induced shape memory effect of thiol-enebased polymers. Mechanical and thermomechanical measurements inside simulated body fluids will be used to assess shape memory properties and structure-property relationships. (2) Understand the relationship between material thickness, degree of shape-programming, and radial recovery forces of tube-shaped SMPs to determine optimal design parameters for sufficient shape recovery using the heat shrink tube model. (3) Demonstrate the functionality of a biomedical heat shrink tube that utilizes the plasticization-induced shape recovery through an ex vivo colon anastomosis model and quantify mechanical and sealing properties.
Date: 2023-02-01/2028-01-31
Creator: Ecker, Melanie
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience on Accelerated Deep Learning through A Hardware-Software Collaborative Approach (open access)

Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience on Accelerated Deep Learning through A Hardware-Software Collaborative Approach

Data management plan for the grant, "REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience on Accelerated Deep Learning through A Hardware-Software Collaborative Approach." This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site Program at the University of North Texas will enhance the knowledge and research skills of a diverse cohort of undergraduate students through empowering, innovative, and interdisciplinary research experiences in developing Deep Learning applications and systems. The program aims to 1) expose undergraduate students to real-world and cutting-edge research focused on accelerated deep learning through combined hardware and software development; 2) encourage more undergraduate students to continue their academic careers and seek graduate degrees in computer science, computer engineering, and related disciplines; 3) develop research skills and improve communication and collaborative skills in undergraduate students.
Date: 2021-03-01/2024-02-29
Creator: Zhao, Hui & Albert, Mark
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library