This paper presents a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.

This paper provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process. This paper also contains findings specifically related to the digital newspaper and news video content.

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.

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.

This presentation discusses trends and initiatives in promoting open access and open educational resources.

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).

This paper discusses the use of digital newspaper pages through the Library of Congress database Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers as a case study to demonstrate the value of developing tools to locate non-textual content.

This paper discusses the research findings of a user experience project directly related to how people interact with newspapers on The Portal to Texas History.

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation describes the replication of a points system used by Northwestern University's Digital Media Services department to better understand lab resources and capacity within the UNT Digital Projects Lab.

Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses results from an analysis of UNT Electronic Theses and Dissertations citing URLs to items from the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses lessons learned from the UNT Libraries redesign of two digital library interfaces: The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library.

Presented for the Red River Historical and Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History, including information on search functions and available research types.

This article describes the methods and lessons learned from conducting the Rescuing Texas History mini-grant program, which serves as a model for sustainable large-scale digitization initiatives.

Presentation providing an overview of The Portal to Texas History, with examples of resources available within the repository. It specifically focuses on newspapers and how to use them for historical context and primary source information.

Presentation for the East Texas Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of how The Portal to Texas History can be used for genealogical research.

Book chapter on the Trusted Repository Audit and Checklist (TRAC) process through the lens of contextual dimensions within knowledge management, using the case study of the University of North Texas Libraries.

Presented at the 2017 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Conference. This poster describes a study of metadata quality assurance within the Texas Patents Collection of The Portal to Texas History.

Presentation for the Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Virtual Conference. This presentation provides an overview of interface design features in the metadata editing system for the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections.

Presentation for the Innovating with Metadata Virtual Conference. This presentation provides an overview of interface design features in the metadata editing system for the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections.

Presentation for the 2017 Dodging the Memory Hole Conference. This presentation provides an overview of the ingest of Texas Press Association PDFs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program at UNT Libraries.

This poster describes the development of the 3Dhotbed (3D History of the Book Education) project.

This article describes the University of North Texas Digital Projects Unit Imaging Lab's replication of the Points Process system developed by the Northwestern University Libraries' Repository and DIgital Curation Department.

Presentation for the 2018 iConference. This presentation provides data from a recent research project at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to better understand how users are discovering electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the UNT Libraries.

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the work of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Working Group, resources for preparing data, and the experiences of the Houston Public Library.