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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
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Content Analysis in Evaluating Metadata for the U.S. Government Information Locator Service (GILS): Results from an Exploratory Study (open access)

The Role of Content Analysis in Evaluating Metadata for the U.S. Government Information Locator Service (GILS): Results from an Exploratory Study

This paper discusses application of qualitative and quantitative content analysis techniques to assess metadata records from 42 Federal agencies' implementation of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS).
Date: 1997
Creator: Moen, William E.; Stewart, Erin L. & McClure, Charles R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Z39.50 Interoperability: Z39.50 Profiles and Testbeds for Library Applications (open access)

Improving Z39.50 Interoperability: Z39.50 Profiles and Testbeds for Library Applications

An operating assumption for the networked environment is that many different information systems need to interoperate for users to successfully discover and retrieve distributed resources. Meaningful interoperability is often elusive. In the library community, the Z39.50 standard protocol (ISO 23950/ANSI/NISO Z39.50) for information retrieval promised seamless and transparent networked access to library resources. Too often, the reality has not lived up to the promise. This paper discusses two efforts that offer solution paths to Z39.50 interoperability.
Date: August 2001
Creator: Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
CIMI's Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed: Search and Retrieval of Distributed Cultural Heritage Information (open access)

CIMI's Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed: Search and Retrieval of Distributed Cultural Heritage Information

This paper discusses the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)'s international effort to provide distributed search and retrieval of cultural heritage information. A primary aspect of CIMI's work utilizes ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995, and American National Standard protocol for information retrieval. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently approved Z39.50 as ISO 23950. CIMI chose Z39.50 to enable uniform access to existing and emerging digital collections and the vast repositories of cultural heritage information resources. These resources include a variety of physical and digital objects--physical artifacts and digital derivatives of those artifacts, descriptive records designed for collection management, bibliographic records, full-text documents, online tools such as thesauri and authoritative lists of artists' names, and more. CIMI's application Z39.50 in the networked cultural heritage information environment is breaking new ground in distributed and integrated access to textual and non-textual digital collections.
Date: January 2, 1998
Creator: Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Semantics of Semantic Interoperability: A Two-Dimensional Approach for Investigating Issues of Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries (open access)

The Semantics of Semantic Interoperability: A Two-Dimensional Approach for Investigating Issues of Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries

Paper discussing a two-dimensional approach for investigating issues of semantic interoperability in digital libraries.
Date: 2007
Creator: Chung, EunKyung & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Metadata Utilization: An Analysis of MARC Content Designation Use (open access)

Assessing Metadata Utilization: An Analysis of MARC Content Designation Use

This paper discusses metadata utilization. This paper reports results of an analysis of a large sample of MARC 21 bibliographic records.
Date: 2003
Creator: Moen, William E. & Benardino, Penelope
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Access: A New Paradigm for Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Access (open access)

Open Access: A New Paradigm for Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Access

The notion of open access to scholarly information is not new. In recent years, however, it has taken on prominence within the broader context of scholarly work, communication, and publishing. This brief paper intends to highlight and clarify key aspects of open access to assist UNTs initial discussions of the utility of open access for UNT researchers and scholars.
Date: April 28, 2009
Creator: Moen, William E. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Descriptive Metadata Changes in the UNT Libraries' Collections: A Case Study (open access)

How Descriptive Metadata Changes in the UNT Libraries' Collections: A Case Study

Paper describing the results of initial research to evaluate general information about how records change in a digital library, using the UNT digital collections as a sample set. The analysis looked at several key concepts including the number of records that have been edited, the number of edits per record, the number of editors per record, the amount of change in file size and in completeness (i.e., values in required fields), and changes in access to digital objects.
Date: 2014
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Shakeri, Shadi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification (open access)

Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification

This paper presents a method for automatic topic identification using an encyclopedic graph derived from Wikipedia. The system is found to exceed the performance of previously proposed machine learning algorithms for topic identification, with an annotation consistency comparable to human annotations.
Date: May 2009
Creator: Coursey, Kino High; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploration of Metadata Change in a Digital Repository (open access)

Exploration of Metadata Change in a Digital Repository

Paper for the 2015 International iConference. This paper discusses a study exploring metadata change in a digital repository.
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Kizhakkethil, Priya
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT at TREC 2004: Question Answering Combining Multiple Evidences (open access)

UNT at TREC 2004: Question Answering Combining Multiple Evidences

This paper discusses Question Answering (QA) combining multiple evidences.
Date: 2004
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Ge, He; Wu, Yan & Jiang, Shikun
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access? (open access)

What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access?

This paper accompanies a poster presented at the 2010 Library Research Seminar V Conference. This paper and the accompanying poster discuss what transaction log data tells us about collection-level subject access.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data (open access)

High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data

This two-year project will advance understanding of the workflow and processes best able to increase access to and use of digitized biological collection metadata within the stakeholder communities comprised of biologists, natural history museum collections managers, biodiversity standards groups, and the library and information science community.
Date: 2008
Creator: Moen, William E.; Best, Jason H. & Neill, Amanda K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections (open access)

A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections

This paper presents a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Free-Text Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis (open access)

Free-Text Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis

This paper reports results of the study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital cultural heritage aggregations in the United States and Europe.
Date: 2011
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access (open access)

Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access

This paper reports an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA).
Date: October 2008
Creator: Chen, Jiangping & Li, Fei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata (open access)

Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata

This paper discusses assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata. This paper reports on a content analysis of collection records in an aggregation of cultural heritage collections.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Palmer, Carole L.; Jackson, Amy S. & Han, Myung-Ja
System: The UNT Digital Library
The DataRes Research Project on Data Management (open access)

The DataRes Research Project on Data Management

Paper for the 2012 International iConference. This presentation discusses data management and the DataRes Project.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Moen, William E. & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Innovative Partnership to Recruit and Educate Biomedical Information Professionals (open access)

An Innovative Partnership to Recruit and Educate Biomedical Information Professionals

Article on an innovative partnership to recruit and educate biomedical information professionals.
Date: 2005
Creator: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-; Hannigan, Gale; Philbrick, Jodi; Pan, Xuequn (Della) & O'Neill, Marty
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Access and Scholarly Communication: The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship (open access)

Open Access and Scholarly Communication: The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship

Paper for the 2011 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses open access and scholarly communication and the current landscape, future direction, and the influence on global scholarship.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hastings, Samantha Kelly; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; McLean, Austin & Rorissa, Abebe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Keyword Extraction for Learning Object Repositories (open access)

Automatic Keyword Extraction for Learning Object Repositories

This article discusses automatic keyword extraction for learning object repositories.
Date: October 2008
Creator: Coursey, Kino High; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Extensible Approach to Interoperability Testing: The Use of Special Diagnostic Records in the Context of Z39.50 and Online Library Catalogs (open access)

An Extensible Approach to Interoperability Testing: The Use of Special Diagnostic Records in the Context of Z39.50 and Online Library Catalogs

Paper discussing the use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs.
Date: 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.; Hammer, Sebastian; Taylor, Mike; Thomale, Jason & Yoon, JungWon
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Issue of Granularity: Decomposing Redesigned Courses on Different Levels of Details (open access)

An Issue of Granularity: Decomposing Redesigned Courses on Different Levels of Details

This paper discusses a project to redesign courses on different levels of details. The Texas Course Redesign Project initiated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) aims to develop and distribute instructional resources to improve student learning outcomes and lower the costs of higher education.
Date: 2008
Creator: Li, Fei; Polyakov, Serhiy; Barnes, Svetlana; Moen, William E. & Xu, Hong
System: The UNT Digital Library