Degree Department

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
Digitization of Government Information (open access)

Digitization of Government Information

Report submitted by an American Libraries Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) ad hoc committee charged to "create a report advising GODORT on the best practices and procedures in the digital library field and advise GODORT on the most effective organizational structure for support of the government information community in pursuing digital library initiatives" (p. 2).
Date: June 14, 2002
Creator: American Library Association. Government Documents Round Table. Ad Hoc Committee on Digitization Of Government Information.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Making it Work, Making it Fun: Metadata in Action

This presentation discusses metadata and how to ensure quality. It illustrates how the University of North Texas (UNT) utilizes a metadata analysis tool and a metadata template creator.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Research, Rummage, and Reconnoiter: Online Exploration at The Portal to Texas History

This presentation discusses what The Portal to Texas History is and the benefits that it provides to the community and to educators. It also illustrates how to use The Portal to Texas History, shows examples of the collections, and discusses future goals.
Date: March 8, 2007
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Cost-Benefit Approach for Describing and Processing Digital Objects

This presentation discusses the costs and benefits associated with creating the metadata and ensuring metadata quality in The Portal to Texas History.
Date: August 30, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digitization Basics for Museums

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and illustrates what types of items are in the collection and the resources available to museums, educators, and partners. It also discusses the future goals of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: April 5, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Teaching With The Portal to Texas History

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how the collections and resources for educators are used to enhance learning and as teaching aids.
Date: October 13, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaboration in Practice: Megadata Happens

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how collaborations with other organizations has helped add to the collection. In this presentation, the author illustrates examples from The Portal to Texas History with information about metadata management, quality issues, and the automated systems in place by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Update on Digitization at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries

This presentation gives an update on the digital collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in their Digital Collection and The Portal to Texas History in 2008.
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)

This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2009 and the future projects planned.
Date: February 13, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Architecture of a Centralized Portal to Distributed Information: The Portal to Texas History (open access)

Architecture of a Centralized Portal to Distributed Information: The Portal to Texas History

This handout discusses the development of the architecture to build The Portal to Texas History through the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: 2004
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The UNTL Metadata Guidelines: [Version-2, 2006] (open access)

The UNTL Metadata Guidelines: [Version-2, 2006]

Report on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries metadata guidelines. This report discusses describing digital objects in a consistent way that ensures long-term preservation and that provides for optimum searching, discovery and retrieval of information by users of our heterogeneous digital collections.
Date: 2006
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Belden, Dreanna; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Phillips, Mark Edward & Reis, Nancy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eclipses (open access)

Eclipses

Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses eclipses.
Date: 2009
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

What's My Leadership Color?

This presentation discusses leadership skills in relation to colors. The topics relate to the "True Colors" quiz, leadership colors, attributes and stressors, and esteem and colors. The discussion is based on "True Colors - An Approach to Understanding Self and Others" by Julie Ray, Partners in Learning.
Date: 2004
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fear of Extinction before Enlightenment (open access)

The Fear of Extinction before Enlightenment

This flyer showcases a painting by Rebecca Barham with information about the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 20th Annual Juried members Exhibition.
Date: 2008
Creator: Barham, Rebecca
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spiritual Anatomy: In the Image of the Universal Mind (open access)

Spiritual Anatomy: In the Image of the Universal Mind

This flyer showcases a painting by Rebecca Barham with information about the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 21st Annual Juried Members Exhibition.
Date: 2009
Creator: Barham, Rebecca
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collection Plan for the CyberCemetery (open access)

Collection Plan for the CyberCemetery

This report discusses the collection plan for the CyberCemetery, part of the Web-at-Risk project. The topics include the mission and scope, the selection, acquisition, descriptive metadata, presentation and access, maintenance and weeding, and preservation.
Date: August 21, 2006
Creator: Glenn, Valerie & Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Deep Web: Resource Discovery in the Library of Texas (open access)

The Deep Web: Resource Discovery in the Library of Texas

Article discussing the deep web and the new resource discovery service of the statewide virtual Library of Texas (LOT).
Date: 2004
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: New York University - New York City - September, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: New York University - New York City - September, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: March 24, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Web-Based Survey Research Consent Letter (open access)

Web-Based Survey Research Consent Letter

This letter is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The letter introduces participants to what the Web-at-Risk project is and what the study hopes to accomplish.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Needs Assessment Survey Report (open access)

Needs Assessment Survey Report

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. The project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library (CDL), the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University (NYU). The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build collections of web-published materials. The content of the collections for this project will be largely from US federal and state government agencies, but will also include political policy documents, campaign literature, and information surrounding political movements and labor unions. This report includes the methods, results, discussion, and appendices related to the Web-at-Risk project.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: Hsieh, Inga K. & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Needs Assessment Survey Report: Abbreviated Version (open access)

Needs Assessment Survey Report: Abbreviated Version

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Needs Assessment Toolkit created for the Web-at-Risk project describes the project's needs assessment activities and includes data collection tools, which are designated to identify the needs and requirements of curators, web-content producers, and end users with regard to the Web Archive Service. Additionally, information gathered by some of the data collection tools will help to identify curators' requirements for the web crawler and its crawl analyzer tool, which will be developed as part of the project. Each of the assessment activities described in the Needs Assessment Toolkit was designated to follow a collection development framework for web archives. This report contains a data analysis of the survey results. Results from focus group discussions and interviews with content providers and end users are presented in separate reports.
Date: January 5, 2006
Creator: Hsieh, Inga K. & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archiving Web-published Materials (open access)

Archiving Web-published Materials

Handout accompanying a presentation for the 2007 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference on the Web-at-Risk project and the Web Archiving Service (WAS).
Date: April 13, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: University of North Texas - Denton - August 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: University of North Texas - Denton - August 2005

This report discusses a focus group that was part of the Web-at-Risk project. The report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: February 14, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library