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Metadata Records Translation And Evaluation for Multilingual Information Access

This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) in Toluca, Mexico. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Presentation
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

TxETDA 2012 Opening Remarks

Presentation with opening remarks for the 2012 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (TxETD) Annual Conference.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Searching Metadata

Poster presented at the 2012 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Annual Conference. This poster discusses information discovery and strategies for creating consistency in metadata schemas.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Oyarce, Guillermo A.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
User Searches in IMLS DCC Collection Registry: Transaction Log Analysis (open access)

User Searches in IMLS DCC Collection Registry: Transaction Log Analysis

This technical report discusses user searches in IMLS DCC collection registry.
Date: 2006
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification (open access)

Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification

This paper presents a method for automatic topic identification using an encyclopedic graph derived from Wikipedia. The system is found to exceed the performance of previously proposed machine learning algorithms for topic identification, with an annotation consistency comparable to human annotations.
Date: May 2009
Creator: Coursey, Kino High; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Paper
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

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

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
UNT at TREC 2004: Question Answering Combining Multiple Evidences (open access)

UNT at TREC 2004: Question Answering Combining Multiple Evidences

This paper discusses Question Answering (QA) combining multiple evidences.
Date: 2004
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Ge, He; Wu, Yan & Jiang, Shikun
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation (open access)

A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation

Article discussing a preliminary evaluation study of metadata records machine translation. This study evaluates freely available machine translation (MT) services' performance in translating metadata records.
Date: 2012
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Ding, Ren; Jiang, Shan & Knudson, Ryan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Intellectual Freedom Manual (open access)

[Review] Intellectual Freedom Manual

This article reviews the book "Intellectual Freedom Manual," compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) of the American Library Association. The manual is designed to answer practical questions that confront librarians in applying the principles of intellectual freedom to library service.
Date: 2007
Creator: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information (open access)

Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information

Article discussing a philosophy of educating health information professionals in a rapidly changing health care and information environment.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Genomics and Translational Medicine for Information Professionals:" an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians (open access)

"Genomics and Translational Medicine for Information Professionals:" an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians

This article discusses an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians and meet the demands of the changing health information environment.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-; Holmes, Kristi L. & Philbrick, Jodi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History (open access)

Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History

Article on metadata records translation and a study of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Ding, Ren & Jiang, Shan
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
Quality Health Information on the Internet: Developing a Diabetes Pathfinder for the Chinese Population (open access)

Quality Health Information on the Internet: Developing a Diabetes Pathfinder for the Chinese Population

A Web-based bilingual diabetes information pathfinder was created to help the Chinese population access quality health information on the Internet as part of a collaborative outreach project in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Date: October 1, 2009
Creator: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-; Philbrick, Jodi; Pan, Xuequn (Della); Yu, Xinyu; Chen, Jiangping; O'Neill, Marty et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contextual Metadata in Digital Aggregations: Application of Collection-Level Subject Metadata and its Role in User Interactions and Information Retrieval (open access)

Contextual Metadata in Digital Aggregations: Application of Collection-Level Subject Metadata and its Role in User Interactions and Information Retrieval

Article discussing a study of contextual metadata in digital aggregations. Results of this study prove importance of provision of collection-level metadata in general and subject metadata in particular to enhance user experiences and information retrieval in digital libraries.
Date: December 19, 2011
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library