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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 (open access)

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
Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site (open access)

Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site

This paper introduces the concept of web site usability, provides a brief introduction to the techniques, offers examples from two “real life” studies that show how the techniques of formal usability studies, focus groups, and card sorts can be used and offers tips and tricks for employing these techniques.
Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Bibliographic Access to Dissertations (open access)

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

Web Site Usability Testing at the Libraries

This presentation from the 2003 Texas Library Association Conference discusses the purpose and procedures for conducting website usability testing.
Date: 2003
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth; Byerly, Gayla & May, Frances A.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Providing a Complete Menu: Using Competitive Usability in a Home Page Usability Study (open access)

Providing a Complete Menu: Using Competitive Usability in a Home Page Usability Study

This article presents results from the task-based testing and focus group portion of a usability study on the University of North Texas Libraries' website in addition to three other academic library web sites to examine the effects of multiple design elements and styles on the participants' results and to provide additional insight into user preferences.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Medical Humanities: An Applied Media Studies Community of Practice captions transcript

Digital Medical Humanities: An Applied Media Studies Community of Practice

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Kirsten Ostherr draws on examples from the Medical Media Arts Lab to show how digital medical humanities cultivates 21st century communication skills for future health professionals.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Ostherr, Kirsten
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Art + Recovery in the Digital Humanities captions transcript

Art + Recovery in the Digital Humanities

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, xtine burrough and Sabrina Starnaman discuss their participatory installation, a creative recovery effort focusing on the 1861 short story Life in the Iron Mills.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Burrough, Xtine & Starnaman, Sabrina
Object Type: Video
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
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
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
Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings captions transcript

Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Jeremy Berg discusses the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
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
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
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
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
Discovering Texas Material Culture in the Briscoe Center for American History captions transcript

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 captions transcript

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 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
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
Workshop: Digital Literacy in the College captions transcript

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