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Escape to the Library: Building a Library Learning Escape Room for Incoming Students

This presentation details the design of an escape room as part of the "First Flight" orientation for incoming freshmen at the University of North Texas.
Date: September 16, 2016
Creator: Kincaid, Jeremy; Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Robson, Diane
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries

Presentation for the 2018 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference. This presentation describes work underway at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to design and implement interfaces and tools for analyzing metadata quality in their local metadata editing environment.
Date: September 10, 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gephi Visualization and Text-Mining with R in the Study of Chen Duxiu, a Chinese Political and Cultural Iconoclast captions transcript

Gephi Visualization and Text-Mining with R in the Study of Chen Duxiu, a Chinese Political and Cultural Iconoclast

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Anne Chao uses network visualization software and text-mining to render a more comprehensive understanding of Chen Duxiu.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Chao, Anne S.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grateful Data: Digital Humanities, Data Cleaning, and the Grateful Dead captions transcript

Grateful Data: Digital Humanities, Data Cleaning, and the Grateful Dead

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Scott Carlson discusses his efforts to teach data cleaning techniques using publicly available data related to the Grateful Dead, including data from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the Internet Archive, and the Internet Movie Database.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Carlson, Scott
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hill Archive in Practice: A Resource for the Texas Clay Exhibition and Publicaiton at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston captions transcript

The Hill Archive in Practice: A Resource for the Texas Clay Exhibition and Publicaiton at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation is part of a panel on "Collective Contributions in Creating a Digital Hybrid" discussing the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive. In this presentation, Amy Kurlander discusses using the Hill Archive to create an exhibition of 19th-century Texas pottery, and an illustrated catalogue of Bayou Bend's entire collection of over 180 Texas-made vessels.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Kurlander, Amy
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

History 9-1-1: How University of North Texas Libraries Save Newspaper Runs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Presentation for the 2018 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions International News Media Conference. This presentation describes how the Texas Digital Newspaper Program partners with other libraries and museum to preserve materials, and how this can act as a safeguard after natural disasters in the area.
Date: September 13, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holistic Collection Assessment (open access)

Holistic Collection Assessment

This report asserts that the UNT Libraries has been making efforts to address the vestiges of systemic oppression of socially and politically minoritized populations. The project team members conducted a survey and a focus group, and they consulted with an advisory group consisting of representatives from the library, student affairs, and the professorate.
Date: September 30, 2022
Creator: Byrne, Sephra; Harker, Karen; Leuzinger, Julie & Rich, Jack
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
"How do I know if it's useful if I can't even get it to open?": Assessing Information Interaction to Improve Library Collections and Services: Final Report (open access)

"How do I know if it's useful if I can't even get it to open?": Assessing Information Interaction to Improve Library Collections and Services: Final Report

This report documents the "How do I know if it's useful if I can't even get it to open?" project funded through the 2016 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the "How do I know if it's useful if I can't even get it to open?" project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Date: September 27, 2017
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin; Smith, Susan & Billings, Emily
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
imagineRio: A Diachronic Atlas of the Social and Architectural Evolution of Rio de Janeiro captions transcript

imagineRio: A Diachronic Atlas of the Social and Architectural Evolution of Rio de Janeiro

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Farès el-Dahdah and Alida C. Metcalf discuss imagineRio, a searchable atlas platform that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro over the entire history of the city, as it existed and as it was often imagined.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: el-Dahdah, Farès & Metcalf, Alida C.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Library Services for Patrons of All Abilities: Final Report (open access)

Improving Library Services for Patrons of All Abilities: Final Report

Improving Library Services for Patrons of All Abilities: Final Report summarizes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity. The project aimed to increase the awareness and mindfulness of the needs of patrons with disabilities and to improve services offered to accommodate those patrons. The project was funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant.
Date: September 30, 2019
Creator: Rowe, Jennifer
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Keynote Address: Burning Down the Tent: New Futures for Social Justice and Digital Humanities captions transcript

Keynote Address: Burning Down the Tent: New Futures for Social Justice and Digital Humanities

Video recording of a keynote presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this keynote address, Roopika Risam uses digital initiatives at Salem State University as a case study to illustrate the key practices necessary for building digital humanities communities and institutional centers that place social justice at the core of their missions.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Risam, Roopika
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Keynote Address: From I, Robot to WeRobotics: Humanitarian Robotics in Action captions transcript

