Appendix A: Preservation Business Model (open access)

Appendix A: Preservation Business Model

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix includes the 2010-2013 Strategic Plan which highlights the Educopia institute's strengths and achievements to date and details the strategic planning process. Specifically this strategic plan declares Educopia institute's: Mission statement, Vision, Three Critical Challenges, and Six Programmatic Goals (with objectives and strategies).
Date: March 13, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer (open access)

Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document is a report on the status of a two-phase transfer test being carried out between the MetaArchive Cooperative and Chronopolis. These tests aim to demonstrate a proof-of-concept that the MetaArchive network may use Chronopolis's data grid preservation service as an exit strategy in the event that either MetaArchive or LOCKSS becomes unsustainable in the future.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep (open access)

Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes the preparation of archival units residing on a LOCKSS file system that have been designated for packaging and exchange with a non-LOCKSS-based preservation environment-in this case an iRODS grid-based environment.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool (open access)

Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes tools. These tools are designed to facilitate the transfer of data contained within a number of LOCKSS archival units and packaged into bags. The bags are then transferred to the iRODS grid. The user has the option of creating and sending filled bags, or holey bags. The primary tools are written in Python, and make use of the iRODS command line utilities for data transfer.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer (open access)

Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare Library collection (246 archival units measuring 1.3TB) hosted on a University of North Texas (UNT) LOCKSS cache to a storage resource hosted by Chronopolis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices (open access)

Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. The purpose of this document is to explain the PREMIS Event microservice as prototyped for the MetaArchive Cooperative, primarily from a developer's standpoint. The document will attempt to explain the purpose of the microservice, the underlying principles on which it operates, and a practical example of its usage. The MetaArchive has installed all of the components needed to deploy this microservice and looks forward to opportunities to experiment with practical implementations in future development projects.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix G: Contingency Plan Outline (open access)

Appendix G: Contingency Plan Outline

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. In this appendix, the policy statements address the general requirements and procedures related to the enactment and handling of the MetaArchive Contingency Plan.
Date: November 9, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography for "Encouraging Research and Publication among Academic Librarians" (open access)

Bibliography for "Encouraging Research and Publication among Academic Librarians"

This bibliography accompanies a presentation for the 2013 Library Management Institute Summer Conference. This bibliography contains citations for information related to encouraging research and publication among academic librarians.
Date: June 2013
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography for "Fostering a Culture of Research and Publication in Academic Libraries" (open access)

Bibliography for "Fostering a Culture of Research and Publication in Academic Libraries"

This bibliography accompanies a presentation for the 2013 Library Management Institute Summer Conference. This bibliography contains citations for information related to fostering a culture of research and publications in academic libraries.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Wahl, Diane
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography: Usage of E-books With Enriched Bibliographic Records (open access)

Bibliography: Usage of E-books With Enriched Bibliographic Records

This bibliography accompanies a presentation for the 2014 Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference. The bibliography contains citations for information related to the usage of e-books with enriched bibliographic records.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Harker, Karen & Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Blow the Curtain Open": How Gene Hall and Leon Breeden Advanced the Legitimacy of Jazz in Music Education [Presentation Notes] (open access)

"Blow the Curtain Open": How Gene Hall and Leon Breeden Advanced the Legitimacy of Jazz in Music Education [Presentation Notes]

Notes accompanying a presentation for the Jazz Education Network Fifth Annual Conference. These notes and the presentation discuss how Gene Hall and Leon Breeden advanced the legitimacy of jazz in music education.
Date: January 11, 2014
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cataloging Services Survey (open access)

Cataloging Services Survey

Survey instrument administered by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services Department from October 27 through November 17, 2014. The purpose of this research study is to assess how Public Service employees rate the importance of Cataloging and Metadata Services activities, and how satisfied Public Service employees are with Cataloging and Metadata Services activities.
Date: 2014
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; Loafman, Kathryn & Welch, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library
Citing UNT: Scholarly Works that have Utilized UNT Resources (open access)

Citing UNT: Scholarly Works that have Utilized UNT Resources

This document is a citation list of the scholarly works that were found to have utilized University of North Texas (UNT) resources.
Date: 2011
Creator: Wilson, Kristi & LeBlanc, Danielle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content Producer Interview Questionnaire (open access)

Content Producer Interview Questionnaire

This document is an interview, questionnaire for the Web-at-Risk project. The purpose of this interview is to explore the issues information publishers or content producers have regarding web archives. The purpose of this discussion is to elicit the needs and thoughts of the users regarding web archives of materials created by a third party, such as a universal library.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Culinary Indexing Reference Sources Questionnaire (open access)

Culinary Indexing Reference Sources Questionnaire

Questionnaire for a study gathering recommendations of reference sources for culinary indexing. This questionnaire accompanies "Culinary Indexers' Reference Sources," and results of the study were presented at the 2014 Conference of the American Society for Indexing and the Culinary Indexing Special Interest Group.
Date: 2014
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earth, Rotation of (open access)

Earth, Rotation of

Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses the rotation of the earth.
Date: 2009
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emeritus College Presentation Lecture Notes (open access)

Emeritus College Presentation Lecture Notes

These lecture notes accompany a presentation titled 'This Side of the Border: The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of American Photographer Otis Aultman.' The lecture notes discuss the fifty-two presentation slides with the topics and details.
Date: February 17, 2011
Creator: Carlisle, Tara
System: The UNT Digital Library
End User Interview Questionnaire (open access)

End User Interview Questionnaire

This document is the end user interview questionnaire used for the Web-at-Risk project. It includes instructions for the interviewer, key concepts, and digital archive examples along with the questions to be asked.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Information Preservation Network (FIPNet) Comments (open access)

Federal Information Preservation Network (FIPNet) Comments

This document provides comments by Dr. Martin Halbert at the Federal Information Preservation Network (FIPNet) 2015 meeting.
Date: June 25, 2015
Creator: Halbert, Martin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Discussion Guide (open access)

Focus Group Discussion Guide

This document is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This is the focus group discussion guide used for the project. The purpose of the questions included in this guide are to create a comfortable atmosphere in which people feel valued for their participation, to establish the context for the discussion, and to provide the facilitator with information about the group.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Participant Questionnaire (open access)

Focus Group Participant Questionnaire

This document is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This is the focus group participant questionnaire and lists seven questions for participants to answer.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
From a Shed in Ojai to a Library in Denton: Reassembling and Preserving the Maynard Ferguson Collection at UNT [Presentation Notes] (open access)

From a Shed in Ojai to a Library in Denton: Reassembling and Preserving the Maynard Ferguson Collection at UNT [Presentation Notes]

Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2010 Texas Music Library Association (TMLA) Annual Meeting. These notes and the presentation discuss reassembling and preserving the Maynard Ferguson collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: October 8, 2010
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Information Connection @ the Eagle Commons Library: University of North Texas Libraries' Nomination for Depository Library of the Year (open access)

Government Information Connection @ the Eagle Commons Library: University of North Texas Libraries' Nomination for Depository Library of the Year

This document is the nomination of the University of North Texas Libraries' Government Information Connection at the Eagle Commons Library for "Depository Library of the Year 2015."
Date: August 2015
Creator: Sittel, Robbie; Halbert, Martin & Griffith, Bobby
System: The UNT Digital Library