Systems Interoperability and Collaborative Development for Web Archiving - Filling Gaps in the IMLS National Digital Platform

This presentation provides an overview of the beginning stages of the IMLS funded two-year web archiving research project with Internet Archive, Stanford University Libraries, University of North Texas, and Rutgers University.
Date: May 25, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Mumma, Courtney
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Text: Best Practices for Cataloging Music-ETDs and Associated Audio-Visual Materials

This poster discusses issues and considerations in describing and integrating ETDs and associated content.
Date: May 25, 2016
Creator: Hartsock, Ralph & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Training Games Program: A Method for Digitization Skills Refreshment and Certification

This presentation provides an overview of a pilot training program for student assistants in the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab.
Date: May 25, 2016
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rethinking "But This is the Way We've Always Done It!"

This presentation provides an overview of a reassessment of digital imaging workflow for University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab.
Date: May 26, 2016
Creator: Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections (open access)

A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections

This paper presents a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive: The What, The Why, The How

Presentation for Data Rescue Denton. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, with a comparison of the 2008, 2012, and 2016 harvests.
Date: May 20, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive--2008, 2012, 2016

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, including updates and challenges from the 2016 harvest.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

I am not a photographer. One librarian's journey toward understanding FADGI, image quality, and digitization best practices

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of site visits from over a dozen digitizing institutions across the country, including common tools used and best practices.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries ETD Citation Analysis Project

Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses results from an analysis of UNT Electronic Theses and Dissertations citing URLs to items from the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Klein, Janette; Harker, Karen & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

TRAIL @ UNT: Update

Presentation for the 2017 Technical report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) Annual Meeting. This presentation provides an update on the TRAIL Collection at UNT Libraries, including current metadata remediation initiatives.
Date: May 9, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Rosenbeck, Craig
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lessons Learned in Creating New Digital Libraries Interfaces

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses lessons learned from the UNT Libraries redesign of two digital library interfaces: The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Hicks, William & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Approaches developed to ensure accuracy and consistency of metadata for TRAIL reports

Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses metadata remediation issues within the UNT Libraries TRAIL collection focused on identifying and measuring issues related to incomplete records and creation date discrepancies.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Rosenbeck, Craig
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Replicating Processes: Testing the Project Points System at UNT Digital Projects

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation describes the replication of a points system used by Northwestern University's Digital Media Services department to better understand lab resources and capacity within the UNT Digital Projects Lab.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing the DPLA Texas Service Hub, v.2. A collaboration to build the next generation aggregator for Texas

Presentation sharing the goals and mission of a pilot between the University of North Texas and the Texas Digital Library to develop a prototype of a new service hub for Texas to provide metadata from collections across the state to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Park, Kristi L.; Steans, Ryan; Halbert, Martin; Hiott, Judith; Woodward, Nick & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Experiments with Metadata Quality Interfaces

This presentation provides an overview of the design features and goals of newly-developed metadata quality interfaces in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections. Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploring our Collections: The Many Colors of the UNT Digital Library

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Piloting Photogrammetry in Digital Libraries

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation focuses on photogrammetry methods used for model creation as well as metadata description, uploading, and viewing of the models in the UNT Digital Library.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identity Management at the University of North Texas (open access)

Identity Management at the University of North Texas

Brief history of name authority in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Collections, including the development and use of a local name authority database for creators associated with the UNT community. This text was part of the article "Who Is This: Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management" published in the May/June 2018 issue of AALL Spectrum.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management (open access)

"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management

Article describing name authority practices in institutional repositories at three universities -- University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, and the University of Arizona -- and how processes have been adapted in digital libraries to incorporate or be more compatible with linked data.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Graham, Suzanne
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library