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An Evaluation of the Federal Government's Implementation of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS): Final Report (open access)

An Evaluation of the Federal Government's Implementation of the Government Information Locator Service (GILS): Final Report

This document reports the results of the evaluation study commissioned in response to the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) Board's request for an assessment of GILS. The study began in September 1996, data collection ended in March 1997, and the final report was completed in June 1997. The goal of the study was to understand how: GILS serves various user groups, GILS improves public access to government information, agencies are progressing with their implementations, and GILS works as a tool for information resources management.
Date: June 30, 1997
Creator: Moen, William E. & McClure, Charles R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

DataRes Project Secondary Survey

Dataset from the DataRes Project. This dataset is the secondary survey on data management needs of researchers.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Stark, Shannon; Halbert, Martin & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

DataRes Project Primary Survey

Dataset from the DataRes Project. This dataset is the primary survey on data management needs of researchers.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Stark, Shannon; Halbert, Martin & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analysis of URL References in ETDs: A Case Study at the University of North Texas [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2013 International Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Symposium. The presentation gives an analysis of URL references in ETDs and a case study at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: September 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Reyes Ayala, Brenda
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Expert System Approach to the Evaluation of Hypertext Engineering : An Experiment with KnowledgePro and MaxThink's (open access)

An Expert System Approach to the Evaluation of Hypertext Engineering : An Experiment with KnowledgePro and MaxThink's

The purpose of this study is to create the prototype expert system, HEES, and to examine its usability and usefulness in evaluating hypertext software.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Pak, Min Sun
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
Object Type: Paper
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

Presentation discussing the use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs.
Date: June 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.; Hammer, Sebastian; Taylor, Mike; Thomale, Jason & Yoon, JungWon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access to UNT Faculty's Scholarly Publications

This presentation discusses open access policies at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include an introduction to open access, a discussion of open access policies, and implementation ideas for workflow and technology support.
Date: March 25, 2010
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Moen, William E. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Virtual Libraries: A Service-Based Approach for Virtual Libraries (open access)

Virtual Libraries: A Service-Based Approach for Virtual Libraries

Article discussing a service-based approach for virtual libraries and the provision of services to patrons and other users built upon the collective personnel, information, and technological resources that constitute the library.
Date: Autumn 2002
Creator: Moen, William E. & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
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.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Deep Web: Resource Discovery in the Library of Texas (open access)

The Deep Web: Resource Discovery in the Library of Texas

Article discussing the deep web and the new resource discovery service of the statewide virtual Library of Texas (LOT).
Date: 2004
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
No Longer Under Our Control: The Nature and Role of Standards in the 21st Century Library (open access)

No Longer Under Our Control: The Nature and Role of Standards in the 21st Century Library

This lecture script examines the nature and role of standards for the emerging 21st century library. Given the dynamic character of the networked environment, when are standards appropriate and how can they be developed in a manner consistent with the volatility of information technologies and changing library services? What are the roles and responsibilities of standards developing organizations, technology vendors, content creators, and librarians for standards? Do local practices of libraries threaten standards-based resource sharing and resource access technologies? Can local needs be balanced with broader library community responsibilities, and how do standards affect this balance? The speaker's assumption is that adherence to standards has never been more critical, yet his implementation experience with Z39.50 and MARC suggests that the commitment to national and international standards by librarians, technology vendors, and content creators are often an example of good intentions rather than actual practice. This standards disconnect threatens the emerging 21st century library's ability to deliver fundamental services in appropriate ways to their users.
Date: December 3, 2003
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Needs Assessment Survey Report (open access)

Needs Assessment Survey Report

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. The project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library (CDL), the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University (NYU). The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build collections of web-published materials. The content of the collections for this project will be largely from US federal and state government agencies, but will also include political policy documents, campaign literature, and information surrounding political movements and labor unions. This report includes the methods, results, discussion, and appendices related to the Web-at-Risk project.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: Hsieh, Inga K. & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Needs Assessment Survey Report: Abbreviated Version (open access)

Needs Assessment Survey Report: Abbreviated Version

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Needs Assessment Toolkit created for the Web-at-Risk project describes the project's needs assessment activities and includes data collection tools, which are designated to identify the needs and requirements of curators, web-content producers, and end users with regard to the Web Archive Service. Additionally, information gathered by some of the data collection tools will help to identify curators' requirements for the web crawler and its crawl analyzer tool, which will be developed as part of the project. Each of the assessment activities described in the Needs Assessment Toolkit was designated to follow a collection development framework for web archives. This report contains a data analysis of the survey results. Results from focus group discussions and interviews with content providers and end users are presented in separate reports.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: Hsieh, Inga K. & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Examining MARC Records as Artifacts Reflecting Metadata Utilization Decisions

This presentation discusses the MARC Content Designation Utilization (MCDU) Project. It presents information about the goals and scope of the project, the methodology and information about the process, and the implications of this project.
Date: January 25, 2006
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Presentation
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
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.
Object Type: Paper
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.
Object Type: Paper
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
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
Needs Assessment Toolkit: Guidelines and Data Collection Tools (open access)

Needs Assessment Toolkit: Guidelines and Data Collection Tools

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. Each of the projects represents a collaborative effort to preserve for future generations born-digital or digitized cultural heritage materials and collections. The Web-at-Risk project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University. The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build collections of web-published materials. The content will be collected largely from US federal and state government agencies, but will also include political policy documents, campaign literature, and information surrounding political movements. The project work will be conducted along four paths of overlapping activities. The Web-at-Risk Project work paths include (1) Content identification, selection, and acquisition; (2) Content harvest and analysis; (3) Content ingest, retention, and transfer; and (4) Partnership building.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Paper
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