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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
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
Discovering Texas Material Culture in the Briscoe Center for American History
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, Lynn Bell discusses the three year period in which Fellows surveyed over 11,000 objects and archival items to identify and photograph those that would contribute to the Hill Archive's mission.
Date:
September 23, 2016
Creator:
Bell, Lynn
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Recital Preservation: Before They Fade Away
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Dara Flinn discusses issues in planning and executing a preservation project with Fondren Library and the Shepherd School of Music for digitizing audio materials.
Date:
September 22, 2016
Creator:
Flinn, Dara
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
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
Workshop: Digital Literacy in the College
Video recording of a workshop presentation at the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this workshop, Ron Thomas demonstrates an active-learning exercise wherein students create a presentation using an allusion-plus-image format in order to gloss allusions form the writer's text with images from the web.
Date:
September 22, 2016
Creator:
Thomas, Ron
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Digital Inputs, Cultural Outputs: Collaborative, Online Tools for Education, Research and Publication in the History of Art and Cultural Heritage Preservation
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, John North Hopkins presents the Collections Analysis Collaborative, an initiative of the Menil Collection and Rice University.
Date:
September 22, 2016
Creator:
Hopkins, John North
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Digital Facsimiles: the "Electronic Vesalius" and archival remediation
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation consists of a panel on a collaboration between the Texas Medical Center's Rare Book Room and McGovern Historical Center, the Rice Oshman Engineering and Design Kitchen, and Rice's Fondren Library and Humanities Research Center to create the "Electronic Vesalius."
Date:
September 23, 2016
Creator:
Mulligan, John Connor; Jin, Ying; Wettergreen, Matthew & Rasich, Ben
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Welcome Address
Welcome address for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference by the Conference Director, Spencer Keralis, and Host Welcome Addresses from Rice University by Vice Provost Sara Lowman and the Humanities Research Center Director, Farès el-Dahdah.
Date:
September 22, 2016
Creator:
Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Lowman, Sara & el-Dahdah, Farès
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
ARTECA: Connecting Creative Communities
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation consists of a panel on a collaboration between MIT Press, Leonardo/ISAST and UT Dallas to create ARTECA, a digital scholarly aggregator. ARTECA serves as an online portal that supports the creation and dissemination of digital scholarly materials that explore the intersection of arts, science and technology.
Date:
September 23, 2016
Creator:
Malina, Roger F.; Nazir, Cassini & Lilly, Chaz
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
(Re)conceptualizing Research with Native Peruvian Artists in the Age of Digital Humanities
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Amanda Alexander discusses an ongoing research project with a Native Peruvian artist who works to preserve and keep alive a traditional type of pottery called a huaco.
Date:
September 22, 2016
Creator:
Alexander, Amanda
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Real Talk: Connecting Classrooms and Public Archives
Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation consists of a panel of representatives from Houston institutions, with lightning talks on their collaborations between LGBTQ archives and university classrooms, and a group discussion on topics raised by the lightning talks.
Date:
September 23, 2016
Creator:
Criscione, Larry; Reeves, Judy; Riedel, Brian; Mulligan, John Connor & Sewell, Jeanette
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
X Marks the Spot: Creating and Managing a Single Service Point to Improve Customer Service and Maximize Resources
This article describes how merging service points in an academic library is an opportunity to improve customer service and utilize staffing resources more efficiently.
Date:
June 8, 2016
Creator:
Venner, Mary Ann & Keshmiripour, Setareh
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bringing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) to the Point of Use: Metadata vs. Full-Text Controversy
This presentation discusses the increase of URLS within electronic theses and dissertations at UNT, and a comparison of queries through metadata and full-text discovery.
Date:
September 30, 2016
Creator:
Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Revisiting Copyright and Scholarly Communication Issues while Promoting Open Educational Resources (OER)
This presentation discusses trends and initiatives in promoting open access and open educational resources.
Date:
December 16, 2016
Creator:
Helge, Kris & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Promoting Positive Changes with Assessment in a Public Services Setting
This presentation discusses the positive aspects of change using the case study of UNT Libraries' Public Services setting, as well as how public services impacts students, faculty, and community members.
Date:
October 21, 2016
Creator:
Hargis, Carol & Venner, Mary Ann
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation
This paper analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms – both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords – used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date:
December 27, 2016
Creator:
Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Paper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
It Starts at the Top: Developing a Motivational Leadership Style That Moves Mountains
This presentation describes a variety of successful changes within the University of North Texas Libraries' Access Services such as re-organizing the structure of the department, establishing new services, and accomplishing projects. Stages of change from idea to implementation and the facilitation of communication throughout the process will be discussed.
Date:
November 17, 2016
Creator:
Keshmiripour, Setareh & Venner, Mary Ann
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Bibliographic Access to Dissertations
This article discusses a study of dissertation cataloging practices of Association of Research Libraries academic libraries to discern how the libraries provide access to subjects as well as to names of academic departments and advisors.
Date:
December 12, 2016
Creator:
Sassen, Catherine
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
News, new roles & preservation advocacy: Moving Libraries into action
This paper discusses how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. It delves into some of the reasons why this convent is not yet preserved, and examines the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type.
Date:
June 7, 2016
Creator:
Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine; Wilson, Marc & Zarndt, Frederick
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation
This poster details a study of index terms in UNT's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation collection to understand the effectiveness of terms in matching users' queries.
Date:
October 16, 2016
Creator:
Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Arranging the Pieces: A Survey of Library Practices Related to a Tabletop Game Collection
This article discusses results from an online survey of 119 libraries to explore collection development, cataloguing, processing, and circulation practices for tabletop game collections in libraries.
Date:
November 13, 2016
Creator:
Slobuski, Teresa; Robson, Diane & Bentley, P. J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Are print books REALLY dead? Exploring the relationship between technology acceptance and the use of e-books at a large research university
This presentation discusses a study of undergraduate students at the University of North Texas to understand factors related to students' intent to use and actual use of e-books.
Date:
November 21, 2016
Creator:
Rodriguez, Allyson; Billings, Emily & Smith, Susan
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library