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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management (open access)

Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

Book chapter on maintaining quality metadata and effective digital resource lifecycle management.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Book Chapter
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.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.0

In this presentation, the author defines Folksonomy and the advantages and disadvantages of Folksonomy. He begins with a background on information retrieval and changing technologies, discusses trends in technologies, and explains the use of tags and Folksonomy.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

This presentation discusses the critical issues of metadata quality in digital libraries and describes the efforts being made by the University of North Texas Libraries to ensure metadata quality at various levels of digital resources' life cycle.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms [Poster]

This poster presentation was presented at the 2008 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference (Work in Progress session). The poster discusses that maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions, and demonstrates some of the tools and quality assurance mechanisms used at the UNT Libraries.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms (open access)

Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms

Abstract document accompanying a poster presentation for the 2008 ALISE Annual Conference (Work in Progress session. The topic is maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections using a complex set of actions and some of the tools and quality assurance mechanisms used at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access

Presentation for the 2008 Depository Library Council Annual Meeting. This presentation outlines the history, tool building, partner activities and future work for a collaborative project between the University of North Texas, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Date: October 21, 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas

This presentation discusses the preservation and digitization of content at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include a background of the digital initiatives at the UNT Libraries, the organization of the digital initiatives, the collaborative projects, the collections held by the UNT Libraries, and areas of research.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rolling Your Own Digital Library System

This presentation discusses the topic of building your own digital library system. It explains why the University of North Texas built their own system and some of the initial challenges and the advantages associated with the process.
Date: April 15, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Archiving Workshop: Tools Overview

This presentation offers a brief discussion of web archiving tools. Tools include Wget, HTTrack, Heritrix, Wayback, and NutchWAX.
Date: June 4, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project

This presentation explains the End of Term Presidential Harvest, a collaborative project to preserve U.S. Government web sites at the end of the 2008 Presidential election. The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, California Digital Library, University of North Texas, and the US Government Printing Office were the participating organizations for this project.
Date: December 9, 2008
Creator: Grotke, Abigail; Phillips, Mark Edward & Barnum, George
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library