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Implementing a Serial Title Database: A UNT Case Study

Presentation outlining information about the deployment of a new serial title database in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections, including background information, purpose of the database, record modeling, and integration into the public interface.
Date: October 18, 2023
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

Moving the End of Term Web Archive to the Cloud to Encourage Research Use and Reuse

Presentation given at the 2022 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Virtual Workshop, in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), on June 24, 2022. This presentation discusses the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive project and process of organizing, staging, processing, and moving these collections into the Amazon cloud.
Date: June 24, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alam, Sawood
System: The UNT Digital Library

Investigating the Use of Metadata Record Graphs to Analyze Subject Headings in the Digital Public Library of America

Presentation discussing network analysis of aggregated subject values in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), with a discussion of how format normalization could affect subject overlap across collections.
Date: August 4, 2020
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

Identifier Usage and Maintenance in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

Presentation for the 2016 DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. This presentation discusses the various ways that the UNT Libraries creates identifiers for objects and vocabulary values.
Date: 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Perils of Complexity: A multi-stage study to determine necessary images for digitized scrapbook representation

Presentation on a multi-stage study to assess national trends and user preferences for scrapbook representation undertaken by librarians at the University of North Texas. The stages of this study included a review of national trends in scrapbook digitization, as seen in the Digital Public Library of America; a paper-prototyping-inspired, in-person user study; and an online survey of user preferences. The results of this research have enabled the implementation of clear guidelines at the University of North Texas for scrapbook digitization that accounts for the user experience rather than strictly relying on personal opinion or local librarian consensus. It was presented at the Visual Resource Association Annual Conference held on March 22-26, 2021.
Date: March 26, 2021
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing a Metadata Ecosystem at the UNT Libraries

Presentation for Drexel University's "Metadata Mixers" series describing some of the features and tools that UNT Libraries have been implementing for metadata creation and assessment in the Digital Collections and how they all work together to support metadata activities.
Date: July 16, 2020
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

EPIC: A Proposed Model for Approaching Metadata Improvement

Presentation for the 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research proposing a model that delineates the components of metadata improvement as an iterative cycle, based on the work and experiences at UNT.
Date: December 3, 2020
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

Organizational Practices: A Digital Repository's Perspective

This presentation examines collection organization and preservation from the perspective of The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository for cultural heritage and historic materials from across the state of Texas. It focuses on how knowing one’s organizational scope, mission, and collection goals can help shape their materials management.
Date: April 22, 2020
Creator: Mangum, Jake & McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digitization at the Portal to Texas History

The presentation introduces the process of digitizing material into the Portal to Texas History. It was presented at the 2020 Texas Association of Museums Conference. The history of the repository, digitization standards, and workflows are discussed along with some lessons learned.
Date: May 13, 2020
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Mangum, Jake
System: The UNT Digital Library

IIIF and the UNT Digital Collections

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.
Date: May 12, 2020
Creator: Hicks, William & McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Makerspaces: Fabricating a Bibliographic Community

This presentation focuses on the 3Dhotbed collection's goal of creating a bibliographic community. The team discusses their challenges of broadening the project while ensuring quality metadata and long-term preservation. It was presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum held in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 15-17, 2018.
Date: October 16, 2018
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney E.; McIntosh, Marcia & O'Sullivan, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity

UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity. Ultimately choosing to adapt the Points Process System developed by the University of Northwestern.
Date: October 15, 2019
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Library Federation 2019 Capacity Presentation Script

Script notes for the presentation "Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity" at the 2019 Digital Library Federation Forum. UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity.
Date: October 15, 2019
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Updates from the 3DHotbed Collection

This presentation highlights the progress of the 3D History of the Book Education (3Dhotbed) collection. The team has focused on creating workflows, promoting the collection, adding new material, and assessment of the collection by users. It was presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries held in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Book History Meets 3D: The 3Dhotbed Project

This presentation is an overview of the 3Dhotbed Project that seeks to enhance book history instruction by providing access to affordable teaching tools and related materials for pedagogical purposes. It was presented at the Born to Be 3D: Digital Stewardship of Intrinsic 3D Data conference held by the Library of Congress on November 2, 2018.
Date: November 2, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Jacobs, Courtney E. & O'Sullivan, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

This presentation provides an overview for the University of North Texas Libraries' digital collections: The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and the Gateway to Oklahoma History.
Date: August 14, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating, Curating, and Preserving Digital Collections: Preserving the Digital Heritage

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.
Date: May 1, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Extracting "Documents" from Web Archives

This presentation describes the process of using machine-learning algorithms to identify and extract publications from web archives.
Date: December 13, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

IIIF in the UNT Libraries Digital Collections

Presentation for the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Texas Conference. This presentation describes how IIIF is implemented in the University of North Texas Libraries digital collections.
Date: October 9, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

The End of Term Archive: Collaboratively Preserving the United States Government Web

Presentation the 2018 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference. This presentation describes the End of Term archive project and its activities after the 2016 end of term.
Date: November 13, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Grotke, Abigail
System: The UNT Digital Library

Automatic Classification of Name Strings in Library Metadata

Presentation for the 2017 Code4Lib South Central Conference. This presentation describes how a machine learning model can help with classifying name types in library metadata.
Date: August 11, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collecting and Preserving the Federal Web: End of Term Archive – 2008, 2012, 2016

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management as part of the panel "Big Data and Government Information." This presentation describes the work of the End of Term Archive to preserve the federal web.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Archiving Practices for Linguists: UNT Digital Library

Presentation the 2018 Computational Resources on South Asian Languages Symposium. This presentation describes how linguistic resources are made accessible through the University of North Texas Libraries digital collections.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

History 9-1-1: How University of North Texas Libraries Save Newspaper Runs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Presentation for the 2018 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions International News Media Conference. This presentation describes how the Texas Digital Newspaper Program partners with other libraries and museum to preserve materials, and how this can act as a safeguard after natural disasters in the area.
Date: September 13, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library