Keynote Address: From I, Robot to WeRobotics: Humanitarian Robotics in Action

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This keynote address draws on real-world examples to illustrate how aerial robotics (drones) and other autonomous robotics solutions are being used in a wide range of humanitarian efforts.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Meier, Patrick
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lone Star Ink: Texas NDNP 2023 (open access)

Lone Star Ink: Texas NDNP 2023

Data management plan for the grant, "Lone Star Ink: Texas NDNP 2023."
Date: 2023-09-01/2025-08-31
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Make Your Space: Final Report (open access)

Make Your Space: Final Report

This report documents the Make Your Space project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant for The Factory Makerspace. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
Date: September 27, 2019
Creator: Hunter, Judy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Making Digital Collection Audio Visual Materials Accessible: Final Report (open access)

Making Digital Collection Audio Visual Materials Accessible: Final Report

This report documents the Making Digital Collections A/V Materials Accessible project which sought to learn about and initially address accessibility compliance issues, specifically related to A/V materials in the UNT digital collections. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
Date: September 30, 2019
Creator: Hicks, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Making Our Library Spaces More Accessible: Accessible Furniture for Sycamore Library: Final Report (open access)

Making Our Library Spaces More Accessible: Accessible Furniture for Sycamore Library: Final Report

This report details the feedback from library users and staff, collected via a survey of students with disabilities and a separate survey of library employees, highlighted a need for more accessible furniture in library spaces. The project members purchased various selections of library furniture during the grant period, and staff observed and recorded how users engaged with the new furniture. The project outcome details the recorded observations of users interacting with furniture from the team members.
Date: September 29, 2023
Creator: Rowe, Jennifer; Venner, Mary Ann & Sittel, Robbie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
More Than Pretty Pictures: Material Culture Digitally Revealed Through the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artist Archive captions transcript

More Than Pretty Pictures: Material Culture Digitally Revealed Through the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artist Archive

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation is part of a panel on "Collective Contributions in Creating a Digital Hybrid" discussing the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive. In this presentation, Margaret Culbertson provides an overview of the development of the William J. Hill Texas Artisans and Artists Archive.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Culbertson, Margaret
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Balancing Locally Curated Open Access Collections and Their Costs

Presentation for the NISO Webinar "Managing an Open Access World. Part 1: Open Access & Acquisitions. This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' attempts to curate open access collections.
Date: September 7, 2016
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Of Institutions, Initiatives, and the Importance of Regional Academic Communities: Building NYCDH captions transcript

Of Institutions, Initiatives, and the Importance of Regional Academic Communities: Building NYCDH

Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kimon Keramidas and Alex Gil discuss how the New York City Digital Humanities group enables a wide variety of communities of practice, and the importance of regional communities in facilitating the growth of new academic fields, such as digital humanities.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Keramidas, Kimon & Gil, Alex
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Panel Proposal: Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information (open access)

Panel Proposal: Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information

Panel proposal for iPRES 2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. This proposal outlines a panel discussion on the preservation of electronic government information, including a brief discussion of the need for digital preservation efforts and an overview of the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project.
Date: September 25, 2018
Creator: Sittel, Robbie; Graebner, Carla; Zarndt, Frederick; McCain, Edward; Matheson, Scott; Etkin, Cynthia et al.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information

Presentation at iPRES 2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. The presentation outlines a panel discussion on the preservation of electronic government information.
Date: September 25, 2018
Creator: Sittel, Robbie; Graebner, Carla; Zarndt, Frederick; McCain, Edward; Matheson, Scott; Etkin, Cynthia et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: Walking in the Footprints of History

Presentation for the Cedar Hill Genealogy Society. This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History can facilitate genealogical research.
Date: September 13, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Providing Inclusive Services to Transgender Customers (open access)

Providing Inclusive Services to Transgender Customers

This article describes the work of the TX-Gender Project for Libraries to provide research-based resources to help Texas libraries be safe and welcoming places for transgender visitors.
Date: September 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantifying Artist Canvas with Digital Signal Processing Tools captions transcript

Quantifying Artist Canvas with Digital Signal Processing Tools

Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Don Johnson describes and illustrates signal processing techniques used in technical examinations for art authentication, and demonstrates how these results are used in technical art history.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Johnson, Don
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library