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Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep (open access)

Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes the preparation of archival units residing on a LOCKSS file system that have been designated for packaging and exchange with a non-LOCKSS-based preservation environment-in this case an iRODS grid-based environment.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool (open access)

Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes tools. These tools are designed to facilitate the transfer of data contained within a number of LOCKSS archival units and packaged into bags. The bags are then transferred to the iRODS grid. The user has the option of creating and sending filled bags, or holey bags. The primary tools are written in Python, and make use of the iRODS command line utilities for data transfer.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer (open access)

Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare Library collection (246 archival units measuring 1.3TB) hosted on a University of North Texas (UNT) LOCKSS cache to a storage resource hosted by Chronopolis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices (open access)

Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. The purpose of this document is to explain the PREMIS Event microservice as prototyped for the MetaArchive Cooperative, primarily from a developer's standpoint. The document will attempt to explain the purpose of the microservice, the underlying principles on which it operates, and a practical example of its usage. The MetaArchive has installed all of the components needed to deploy this microservice and looks forward to opportunities to experiment with practical implementations in future development projects.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
MetaArchive: Final Report (open access)

MetaArchive: Final Report

This report provides summary information about the goals, activities, and results of this project, focusing on January 2008-December 2011. Section One will provide a brief summary of the outcomes of the project work based on the authors' project's performance objectives. Section Two will offer a brief reiteration of the authors' project's original goals and ambitions and an in-depth discussion of the authors' findings and development activities. Section Three will describe plans for the program's continuation and its long-term impact. Section Four will provide a list of the staff who have worked on various aspects of this project during the project period.
Date: March 13, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Library Publishing Coalition Project

Presentation for the 2012 CNI Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses the Library Publishing Coalition Project.
Date: December 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Speer, Julie; Skinner, Katherine & Walters, Tyler
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The DataRes Research Project on Data Management (open access)

The DataRes Research Project on Data Management

Paper for the 2012 International iConference. This presentation discusses data management and the DataRes Project.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Moen, William E. & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

DataRes Project Briefing

Presentation for the 2012 CNI Annual Membership Meeting. This presentation provides an overview and update on the DataRes Project.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Moen, William E.; Keralis, Spencer D. C. & Stark, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The DataRes Research Project on Data Management [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2012 International iConference. This poster discusses data management and the DataRes Project.
Date: 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Moen, William E.; Stark, Shannon & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Providing the ETDs of Today for the Researchers of Tomorrow

Poster presented at the 2012 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Annual Conference discussing the ETD Lifecycle Management project, a collaborative project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Date: February 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Schultz, Matt; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Skinner, Katherine; Stark, Shannon; McMillan, Gail et al.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Providing the ETDs of Today for the Researchers of Tomorrow

Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) 2012 Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses the early findings from an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project hosted by the University of North Texas (UNT) that is researching and documenting a range of life cycle curation and preservation practices for Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Date: December 11, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cataloguing in 2012: On The Cusp Of RDA (open access)

Cataloguing in 2012: On The Cusp Of RDA

This article discusses changes in music cataloguing systems.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

FRBR/FRAD Intentions and RDA: Where are we now?

This presentation discusses Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)/ Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) Intentions and Resource Description and Access (RDA). This presentation includes information on the background and intent of FRBR, FRAD, and RDA, user tasks, and current issues.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inadvertent RDA: New Catalogers' Errors in AACR2 (open access)

Inadvertent RDA: New Catalogers' Errors in AACR2

This article discusses Resource Description and Access (RDA) and new catalogers' errors in Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2).
Date: August 17, 2012
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

DDA and STEM @ UNT: What we have learned

This presentation discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at the University of North Texas (UNT). For the Texas STEM Librarians' Conference, the author will present data and information about the pilot program, and how the Discovery Collection and the purchased titles are distributed, particularly regarding the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Is It Really That Bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems

This presentation is for a workshop and discusses a methodology for addressing full-text linking problems.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Link Resolver Testing

This excel file accompanies a workshop presentation titled 'Is it really that bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems'.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Steps for Using the Worksheets for Evaluating Link Resolvers (open access)

Steps for Using the Worksheets for Evaluating Link Resolvers

This worksheet accompanies a workshop presentation titled 'Is it really that bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems', which discusses a methodology for addressing full-text linking problems.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

What If... ? Analysis of Demand-Driven Acquisitions of E-Books at UNT

This poster discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) of e-books at UNT.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Success Of A Nation's Soccer Team: A Bellwether Regarding A Nation's Electronic Information Infrastructure, The Legal Regulations That Govern The Infrastructure, The Resulting Citizen-Trust In Its Government And Its E-Readiness In Nigeria, The DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands And The United States (open access)

The Success Of A Nation's Soccer Team: A Bellwether Regarding A Nation's Electronic Information Infrastructure, The Legal Regulations That Govern The Infrastructure, The Resulting Citizen-Trust In Its Government And Its E-Readiness In Nigeria, The DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands And The United States

This article discusses a bellwether regarding a nation's electronic information infrastructure, the legal regulations that govern the infrastructure, the resulting citizen-trust in its government and its e-readiness in seven countries.
Date: December 1, 2012
Creator: Helge, Kris
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building a Better Librarian: Why Your Work As A Librarian Begins LONG Before Your Graduate Program (open access)

Building a Better Librarian: Why Your Work As A Librarian Begins LONG Before Your Graduate Program

This articles discusses why ones work as a librarian begins long before their graduate program.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Opportunities and challenges for the 21st century FDLP

This presentation discusses research on the opportunities and challenges for the 21st century Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The authors discuss the principles of the FDLP, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), LOCKSS-USDOCS, and the University of North Texas (UNT) efforts toward digital FDLP.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Jacobs, James A.; Sears, Suzanne & Walls, David
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Problem of Data (open access)

The Problem of Data

Report on the problem of data, workflows and methodologies at a variety of academic data curation sites, and the academic milieu of library and information schools that offer instruction in data curation.
Date: August 2, 2012
Creator: Jahnke, Lori; Asher, Andrew & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] A Performer's Guide to Seventh-Century Music (open access)

[Review] A Performer's Guide to Seventh-Century Music

This article reviews the book "A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music," edited by Stewart Carter and Jeffery Kite-Powell, 2nd edition; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.
Date: 2012
Creator: Justice, Andrew
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library