Curating the Southwest Region's Maps: UNT-UTA Collaborative Project

Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference discussing the Mapping the Southwest project. Mapping the Southwest was a 3-year project (2010-2013) funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) We the People grant. This presentation discusses the background of the project, the goals and activities, impacts, and lessons learned.
Date: August 16, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Facilitating Discovery and Long-term Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Notes About Those in Music

Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. In this presentation, the authors discuss facilitating discovery and long-term access to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and offer notes about music ETDs.
Date: August 16, 2013
Creator: Hartsock, Ralph; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Justice, Andrew
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping the Southwest: Final Performance Report (open access)

Mapping the Southwest: Final Performance Report

This report documents the Mapping the Southwest project, led by the University of North Texas (UNT) and with their partner, the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Libraries Special Collections. The project was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This final report briefly describes the Mapping the Southwest project activities and accomplishments in six work areas, and provides a discussion of achievements, issues faced and resolved, and lessons learned that may be of benefit to others. Additional detail is provided in some areas with appendices.
Date: July 31, 2013
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborative Approach to Address Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Challenges

Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Summer Meeting. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaborative approaches to address scholarly communications and digital curation challenges.
Date: June 14, 2013
Creator: Helge, Kris; Waugh, Laura & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Open Access

Presentation for a workshop at the 2013 Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the impact of open access for students, the impact of open access on universities, and the impact of open access on publishing practices.
Date: May 31, 2013
Creator: Najmi, Anjum; Helge, Kris & Waugh, Laura
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

How Digital Libraries can Create a Culture of Open Access on Campus

Presentation for a panel discussion at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This panel presentation discusses how digital libraries can create a culture of open access on campus. Five panelists discuss their perspectives, strategies, challenges, and progress.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Najmi, Anjum; Waugh, Laura; Helge, Kris; Stark, Shannon & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region's Maps Online

This poster discusses the Mapping the Southwest Project, involving putting our region's maps online. The poster includes background information on the project, the project plan, workflow and equipment, and the impacts and lessons learned.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Jones, Jerrell; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Phillips, Mark Edward; Hodges, Ann; Huseman, Ben et al.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Access to Web Archives through Innovative Analysis of PDF Content (open access)

Improving Access to Web Archives through Innovative Analysis of PDF Content

This paper discusses improving access to web archives through innovative analysis of PDF content. The paper discusses the overall workflow and describes the tools used to extract document features. Findings suggest opportunities for the development of retrieval tools that will provide new ways of selecting content and building collections from large Web archives.
Date: April 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classification Of The End-Of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices To Web Archives (open access)

Classification Of The End-Of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices To Web Archives

This is the final report for the EOTCD project, which is formally titled 'Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives.' The project commenced December 1, 2009 and ended November 30, 2012. The overview includes background information about the End of Term (EOT) 2008 Archive and a brief description of the activities conducted in the project's four work areas. Following the Overview there are three sections: Goals Accomplished; Significant Findings and Accomplishments; and Project Achievements.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Overview of Factors that Affect Digital Resources Discoverability (open access)

Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Overview of Factors that Affect Digital Resources Discoverability

Paper accompanying a poster for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes factors that affect digital resource discoverability.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Tmava, Ahmet Meti & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders National Partnership (open access)

The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders National Partnership

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Stark, Shannon; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Eisenhauer, Stephen
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders Partnership [Poster]

Poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This poster discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Stark, Shannon; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Eisenhauer, Stephen
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hidden Collections Redux: Summer 2013 (open access)

Hidden Collections Redux: Summer 2013

This report is offers an update on the hidden collections at the UNT Libraries. Its purpose is to serve as a true representation of the collections in the UNT Libraries with little or no access.
Date: 2013
Creator: Brannon, Sian; Parks, Sue; Phillips, Mark Edward & Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reengineering The Portal to Texas History (open access)

Reengineering The Portal to Texas History

This book chapter reports on a case study on the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system.
Date: 2013
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.; Phillips, Mark Edward; Hicks, William; Weng, Neena & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library