Biography indexes reviewed (open access)

Biography indexes reviewed

Article discussing research on biography reviews and indexes.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mining Newspaper Archives

This presentation discusses mining online newspaper archives. The topics in this presentation include the types of information found in these newspapers, the technology and standards for digitizing newspapers and offering effective search and navigation, ways to search, view, and browse the newspapers and how to use the search results.
Date: February 2, 2012
Creator: Carlisle, Tara & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project (open access)

Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project

In this paper, the authors describe research led by Educopia Institute regarding the preservation needs for digitized and born-digital newspapers. The 'Chronicles in Preservation' project, builds upon previous efforts (e.g. the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program) to look more broadly at the needs of digital newspapers in all of their diverse and challenging forms. This paper conveys the findings of the first research phase, including substantive survey results regarding digital newspaper curation practices.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Schultz, Matt; Halbert, Martin & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
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
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
Appendix A: Preservation Business Model (open access)

Appendix A: Preservation Business Model

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix includes the 2010-2013 Strategic Plan which highlights the Educopia institute's strengths and achievements to date and details the strategic planning process. Specifically this strategic plan declares Educopia institute's: Mission statement, Vision, Three Critical Challenges, and Six Programmatic Goals (with objectives and strategies).
Date: March 13, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer (open access)

Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document is a report on the status of a two-phase transfer test being carried out between the MetaArchive Cooperative and Chronopolis. These tests aim to demonstrate a proof-of-concept that the MetaArchive network may use Chronopolis's data grid preservation service as an exit strategy in the event that either MetaArchive or LOCKSS becomes unsustainable in the future.
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 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

Preservation of Newspapers: Preliminary Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project

This presentation discusses the preliminary findings of the 'Chronicles in Preservation' project involving the preservation of newspapers. In this presentation, the authors describe the project background, the state of the field report, and the phase 1 findings and progress.
Date: October 4, 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Briefing the Case: Constitution Day Outreach to Campus and Community (open access)

Briefing the Case: Constitution Day Outreach to Campus and Community

Article discussing Constitution Day outreach to campuses and communities.
Date: 2012
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Portal Partner Update

This presentation was given at a dinner celebrating The Portal to Texas History. The presentation describes recent projects, discusses feedback from Portal users, describes the work of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, and provides examples of how graduate students have used The Portal to Texas History for their research.
Date: September 20, 2012
Creator: Carlisle, Tara; Krahmer, Ana & Liles, Deborah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012 (open access)

ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012

Article on the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. This article identifies major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and explores how topics have changed over time.
Date: December 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
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

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

iCAMP: Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve

This presentation discusses the iCAMP project; Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve. It discusses research data management curricula gaps, a summary of other key projects and findings, the iCAMP project aims and research methodology, gives a review of iCAMP results, and offers questions raised for the future.
Date: December 10, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive: PDF Content Analysis

This presentation discusses the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries collaborated with members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) on the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Harvest from October, 2008 to February, 2009. The project team archived 160,211,356 URIs during this collaboration, which became a research dataset for an IMLS-funded grant to investigate collection development using web archives. The project team analyzed the 10,318,073 PDFs and developed a retrieval and exploration system for collection developers interested in acquiring and developing born-digital collections from the End of Term Web Archive.
Date: December 5, 2012
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sexual Misconduct with Congregants or Parishioners: Crafting a Model Statute (open access)

Sexual Misconduct with Congregants or Parishioners: Crafting a Model Statute

Article discussing sexual misconduct with congregants or parishioners and crafting a model statute.
Date: April 12, 2012
Creator: Toben, Bradley J. B. & Helge, Kris
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Book Reviews in an Electronic Age

Poster presented at the 2012 IAMSLIC Annual Conference. This poster discusses research on book reviews in marine and aquatic journals to gain insight into the characteristics of the reviews and their value to librarians and research.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler; Heil, Kathy & Wiest, Natalie H., 1948-
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patron Driven Acquisitions: Or I Wish I Knew Then... (open access)

Patron Driven Acquisitions: Or I Wish I Knew Then...

This paper accompanies a poster presentation on patron driven acquisitions. The ups and downs of initiating and assessing a patron acquisitions program at the University of North Texas (UNT) will be highlighted. Emphasis will be placed on changing the philosophy of collection development, how to start the program (through a jobber or direct), coordinating print and electronic acquisitions processes, and assessing the first year's purchases.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Harker, Karen
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Patron Driven Acquisitions: Or I Wish I Knew Then... [Poster]

This poster discusses patron driven acquisitions. The ups and downs of initiating and assessing a patron acquisitions program at the University of North Texas (UNT) will be highlighted. Emphasis will be placed on changing the philosophy of collection development, how to start the program (through a jobber or direct), coordinating print and electronic acquisitions processes, and assessing the first year's purchases.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & 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