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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enemies of History: Murderers of the Past

This presentation is about a workshop for high school students. The workshop focused on preservation and how it relates to the study of history.
Date: April 16, 2008
Creator: Downey, Annie; May, Frances A.; Mears, Michelle M. & Smith, Jon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Teaching Information Literacy: A Performance Based Cycle

This presentation discusses teaching information literacy and a project to assess student searching skills. It includes background information on the project, discusses the performance cycle of information literacy, active teaching, learning, and assessing, student navigation skills, and software and strategies.
Date: December 2007
Creator: Downey, Annie & Byerly, Gayla
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History

This presentation presents information about The Portal to Texas History, a digital gateway to cultural heritage collections in Texas. This presentation discusses the IOGENE project, the research processes involved in developing The Portal to Texas History, the research with genealogists, and shows illustrations of the contents of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: October 24, 2009
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library

At Risk: Capturing and Preserving Web Resources

This presentation discusses the Web-at-Risk project and the issues related to capturing and preserving web resources. It introduces collection development issues, organization and metadata issues, and the findings that support the needs for a web archiving service.
Date: June 12, 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library

User-Centered Design for Humanities Collections within a Digital Library

This presentation discusses the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit at the University of North Texas (UNT) and the IOGENE project. There are illustrated examples and discussion about the challenges faced with the IOGENE user studies.
Date: October 17, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Footholds and Foundations: Setting Freshman on the Path to Lifelong Learning

This presentation discusses an assessment in which the researchers collaborated with a software developer to create an online survey form for college freshman. This assessment was conducted to determine what skills college freshman have in relation to the libraries and research.
Date: 2006
Creator: Byerly, Gayla; Downey, Annie & Gosnell, Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library

Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative

This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' initiatives to ensure long-term access to various digital resources.
Date: 2002
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?

This presentation discusses the costs and values of digital collections. It looks at the digital collections held at the University of North Texas (UNT) and does a cost comparison of the options based on their choices including the expenses that are related to building their digital collections.
Date: July 10, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploring the Texas Revolution Online through The Portal to Texas History

This presentation illustrates examples of items held in The Portal to Texas History collection and how these works contribute to learning about the history of the Texas Revolution.
Date: April 19, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensuring Universal Access for the Global Information Flow: Responding to the Demands of Scholarship in the Digital Age

This presentation was presented in Session 6.4 Reports of Current Research (Juried Papers), at the 2005 ALISE Conference. It summarizes current situations and developing trends in information technologies. Africa is used as a case to illustrate how local policies have played important roles in the process of information globalization.
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Man on the Beat: John Gilliland and The Pop Chronicles

Presentation for the 2008 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Annual Conference. This presentation discusses John Gilliland and The Pop Chronicles.
Date: March 28, 2008
Creator: Justice, Andrew & Thorn, Jonathan
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries

This presentation discusses how The Portal to Texas History is harnessing technology to enable collaboration with small museums and libraries. This presentation includes information on the workflows, planning, metadata elements, and goals for the Portal project.
Date: 2005
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access

Presentation for the 2008 Depository Library Council Annual Meeting. This presentation outlines the history, tool building, partner activities and future work for a collaborative project between the University of North Texas, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Date: October 21, 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas

This presentation discusses the preservation and digitization of content at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include a background of the digital initiatives at the UNT Libraries, the organization of the digital initiatives, the collaborative projects, the collections held by the UNT Libraries, and areas of research.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library