A Study of State Library Agencies' Information Technology Standards Policies and Practices (open access)

A Study of State Library Agencies' Information Technology Standards Policies and Practices

This report discusses standards in state library agencies. Little is known about state library agencies' policies for standards adoption and use. This study, undertaken in 1998, attempted to bridge the gap of information and understanding about the current situation of state library agencies' use, opportunities and issues related to technical standards.
Date: August 15, 2000
Creator: Moen, William E. & Shobowale, Gloria C.
Object Type: Report
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.
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

Dataset for discussion of naming systems, Part III

Shekarnong Sankhil explains traditional naming practices. This system is based on birth order.
Date: August 27, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Students Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perspectives of Libraries, Students and Faculty (open access)

Students Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perspectives of Libraries, Students and Faculty

Data management plan for the grant, "Students Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perspectives of Libraries, Students and Faculty." The University of North Texas will conduct an 18-month planning project to examine the current perspectives of community college librarians, faculty, and students regarding data literacy; identify the data literacy competencies needed for community college students; and develop data literacy action plans for community college libraries to assist community college librarians in assessing their capability and creating a road map to incorporate data literacy into their existing literacy programs. The findings of this project will identify the role and position of community college libraries in facilitating and enhancing the development of the data literacy competencies of students.
Date: 2022-08-01/2024-01-31
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun
Object Type: Text
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
Does Providing a Personalized Educational Game Based on Personality Matter? A Case Study (open access)

Does Providing a Personalized Educational Game Based on Personality Matter? A Case Study

This article presents an educational game which models learner's personality, specifically introvert/extrovert dimension, to serve as a personalized game learning environment. The findings of this study can be used by educators and game designers to adopt and develop personalized game learning environments based on learner's personality.
Date: August 19, 2019
Creator: Kinshuk; Tlili, Ahmed; Denden, Mouna; Essalmi, Fathi; Jemni, Mohamed; Chen, Nian-Shing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict (open access)

Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict

This book chapter provides an overview of teams, complex adaptive systems, conflict stages, and conflict models, while also presenting adaptive leadership as a style that offers organizations with the capabilities of reacting to changing environments quickly.
Date: August 1, 2018
Creator: Turner, John; Baker, Rose M. & Morris, Mark
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention (open access)

Classifying Semantic Clause Types: Modeling Context and Genre Characteristics with Recurrent Neural Networks and Attention

This paper introduces an attention mechanism that pinpoints relevant context not only for the current instance, but also for the larger context.
Date: August 2017
Creator: Becker, Maria; Staniek, Michael; Nastase, Vivi; Palmer, Alexis & Frank, Anette
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Semantic Clause Types and Modality as Features for Argument Analysis (open access)

Semantic Clause Types and Modality as Features for Argument Analysis

This article investigates the role of semantic clause types and modality in argumentative texts.
Date: August 17, 2017
Creator: Becker, Maria; Palmer, Alexis & Frank, Anette
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Personal narrative about helping Japanese soldiers (open access)

Transcription: Personal narrative about helping Japanese soldiers

Transcription of Sumshot Khular recounting her mother Sankhil Thampol Khularnu 's story of giving eggs to some Japanese soldiers who showed up in her village of Charlong during World War II.
Date: August 28, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion about Zangskari traditions and the winds of change captions transcript

Discussion about Zangskari traditions and the winds of change

In this enlightening discussion, Prof. Tadeusz Slupski of Poland, a visitor to Zangskar since November 1977, discusses the cultural shifts over the decades with a couple from Sani village. Slupski narrates the socio-cultural transformations he witnessed since his initial visit and invites the couple to expand on these changes from their firsthand experiences. They discuss the nuances of the architectural evolution of Zangskari houses, delving into traditional heating and lighting methods, recalling cherished olden poems, songs, and dances—emphasizing the "chham" (Chham) dance and costumes, and reminisce about traditional weddings marked by horseback marriage processions. Dr. Jamphel Sheyan, Assistant Professor of English at GMDC, skillfully interprets the conversation, bridging Zangskari and English. Recorded in Sani village, Ladakh Union Territory, India.
Date: August 7, 2022
Creator: Dolma, Yangchan
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion about Zangskari royal legacy and societal shifts captions transcript

