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

Towards Building a Collection of Web Archiving Research Articles

Paper for the 2014 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This paper discusses building a collection of web archiving research articles.
Date: November 3, 2014
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda & Caragea, Cornelia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation Through the Use of a Virtual Lab (open access)

Teaching Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation Through the Use of a Virtual Lab

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses teaching tools, applications, and infrastructure for digital curation through the use of a virtual lab.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Helsing, Joseph; Lewis, Paulette & Warga, Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Curation in the Academic Library Job Market (open access)

Digital Curation in the Academic Library Job Market

Paper for the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This paper discusses digital curation in the academic library job market.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Warga, Edward & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
iCAMP: Building Digital Information Curation Curriculum (open access)

iCAMP: Building Digital Information Curation Curriculum

Paper for the 2012 International iConference. This paper discusses the iCAMP (Information: Curate, Archive, Manage, and Preserve) project and building digital information curation curriculum.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Moen, William E.; Kim, Jeonghyun; Warga, Edward; Wakefield, Jenny S. & Halbert, Martin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instructional Design Strategies for Teaching Technological Courses Online (open access)

Instructional Design Strategies for Teaching Technological Courses Online

This paper describes different instructional design strategies for teaching computer technological courses online.
Date: September 28, 2011
Creator: Chen, Jiangping & Knudson, Ryan
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
Beyond Size and Search: Building Contextual Mass in Digital Aggregations for Scholarly Use (open access)

Beyond Size and Search: Building Contextual Mass in Digital Aggregations for Scholarly Use

This paper discusses building contextual mass in digital aggregations for scholarly use.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Palmer, Carole L.; Zavalina, Oksana & Fenlon, Katrina
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
UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images (open access)

UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images

This paper presents the results of the team of the University of North Texas in the Wikipedia image retrieval track of Image-CLEF-2010.
Date: September 2010
Creator: Ruiz, Miguel E.; Chen, Jiangping; Pasupathy, Karthikeyan; Chin, Pok & Knudson, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extracting and Parsing of Herbarium Specimen Data: Exploring the Use of the Dublin Core Application Profile Framework (open access)

Extracting and Parsing of Herbarium Specimen Data: Exploring the Use of the Dublin Core Application Profile Framework

Paper for the 2010 International iConference. This paper discusses extraction and parsing of herbarium specimen data to make the critical information available in digital form.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Moen, William E.; Huang, Jane Q.; McCotter, Melody; Neill, Amanda K. & Best, Jason H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unremarkable on the Face of It (open access)

Unremarkable on the Face of It

This paper was part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative 'Click! Photography Changes Everything'. This paper discusses family photographs and how sometimes seemingly unremarkable snapshots can be truly remarkable.
Date: December 3, 2009
Creator: O'Connor, Brian Clark
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
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
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
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
A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content (open access)

A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content

This paper describes the design and development of a learning object repository for a new statewide higher education initiative.
Date: 2008
Creator: Barnes, Svetlana; Li, Fei; Polyakov, Serhiy & 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
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
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
Learning from Artifacts: Metadata Utilization Analysis (open access)

Learning from Artifacts: Metadata Utilization Analysis

This paper describes the MARC Content Designation Utilization Project, which is examining a very large set of metadata records as artifacts of the library cataloging enterprise. This is the first large-scale examination of descriptive metadata utilization. Presents an overview of study activities and suggests the study's significance to the broader use of metadata in digital libraries.
Date: 2006
Creator: Moen, William E.; Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-; Eklund, Amy; Polyakov, Serhiy & Snyder, Gregory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chinese Information Retrieval Using Lemur: NTCIR-5 CIR Experiments at UNT (open access)

Chinese Information Retrieval Using Lemur: NTCIR-5 CIR Experiments at UNT

This paper discusses Chinese information retrieval using Lemur, a freely available information retrieval toolkit.
Date: December 2005
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Li, Rowena & Li, Fei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chinese QA and CLQA: NTCIR-5 QA Experiments at UNT (open access)

Chinese QA and CLQA: NTCIR-5 QA Experiments at UNT

This paper describes our participation in the NTCIR-5 CLQA task.
Date: December 2005
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Li, Rowena; Yu, Ping; Ge, He; Chin, Pok; Li, Fei et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library