This doctoral dissertation applies user experience and complex systems theory, combining eye-tracking data with verbal and observational data from user test instances, to study the effectiveness of metadata records that accompany digital primary source objects available on The Portal to Texas History.

Photograph of the front of Denton Camera Exchange in Denton, Texas. This image is a stitched 360-degree panoramic photograph.

Photograph of the side of Mi Casita Mexican restaurant and the Denton Record Exchange in Denton, Texas. This image is a stitched 360-degree panoramic photograph.

Photograph of the University of North Texas sign from the middle of the street on the UNT campus. This image is a stitched 360-degree panoramic photograph.

Photograph of the east side of Denton Camera Exchange in Denton, Texas. This image is a stitched 360-degree panoramic photograph.

Photograph between Mi Casita Mexican restaurant and Denton Camera Exchange in Denton, Texas. This image is a stitched 360-degree panoramic photograph.

Brief history of name authority in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Collections, including the development and use of a local name authority database for creators associated with the UNT community. This text was part of the article "Who Is This: Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management" published in the May/June 2018 issue of AALL Spectrum.

This presentation provides an overview of the beginning stages of the IMLS funded two-year web archiving research project with Internet Archive, Stanford University Libraries, University of North Texas, and Rutgers University.

Photograph of a longhorn head sculpture by Joe Barrington off of the town square in Albany, Texas. This photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.

Photograph of Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas. This image is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.

Photograph of the old bridge for US Highway 281 in Shackelford County, Texas. The old bridge is open to pedestrians and is parallel to the highway. This photograph is stitched 360-degree panoramic image.

Photograph of the gazebo on the courthouse square in Albany, Texas. This photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.

This presentation provides an overview of the design features and goals of newly-developed metadata quality interfaces in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections. Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

Presented at the 2018 Ke Au Hou Pacific Librarianship Conference. This presentation describes a pre-conference workshop that provides attendees with a better understanding of the landscape related to digital preservation and access among cultural heritage institutions, key components in the ongoing process of preserving digital information, and the building blocks of digital preservation systems.

Presentation for the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Archives Community Group virtual meeting held on May 12, 2020. The presentation is a demonstration of the IIIF by the University of North Texas' 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.

This poster discusses issues and considerations in describing and integrating ETDs and associated content.

This presentation provides an overview of a pilot training program for student assistants in the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab.

This presentation provides an overview of a reassessment of digital imaging workflow for University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab.

Presentation describing the development of project management systems for digital projects by piloting the open-source software OpenProject. It was presented at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2022 which was held virtually on May 23, 2022.

Presentation for Data Rescue Denton. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, with a comparison of the 2008, 2012, and 2016 harvests.

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter.

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation focuses on photogrammetry methods used for model creation as well as metadata description, uploading, and viewing of the models in the UNT Digital Library.

Presentation detailing the customized workflow established for the creation of the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection in the UNT Digital Library, as well as the unique problems and solutions that arose throughout the course of the project. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.