Discussion about Zangskari royal legacy and societal shifts

In this insightful discussion, Gyafo (King) Phuntsok Dawa, the King of Padum, answers the questions raised on Zangskar and its history by Dr. Tadeusz Slupski, a regular visitor to Zangskar since 1977. Gyafo Dawa delves into the rich heritage of his lineage and the Zangskari royal family. He recounts the pivotal moment in June 1948 when Zangskar faced invasion from Pakistani forces, prompting his father and the entire family, accompanied by Kushok Bakula Rimpoche, to seek refuge in Himachal Pradesh. Dr. Slupski further inquires about the demographics of Zangskar, leading the discussion towards the significant societal and cultural changes Zangskar has experienced over the past four and a half decades, since he first visited. Recorded in Old Padum village, Ladakh Union Territory, India.
Date: August 9, 2022
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization Decisions (open access)

Examining MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization Decisions

Article examining MARC records as artifacts that reflect metadata utilization decisions.
Date: August 7, 2006
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insights Into the Factors Influencing Student Motivation in Augmented Reality Learning Experiences in Vocational Education and Training (open access)

Insights Into the Factors Influencing Student Motivation in Augmented Reality Learning Experiences in Vocational Education and Training

This article attempts to identify some of the components that positively affect student motivation in mobile augmented reality (AR) learning experiences to contribute to the design and development of motivational AR learning experiences for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) level of education.
Date: August 21, 2018
Creator: Bacca, Jorge; Baldiris, Silvia; Fabregat, Ramon & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review (open access)

Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review

This article seeks to support researchers by concisely reviewing key statistical assumptions associated with substantive statistical tests across the general linear model. Additionally, the article reviews techniques to check for statistical assumptions and identifies remedies and problems if data do not meet the necessary assumptions.
Date: August 28, 2012
Creator: Nimon, Kim F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Conversation about establishing a literacy school (open access)

Transcription: Conversation about establishing a literacy school

This is a conversation between Rawang speakers discussing establishing a school for teaching Rawang in their area. The classes happen on Sundays or in the evenings. They worry that students feel discouraged when they don't know parts of their language, especially older learners, so they would like to start classes when students are younger. They make a plan to train more teachers and create more books.
Date: August 2008
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of Juniper Tree of Boyo (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of Juniper Tree of Boyo

Transcription and translation of the recording of Muneem Dawar, a speaker of Hunza Burushaski, reciting the story of juniper tree of Boyo ("Boyuwe Gal").
Date: August 5, 2011
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age: Outcomes from EDUsummIT 2017 (open access)

Rethinking Learning in a Digital Age: Outcomes from EDUsummIT 2017

This article presents the scholarly articles that were written after the 2017 EDUsummIT, based on discussions within the Thematic Working Groups during the meeting itself. The article also present the Call to Action that was consolidated from the closing statements of the nine EDUsummIT 2017 Thematic Working Groups.
Date: August 3, 2018
Creator: Voogt, Joke & Knezek, Gerald
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations (open access)

Illegal is not a Noun: Linguistic Form for Detection of Pejorative Nominalizations

This paper focuses on a particular type of abusive language, targeting expressions in which typically neutral adjectives take on pejorative meaning when used as nouns.
Date: August 2017
Creator: Palmer, Alexis; Robinson, Melissa & Phillips, Kristy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film (open access)

Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film

This article discusses automating the semiotic analysis of film, including visual representation, search and retrieval, and ways of seeing.
Date: August 7, 2009
Creator: Anderson, Richard L. & O'Connor, Brian Clark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Skichengani Kitap (open access)

Skichengani Kitap

Book of 30 lessons on the Garo alphabet, handwriting, and arithmetic. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1991
Creator: Busolin, B.; Thomas, Phadar K. A. & Joseph, Umbavu Varghese
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares

Transcription of a retelling of Sraa nao le svang nao ktaang ktloo ki paomin (the Story of the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares), as told by Belun Sankhil. One of several retellings of a traditional story where the rich hunter switches his quarry, a bird, with that of his poor hunting partner, absurdly claiming his trap up high in a tree had caught a deer. In this version it is the fox who parodies the rich hunter's reasoning by claiming he burnt his feet during a flood.
Date: August 27, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 68 (open access)

Akha notebook 68

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about marriage, spirits, thieves, and villages splitting.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library