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Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento (open access)

Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento

Paper presenting the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources reference from papers in scholarly repositories.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark Edward & Van de Sompel, Herbert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection (open access)

Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection

This paper applies the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate collection development strategies for an institutional repository.
Date: May 23, 2018
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Harker, Karen & Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barriers to Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions: An Exploratory Study (open access)

Barriers to Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions: An Exploratory Study

Paper for the 2009 IS&T Archiving Conference. This paper discusses an exploratory study on barriers to adopting PREMIS in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: May 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas (open access)

Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas

Paper on how metadata supports the cycle of system improvements at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Big Data and Government Information (open access)

Big Data and Government Information

Panel paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This panel explores the current landscape of big data applications for government information.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward; Smith, Lisa & Shimabuku, Hope
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building Institutional Capacity in Digital Preservation (open access)

Building Institutional Capacity in Digital Preservation

Paper for the IPRES Annual Conference on building institutional capacity in digital preservation.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Schultz, Matt; Phillips, Mark Edward; Eisenhauer, Stephen & Krabbenhoeft, Nick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation (open access)

Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation

This paper will examine ongoing work between two major preservation systems, the Chronopolis Digital Preservation Program, and the MetaArchive Cooperative.
Date: September 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials (open access)

Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials

This paper discusses collaborations, best practices, and collection development for the preservation of born-digital and digitized materials.
Date: 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E) (open access)

Comparison of Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E)

Paper for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This paper describes examinations of various digital asset management systems' (DAMS) capabilities and functions. Evaluation is based on the documentation relating to each package.
Date: March 21, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Polyakov, Serhiy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Full-text Versus Metadata Searching in an Institutional Repository: Case Study of the UNT Scholarly Works (open access)

Comparison of Full-text Versus Metadata Searching in an Institutional Repository: Case Study of the UNT Scholarly Works

This paper discusses a case study comparing full-text versus metadata searching in the University of North Texas (UNT) Scholarly Works institutional repository.
Date: February 8, 2015
Creator: Waugh, Laura; Tarver, Hannah; Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Content Divide: Africa and the Global Knowledge Footprint Sponsored by: SIG/III

This paper discusses Africa and the global knowledge footprint.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Assefa, Shimelis; Rorissa, Abebe; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Albright, Kendra
System: The UNT Digital Library
Curation of the End-of-Term Web Archive (open access)

Curation of the End-of-Term Web Archive

Paper for the 2011 IS&T Archiving Conference. This paper discusses the Classification of the End-of-Term Archive research project at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2011
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.; Ko, Lauren & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving (open access)

Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving

This paper presents the results of a survey of quality assurance (QA) practices within the field of web archiving. To understand current QA practices, the authors surveyed 54 institutions engaged in web archiving, which included national libraries, colleges and universities, and museums and art libraries.
Date: August 19, 2014
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda; Phillips, Mark Edward & Ko, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cybercemetery: Prolonging Usable Afterlife (open access)

The Cybercemetery: Prolonging Usable Afterlife

Paper for the 2004 IS&T Annual Archiving Conference. This paper discusses issues related to digital resource management when capturing and preserving web-based, heterogeneous digital materials produced by a variety of software in various versions.
Date: 2004
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Hastings, Samantha Kelly & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs (open access)

Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs

This paper discusses data desiccation and facilitating the long-term access, use, and reuse of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: September 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge in Agriculture: The Case for Africa (open access)

Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge in Agriculture: The Case for Africa

Paper discussing the diffusion of scientific knowledge on agriculture for Africa. Using exploratory research method, this paper set out to investigate existing knowledge diffusion models and their limitations, available best practices, and the potential to infuse translational research as a way to augment extension service programs in SSA agricultural practices.
Date: July 2013
Creator: Assefa, Shimelis; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE (open access)

Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Weidner, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project (open access)

Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project

In this paper, the authors describe research led by Educopia Institute regarding the preservation needs for digitized and born-digital newspapers. The 'Chronicles in Preservation' project, builds upon previous efforts (e.g. the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program) to look more broadly at the needs of digital newspapers in all of their diverse and challenging forms. This paper conveys the findings of the first research phase, including substantive survey results regarding digital newspaper curation practices.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Schultz, Matt; Halbert, Martin & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Empowering Digital Libraries Users through Combining Taxonomies with Folksonomies

This paper accompanies a poster presentation discussing empowering digital libraries users through combining taxonomies and folksonomies.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Overview of Factors that Affect Digital Resources Discoverability (open access)

Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Overview of Factors that Affect Digital Resources Discoverability

Paper accompanying a poster for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes factors that affect digital resource discoverability.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Tmava, Ahmet Meti & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions (open access)

Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This paper provides some preliminary results on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries

Paper presented at the 2018 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications Initiative (DCMI). This paper describes work underway at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to design and implement interfaces and tools for analyzing metadata quality in their local metadata editing environment.
Date: September 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploration of Adoption of Preservation Metadata in Cultural Heritage Institutions (open access)

Exploration of Adoption of Preservation Metadata in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Paper presented at the 2010 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses preservation metadata and its role in the challenges of long-term access.
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploratory Analysis of Metadata Edit Events in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections (open access)

Exploratory Analysis of Metadata Edit Events in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

This paper discusses an exploratory analysis of metadata edit events in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital collections.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library