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Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit and how the system and software to create digital collections was developed. It also discusses the future plans for system and software changes in the Digital Projects Unit.
Date: May 27, 2009
Creator: Nordstrom, Kurt & Fredericks, Brandon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources (open access)

Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources

Paper accompanying a poster presentation at the 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses metadata quality and a phased approach to ensuring long-term access to digital resources.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This poster discusses how an effective metadata management approach can help institutions improve consistency, clarity of lineage, and relationships to that they can better use, reuse, and integrate resources.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities (open access)

Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This paper provides an overall scenario in the areas of aggregating a variety of digital formats, archiving digital content, and innovative uses of digital library technologies.
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience (open access)

Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience

Paper accompanying a poster for the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Conference. Paper discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' digital libraries' implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This poster describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital libraries implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2005 ASIS&T Annual conference. This poster discusses challenges, opportunities, and meeting the demands of digital scholarship.
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Designing Information Communities for the 3D Environment (open access)

Designing Information Communities for the 3D Environment

This abstract describes a panel presentation for the 2002 ASIS&T Annual Conference. The panel provides a summary of current research efforts in 3D imaging technologies, including how metadata fit into the panorama of building information communities.
Date: 2002
Creator: Hastings, Samantha Kelly; Rowe, Timothy; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Lewis, Elise; Noot, Walter; Arroyo, Miguel Morales et al.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Harvesting in Support of Faculty Research and Environmental Science Digital Library Development

This poster presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' process for harvesting web materials and creating a digital library collection with the data obtained.
Date: July 13, 2009
Creator: Hall, Nathan
Object Type: Poster
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

Implementing a Robust Architecture for a Centralized Portal System

Poster presented at the 2005 ALISE Annual Conference. This poster discusses the architecture for a centralized portal system.
Date: January 2005
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

Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Collaborative Models for Digital Libraries in a Heterogeneous Institutional Landscape

This presentation gives a brief overview of the collaborative efforts of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit and its partners in digitization projects.
Date: December 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries

This presentation discusses how The Portal to Texas History is harnessing technology to enable collaboration with small museums and libraries. This presentation includes information on the workflows, planning, metadata elements, and goals for the Portal project.
Date: 2005
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
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

Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development: Born-Digital and Digitized Materials [Presentation]

This presentation discusses the phases of web collection development, challenges with web archives, and the need and benefit for preserving web materials.
Date: April 20, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Paper
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

Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries

This presentation gives a basic outline of the work flow and processes involved within the Digital Projects Unit. Topics include scanning, digital preservation, and staffing.
Date: February 12, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Moore, Jeremy D.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Annexation of Texas Project

Presentation for the 2003 GODART Preconference at the American Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation outlines the "From Republic to State: Debates and Documents Relating to the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1856" project. This grant funded project involved digitizing 6000 objects.
Date: June 21, 2003
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience (open access)

A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Article discussing metadata approaches to preservation of digital resources and the experiences of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: August 5, 2002
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hastings, Samantha Kelly & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ode to Controlled Vocabulary (open access)

Ode to Controlled Vocabulary

This poem pays homage to controlled vocabularies. It describes the importance of using controlled vocabularies and why they should be respected and utilized.
Date: March 2009
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Poem
System: The UNT Digital Library

Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. The poster 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
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library