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The Portal to Texas History: The Time Machine to Find Your Ancestors

Presentation for the East Texas Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of how The Portal to Texas History can be used for genealogical research.
Date: October 14, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production Log: A Digital Imaging Capacity Replication Project (open access)

The Production Log: A Digital Imaging Capacity Replication Project

This article describes the University of North Texas Digital Projects Unit Imaging Lab's replication of the Points Process system developed by the Northwestern University Libraries' Repository and DIgital Curation Department.
Date: March 16, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quality Assurance and Evaluation of Change for Patent Metadata

Presented at the 2017 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Conference. This poster describes a study of metadata quality assurance within the Texas Patents Collection of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: October 30, 2017
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers (open access)

Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers

This paper discusses the use of digital newspaper pages through the Library of Congress database Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers as a case study to demonstrate the value of developing tools to locate non-textual content.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Replicating Processes: Testing the Project Points System at UNT Digital Projects

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation describes the replication of a points system used by Northwestern University's Digital Media Services department to better understand lab resources and capacity within the UNT Digital Projects Lab.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Revisiting Copyright and Scholarly Communication Issues while Promoting Open Educational Resources (OER)

This presentation discusses trends and initiatives in promoting open access and open educational resources.
Date: December 16, 2016
Creator: Helge, Kris & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Time Travel Classroom: Historic Newspapers Online [Fall 2017]

Presentation providing an overview of The Portal to Texas History, with examples of resources available within the repository. It specifically focuses on newspapers and how to use them for historical context and primary source information.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tools and Workflows for Managing Metadata at the UNT Libraries

Presentation for the Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Virtual Conference. This presentation provides an overview of interface design features in the metadata editing system for the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections.
Date: November 7, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on the Portal to Texas History (open access)

Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on the Portal to Texas History

This paper discusses the research findings of a user experience project directly related to how people interact with newspapers on The Portal to Texas History.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Understanding Connections: Examining Digital Library and Institutional Repository Use Overlap

Presentation for the 13th International Conference on Open Repositories. This presentation examines how users navigate between UNT Scholarly Works and other collections available through the University of North Texas Digital Library.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Andrews, Pamela & Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries ETD Citation Analysis Project

Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses results from an analysis of UNT Electronic Theses and Dissertations citing URLs to items from the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Klein, Janette; Harker, Karen & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

User Directed Scrapbook Digitization

Presentation for the 2018 Digital Library Federation Forum. This presentation provides an overview of a study to understand user preferences in the digitization of scrapbooks.
Date: October 16, 2018
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
User Directed Scrapbook Digitization Script (open access)

User Directed Scrapbook Digitization Script

Script notes for the presentation "User Directed Scrapbook Digitization" at the 2018 Digital Library Federation Forum. This presentation provides an overview of a study to understand user preferences in the digitization of scrapbooks.
Date: October 16, 2018
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

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
"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management (open access)

"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management

Article describing name authority practices in institutional repositories at three universities -- University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, and the University of Arizona -- and how processes have been adapted in digital libraries to incorporate or be more compatible with linked data.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Graham, Suzanne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library