Web Archiving Workshop: Overview

This presentation gives a brief overview of the history of web archiving and explains key terms and concepts related to web archiving and harvesting with illustrated examples.
Date: June 4, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?

This presentation briefly introduces the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and their mission. It explains the structure of the Digital Projects Unit having the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History, and discusses their metadata structure and its role in Digital Projects.
Date: March 16, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preserving Our Collective Digital History

This presentation introduces the mission and the roles of the departments in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and focuses on the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit.
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for Persistent Identification

This presentation discusses the usefulness of an Archival Resource Key (ARK) and how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Digital Projects Unit use ARKs in their system.
Date: June 5, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

URL Nominating Tool

This presentation gives an overview of the URL Nominating TOOL project and defines some of the associated key concepts. It explores the entity attribute value data model, URL's and SURTs, and batch imports.
Date: July 8, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Building Digital Archives

This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library

Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections

This presentation describes the infrastructure and collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital initiatives. This discusses issues related to searching and explains possible solutions to best enhance metadata and searching capabilities.
Date: May 31, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata and XML

This presentation discusses how XML can help store metadata. The University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit developed the UNTL metadata element set with IndexData that tailored the data to meet their needs.
Date: November 7, 2003
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries

This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives.
Date: January 28, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Effective Tools for Digital Object Management

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit workflow for digitization, including organizing materials, using a Wiki project page, internal workflow, managing objects and identifiers, and using a Magick Numbering system.
Date: 2009
Creator: Moore, Jeremy D. & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library

Folksonomy

This Tech Talk presentation explores Folksonomy. The author explores some of the more common aspects of folksonomies in the context of Web 2.0.
Date: July 2, 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Presentation on issues related to metadata quality management and demonstrates a number of tools, workflows, and quality assurance mechanisms employed by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital resource management. Templates, validation, controlled vocabularies, analysis tools, graphical reports, and more are explained in this presentation.
Date: March 16, 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

An Introduction to MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema

This Tech Talks presentation offers an introduction to MODS. The presenter utilizes real life examples to show how MODS can be used with the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS).
Date: October 17, 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Future is in the Preservation Metadata

This presentation discusses the issue of digital preservation and how metadata provides a critical part of the solution to the preservation challenges from detecting preservation threats to promoting preventative measures.
Date: 2003
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Needs Assessment Toolkit

This presentation discusses the needs assessment toolkit created for the Web-at-Risk project. This presentation outlines the details related to the web archive development process and the activities related to the needs assessment.
Date: May 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Federated Search

This presentation discusses federated and faceted searching including target audiences, expectations, approaches, protocols, uses, and issues.
Date: August 24, 2006
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Archiving at UNT and End of Term Harvest 2008

This presentation illustrates the collaborative project with the University of North Texas (UNT) and the United States Government Printing Office as part of the Federal Depository Library Program. The CyberCemetery was created as an online archive of government websites that have ceased operation. This also discusses the UNT collaboration with the United States Government Printing Office, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and the California Digital Library in an End of Term Harvest project in 2008 to archive the Presidential campaign websites before they ceased to exist.
Date: November 7, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Madness: Quality Issues in Metadata Management

This presentation provides an introductory discussion on metadata quality issues. It outlines factors that influence metadata quality including the resource types, local requirements, collaborators' requirements, and cost issues and addresses how to manage metadata quality.
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library

This presentation discusses the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit at the University of North Texas (UNT) and the IOGENE project. There are illustrated examples and discussion about the challenges faced with the IOGENE user studies.
Date: October 17, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Real World Metadata Management with the University of North Texas Libraries' Metadata Analysis Tool

This presentation gives a brief introduction to the University of North Texas Libraries' digital initiatives, their collections and projects, what metadata management is, and metadata analysis tools.
Date: 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: UNT's Congressional Research Service Reports Archive

This presentation describes the University of North Texas' Congressional Research Services (CRS) Report Archive project. The idea is to capture all CRS reports made available on the web and archive them in one searchable and browsable spot.
Date: October 27, 2006
Creator: Glenn, Valerie & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' web harvesting system organization.
Date: 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative

This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' initiatives to ensure long-term access to various digital resources.
Date: 2002
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library