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Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Presentation describing the ongoing CoRSAL (Computational Resource for South Asian Languages) project, including background on the UNT Digital Library infrastructure and metadata schema, specific fields that have presented issues or areas of discussion for language data records (language, creator/contributor, and relation), and final conclusions about the collaboration so far.
Date: September 30, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Statistical Indications of Notational Style in Composers' Additions of Performance Marks in Solo Piano Scores

This presentation provides an overview of how statistical analyses may be used to examine patterns of performance marks and notational styles, using nineteenth-century piano sonatas.
Date: April 22, 2016
Creator: Buchanan, J. Paul
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing a Theory in Academic Research: A Review of Experts' Advice (open access)

Developing a Theory in Academic Research: A Review of Experts' Advice

This article provides a literature review on definitions and characteristics of theory development.
Date: September 9, 2015
Creator: Dankasa, Jacob
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Seeking Behavior of Clergy: The Research, The Results, and the Future (open access)

Information Seeking Behavior of Clergy: The Research, The Results, and the Future

This article reviews the information seeking behaviors of clergy.
Date: June 29, 2015
Creator: Dankasa, Jacob
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seeking Information in Circles: The Application of Chatman's Life in the Round Theory to the Information Small World of Catholic Clergy in Northern Nigeria (open access)

Seeking Information in Circles: The Application of Chatman's Life in the Round Theory to the Information Small World of Catholic Clergy in Northern Nigeria

This article explores Dr. Elfreda Chatman's concept of "small world" as applied to the information seeking behaviors of Catholic clergy in Northern Nigeria.
Date: February 22, 2016
Creator: Dankasa, Jacob
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining the Progression of Mobile Technologies and Their Applications to Learning Environment: Implications for M-Learning in Africa (open access)

Examining the Progression of Mobile Technologies and Their Applications to Learning Environment: Implications for M-Learning in Africa

This article provides a literature review regarding mobile technology used for mobile learning in Africa.
Date: June 19, 2014
Creator: Dankasa, Jacob
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

LEAP II Institute: Digital Curation and Lifecycle Management Workshop

This presentation contains a pre- and post-workshop surveys, with an overview of digital libraries, digital lifecycle management, and digital preservation.
Date: May 17, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating the University of North Texas' Digital Collections and Institutional Repository: An Exploratory Assessment of Stakeholder Perceptions and Use (open access)

Evaluating the University of North Texas' Digital Collections and Institutional Repository: An Exploratory Assessment of Stakeholder Perceptions and Use

This article discusses an exploratory assessment evaluating the University of North Texas' digital collections and institutional repository.
Date: September 8, 2015
Creator: Waugh, Laura; Hamner, Jesse; Klein, Janette & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Exploratory Analysis of Subject Metadata in the Digital Public Library of America (open access)

An Exploratory Analysis of Subject Metadata in the Digital Public Library of America

Paper describing an analysis of subject representation in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), an aggregate digital library containing more than 8 million item-level metadata records at the time of the study. The findings provide information about the minimum, maximum, and average number of subjects in records from different hubs and hub types, as well as the distribution of unique subject terms across the entire collection.
Date: 2015
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Phillips, Mark Edward; Zavalina, Oksana & Kizhakkethil, Priya
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Emerging Trends and Evolving Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications

Presentation for the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses emerging trends and evolving issues in open access and scholarly communication.
Date: April 27, 2015
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Helge, Kris; Tmava, Ahmet Meti & Priyanto, Ida Fajar
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management (open access)

Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management

Article defining ways that metadata records might change (addition, deletion, or modification) and describing a study to evaluate multiple versions of selected records in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections to observe the types and frequency of various changes.
Date: April 17, 2015
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploration of Metadata Change in a Digital Repository [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2015 International iConference. This presentation discusses a study on the exploration of metadata change in a digital repository.
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Kizhakkethil, Priya
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving [Dataset]

This dataset contains the results of a survey of quality assurance practices within the field of web archiving and its practitioners. To understand current QA practices, the authors surveyed institutions engaged in web archiving, which included national libraries, colleges and universities, and museums and art libraries. The survey was administered online. It includes the completed responses of 54 participants. The data has been anonymized for privacy reasons. This dataset was used in the "Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving" paper, available from the UNT Digital Library.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda; Phillips, Mark Edward & Ko, Lauren
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Copyright, Open Access, and Creative Commons

Presentation for a Tarrant County College faculty professional development event. This presentation discusses copyright, open access, and creative commons.
Date: January 14, 2015
Creator: Helge, Kris
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Change: Meeting the Evolving Requirements

Presentation for the 2014 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation discusses metadata changes and meeting the evolving requirements.
Date: November 26, 2014
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

What Makes a Good Web Archive?

Presentation for the 2014 Best Practices Exchange Annual Conference. This presentation discusses what makes a good web archive.
Date: November 19, 2014
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Dataset of Web Archiving Research Articles]

Datasets used in the presentation, "Towards Building a Collection of Web Archiving Research Articles." The files included here were used to conduct several Machine Learning classification experiments that result in a corpus of scholarly research articles on the topic of web archiving.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda & Caragea, Cornelia
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method for Generating Numerical Values Indicative of Frequencies of Selected Features in Objects, and a Computer System Implementing the Method (open access)

Method for Generating Numerical Values Indicative of Frequencies of Selected Features in Objects, and a Computer System Implementing the Method

Patent relating to methods for generating numerical values indicative of frequencies of selected features in objects, and a computer system implementing the method.
Date: November 21, 2001
Creator: Rorvig, Mark E. & Jeong, Kitai
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology (open access)

Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology

Article from the proceedings of the 1998 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. This article discusses modeling utilization of planned information technology.
Date: November 1998
Creator: Stettheimer, Timothy D. & Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library