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The Portal to Texas History

This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History was started, the processes involved, and how the IOGENE project developed. It discusses the many planning phases and reasons for the decisions that were made and illustrates the outcomes and how The Portal to Texas History works.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries

This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives.
Date: January 28, 2009
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
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

Preserving Our Collective Digital History

This presentation introduces the mission and the roles of the departments in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and focuses on the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit.
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?

This presentation briefly introduces the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and their mission. It explains the structure of the Digital Projects Unit having the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History, and discusses their metadata structure and its role in Digital Projects.
Date: March 16, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' strategies for creating digital collections and services from datasets and born digital objects and serving users outside of formal education and research.
Date: May 27, 2009
Creator: Hall, Nathan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

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

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
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Collection Development Policy: From Documenting Content to Documenting Process

Poster presented at the 2010 Document Academy Annual Meeting. This poster discusses digital collection development policies and documenting content and processes.
Date: 2010
Creator: Hall, Nathan; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Integration of ETD into Topical Digital Library Collections: Facilitating ETD Use and Reuse

Poster presented at the 2010 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Conference. This poster discusses the integration of ETDs into topical digital library collections and facilitating ETD use and reuse.
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Leveraging the Results of NDNP: the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

This presentation discusses how the University of North Texas Libraries and The Portal to Texas History leveraged the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and created the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP).
Date: 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

An NDNP Partnership

This presentation discusses the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) partnership between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Oklahoma Historical Society. It offers a background on how this collaboration began, information on the workflows, and the successes and challenges.
Date: 2010
Creator: Spindle, Angela; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Fisher, Sarah Lynn & Carter, Brent
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive

This presentation is about The Portal to Texas History and the IOGENE project and the strategies and steps involved in their development.
Date: 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update

This presentation provides an update on three projects the Texas Digital Library Metadata Working Group (TDL-MWG) is working on. These include designing a metadata information website, creating best practices for images and datasets, and creating metadata courses for Texas Digital Library (TDL) training.
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Davis, Jee-Hyun; Thomale, Jason; Chen, Mingyu; Mercer, Holly; Hazzard, Jeanne et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

OAI-ORE

This Tech Talk presentation discusses how the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) are used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library. OAI-ORE define the standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.
Date: January 20, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Good" Digital Collections

This Tech Talks presentation covers the principles that apply to "good" digital collections and analyzes how objects, metadata, and the user interface together create the users' experience of a collection.
Date: January 27, 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

jEdit

This Tech Talks presentation discusses the jEdit text editor. jEdit is an open-source text editor available online which is used within the Digital Projects Lab for programming and for editing XML metadata files. In this Tech Talk, Metadata Librarian Hannah Tarver describes some of the ways that jEdit can be customized to make editing quicker and easier for documents that use mark-up languages or plain text.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Storage 101: The Basics

This presentation discusses storage options for digital content, questions to ask when planning, and things to consider for storing and digitizing data.
Date: February 5, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Introduction to Metadata

Presentation on what metadata is, the differences in syntax and semantics in metadata, and examples of associations and organizations that have developed metadata schemas.
Date: April 14, 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive (open access)

Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive

This paper discusses open source components, standard conformance, and UCD as it relates to The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library