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UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

This presentation provides an overview for the University of North Texas Libraries' digital collections: The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and the Gateway to Oklahoma History.
Date: August 14, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborative Preservation Scaled to Serve the Texas Press Association

This presentation provides an overview of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and its partnership with the Texas Press Association archive.
Date: August 16, 2015
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Panoramic image of clock tower at Downtown Denton Transit Center

Photograph of clock tower at the Downtown Denton Transit Center. 360-degree panoramic photograph.
Date: August 28, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri

Photograph of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. The photograph was taken from across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois at Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park on top of the Mississippi River Overlook. The photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.
Date: August 19, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Interior View of Digital Projects Unit]

Photograph of Digital Projects Unit in Willis Library, at the University of North Texas campus. A woman and man are both sitting in front of computers, with their backs facing the camera. The woman is identified as Ann Howington, and the man is identified as Jeremy Moore. A projection screen is hanging on the wall to the right. In the background, there is a book cart and refrigerator with a photograph of a white ferret on it. A man identified as Brandon Fredericks is sitting in front of a computer in a room in the far background.
Date: August 14, 2008
Creator: Jones, Jerrell
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Computer Hardware in Digital Projects Unit]

Photograph of computer hardware in Digital Project Unit at Willis Library, on University of North Texas campus. A computer with two ViewSonic monitors is set up in the foreground. A book is open in front of the keyboard; an Epson scanner is sitting to the right of the computer. In the background, there is a man identified as Andres Cardonas sitting behind two computer monitors; a woman identified as Sarah Lynn Fisher is standing to the left.
Date: August 14, 2008
Creator: Jones, Jerrell
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sarah Lynn Fisher and Andres Cardones in Digital Projects Unit]

Photograph of Sarah Lynn Fisher and Andres Cardona in Digital Projects Unit at Willis Library on University of North Texas campus. Fisher is sitting at a computer with two monitors; she has a UNT yearbook open on the desk in front of her and is processing scans in Photoshop. Other yearbooks are stacked on her left. In the background Cardona is sitting in front of a computer. Behind him, there are stacks of books on a cart and other computers.
Date: August 14, 2008
Creator: Jones, Jerrell
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sarah Lynn Fisher and Andres Cardones in Digital Projects Unit]

Photograph of Sarah Lynn Fisher and Andres Cardona in the Digital Projects Unit at Willis Library on University of North Texas campus. Fisher is sitting at a computer with two monitors. An open UNT yearbook is sitting in front of the keyboard, and another is to her left. In the background, Cardona is sitting in front of a computer. Behind him, there are stacks of books on a cart, and other computers.
Date: August 14, 2008
Creator: Jones, Jerrell
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory OCR Text Dataset

Dataset of OCR text from N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory. This dataset includes volumes covering the years 1910 to 1922. In all there are 25 volumes comprised of 16,669 pages of text.
Date: August 22, 2018
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

What Can We Learn From a Statewide Collection of Newspaper PDFs?

Presentation for the 2016 IFLA News Media Satellite Meeting. This presentation examines the statewide collection of newspaper PDFs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program at UNT to support preservation and access planning at UNT Libraries.
Date: August 11, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit

This presentation provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process.
Date: August 15, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Automatic Classification of Name Strings in Library Metadata

Presentation for the 2017 Code4Lib South Central Conference. This presentation describes how a machine learning model can help with classifying name types in library metadata.
Date: August 11, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Faculty Analysis of Scholarly Works

This presentation provides a breakdown of current faculty contributions to the UNT Scholarly Works collection by department, tenure-status, and involvement with non-traditional works such as Honors College collaborations and patents.
Date: August 5, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machine Learning for Name Type Classification in Library Metadata (open access)

Machine Learning for Name Type Classification in Library Metadata

This paper describes a study to investigate automatic type classification using machine learning approaches.
Date: August 9, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leveraging Existing Bibliographic Metadata to Improve Automatic Document Identification in Web Archives (open access)

Leveraging Existing Bibliographic Metadata to Improve Automatic Document Identification in Web Archives

Data management plan for the grant, "Leveraging Existing Bibliographic Metadata to Improve Automatic Document Identification in Web Archives."
Date: 2022-08-01/2024-07-31
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods [VRA 2023]

Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Visual Resources Association Conference held in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: August 26, 2023
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Kellum, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library