Paper for the IPRES Annual Conference on building institutional capacity in digital preservation.

Paper presented at the 2010 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses preservation metadata and its role in the challenges of long-term access.

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.

Paper written for the 2013 Open Repositories conference about the implementation of name authority in the UNT Digital Library.

Paper outlining research regarding date formatting in the UNT digital collections.

Paper presenting the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources reference from papers in scholarly repositories.

This paper discusses the PREMIS Event Service. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries have created a digital library infrastructure that is designed using the Curation Micro Services methodology for building repositories. Based on modular components designed for reuse and re-configuration the authors propose a general-purpose preservation event logging system using the PREMIS Event and Agent data model. An example implementation developed with the Django Web framework and employing RESTful design patterns with the Atom Publishing Protocol is described.

This paper discusses Africa and the global knowledge footprint.

This paper accompanies a poster presentation discussing empowering digital libraries users through combining taxonomies and folksonomies.

This paper discusses the origins of the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) and its early years.

This paper accompanies a poster presentation discussing repurposing existing digital resources and smoothing interdisciplinary communication.

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2003 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This paper describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History project, which aims to integrate and ensuer long-term access to large quantities of heterogeneous digital resources from many different institutions.

This paper describes a grant project to digitize Cooke County, Texas ledgers. The project was funded in part by the National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and involves digitizing and hosting several rare and unique collections representative of the Civil War. The UNT Archives partnered with the UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit (DPU), which managed all stages of the digitization. This paper describes and examines the process the DPU implemented to digitize the Cooke County ledger collection; in doing so, it provides insight into the problems one might encounter, as well as recommendations for institutions that may be considering similar digital projects.

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE.

Paper accompanying a poster for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes factors that affect digital resource discoverability.

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project.

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses research on open access publishing fees and article processing charges.

This paper discusses an exploratory analysis of metadata edit events in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital collections.

Paper describing an analysis of subject representation in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), an aggregate digital library containing more than 8 million item-level metadata records at the time of the study. The findings provide information about the minimum, maximum, and average number of subjects in records from different hubs and hub types, as well as the distribution of unique subject terms across the entire collection.

Short paper presented at the 2022 Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Virtual Workshop, in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), on June 24, 2022. The paper discusses the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive project and process of organizing, staging, processing, and moving these collections into the Amazon cloud.