A Partnership Born of Urgency and Civic Responsibility: Preserving Access to Government Websites Through the CyberCemetery

This presentation discusses preserving access to government websites through the CyberCemetery. It includes information about what the CyberCemetery is, its purpose, the development, archival process, technical details, users by country, types of content, and using the CyberCemetery.
Date: April 22, 2010
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Partnership Born of Urgency and Civic Responsibility: Preserving Access to Government Websites Through the CyberCemetery (open access)

A Partnership Born of Urgency and Civic Responsibility: Preserving Access to Government Websites Through the CyberCemetery

Handout accompanying a presentation for the 2010 AGA Regional Professional Development Conference. The handout and presentation discuss the CyberCemetery, its purpose and development, technical details, users by country, and types of content.
Date: April 22, 2010
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Keeping it Real: A Comprehensive and Transparent Evaluation of Electronic Resources

Presentation slides from a pre-conference workshop at the 2014 Charleston Annual Library Conference. The workshop discusses a comprehensive and transparent evaluation of electronic resources.
Date: November 5, 2014
Creator: Harker, Karen; Enoch, Todd & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving (open access)

Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving

This paper presents the results of a survey of quality assurance (QA) practices within the field of web archiving. To understand current QA practices, the authors surveyed 54 institutions engaged in web archiving, which included national libraries, colleges and universities, and museums and art libraries.
Date: August 19, 2014
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda; Phillips, Mark Edward & Ko, Lauren
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience (open access)

A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Article discussing metadata approaches to preservation of digital resources and the experiences of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hastings, Samantha Kelly & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Students on both sides of the desk: Effective student training of exceptional service at a combined services desk (open access)

Students on both sides of the desk: Effective student training of exceptional service at a combined services desk

Contributed paper for the 2014 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference. This paper discusses effective student training of exceptional service at a combined services desk.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Campbell, Doug; Venner, Mary Ann & Whitmer, Susan
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digitization of Government Information (open access)

Digitization of Government Information

Report submitted by an American Libraries Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) ad hoc committee charged to "create a report advising GODORT on the best practices and procedures in the digital library field and advise GODORT on the most effective organizational structure for support of the government information community in pursuing digital library initiatives" (p. 2).
Date: June 14, 2002
Creator: American Library Association. Government Documents Round Table. Ad Hoc Committee on Digitization Of Government Information.
Object Type: Report
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
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
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Dallas Genealogical Society: Focus Group 2 Discussion, July 2008 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Dallas Genealogical Society: Focus Group 2 Discussion, July 2008

This report presents findings from the March 30, 2008 focus group discussion with members of the Dallas Genealogical Society. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in December 2007 for a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the Libraries' Portal to Texas history. The IOGENE project involves genealogists in the design process beginning with the initial assessment of their requirements and continuing through usability testing of the redesigned Portal interface.
Date: July 23, 2008
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative

This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' initiatives to ensure long-term access to various digital resources.
Date: 2002
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Presentation
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
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
[Review] Letting Go Of The Words: Writing Web Content That Works (open access)

[Review] Letting Go Of The Words: Writing Web Content That Works

This article reviews the book "Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works," by Janice (Ginny) Redish.
Date: 2008
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Storage of Electronic Files of Federal Agencies That Have Ceased Operation: A Partnership for Permanent Access (open access)

Storage of Electronic Files of Federal Agencies That Have Ceased Operation: A Partnership for Permanent Access

Article on the storage of electronic files of Federal Agencies that have ceased operation and a partnership for permanent access.
Date: August 7, 2000
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative (open access)

Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative

This article offers a comparison of strategies and policies for building distributed digital preservation infrastructure.
Date: October 15, 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer (open access)

Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document is a report on the status of a two-phase transfer test being carried out between the MetaArchive Cooperative and Chronopolis. These tests aim to demonstrate a proof-of-concept that the MetaArchive network may use Chronopolis's data grid preservation service as an exit strategy in the event that either MetaArchive or LOCKSS becomes unsustainable in the future.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Final Project Report, February 2010 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Final Project Report, February 2010

This report discusses a research project conducted by the UNT Libraries. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two-year study to redesign the interface to The Portal to Texas History, a digital library program at the UNT Libraries. This report opens with background information for the project, describes the project's methods and working model, guides the reader through the project's three phases and associated feedback from the review process, and presents the revised model for application development. The report closes with measures of the project's success as well as reflections on the experience gained and its value for future digital library application development projects.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers (open access)

Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers

Article discussing archiving web-published materials and a needs assessment of librarians, researchers, and content providers.
Date: 2008
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reference book indexes reviewed (open access)

Reference book indexes reviewed

Article on a study of the frequency and nature of remarks about indexes found in reviews of reference books.
Date: March 2010
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using Students in Cataloging (open access)

Using Students in Cataloging

Presentation notes presented as part of a panel, "Utilizing Student Employees in the Cataloging Workflow," at the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG) Annual Convention
Date: February 24, 2015
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reengineering The Portal to Texas History (open access)

Reengineering The Portal to Texas History

This book chapter reports on a case study on the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system.
Date: 2013
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.; Phillips, Mark Edward; Hicks, William; Weng, Neena & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (open access)

Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries

This book is a collection of essays on sustaining digital libraries. The essays report on early findings from pioneers who have worked to establish digital libraries, not merely as experimental projects, but as ongoing services and collections intended to be sustained over time in ways consistent with the long-held practices of print-based libraries. Particularly during this period of extreme technological transition, it is imperative that programs across the nation and indeed the world - actively share their innovations, experiences, and techniques in order to begin cultivating new standard practices. The collective sentiment of the field is that we must begin to transition from a punctuated, project-based mode of advancing innovative information services to an ongoing programmatic mode of sustaining digital libraries for the long haul.
Date: April 2008
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Battle, Mary
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Functional Requirements for The Portal to Texas History (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Functional Requirements for The Portal to Texas History

This report includes the results of an initial assessment of genealogists' requirements for the redesign of the Portal's interface. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the libraries' Portal to Texas History. The IOGENE project involves genealogists in the design process beginning with the initial assessment of their requirements and continuing through usability testing of the redesigned Portal interface.
Date: July 24, 2008
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library