Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials (open access)

Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials

This paper discusses collaborations, best practices, and collection development for the preservation of born-digital and digitized materials.
Date: 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management (open access)

Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

Paper for the 2007 IS&T Annual Archiving Conference. This paper describes how to enhance the quality of metadata and a modular approach to digital resource lifecycle management.
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' web harvesting system organization.
Date: 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience (open access)

Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience

Paper accompanying a poster for the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Conference. Paper discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' digital libraries' implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This poster describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital libraries implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
LibQual+ 2007 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

LibQual+ 2007 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries

This report contains information from the 2007 administration of the LibQUAL+™ protocol at University of North Texas Libraries. Based on the SERVQUAL model, the purpose of the LibQUAL+® survey is to provide libraries with an objective tool to measure library service quality based on the perceptions of students, faculty, and staff. Survey results provide a library with insight into its strengths as well as areas in need of improvement.
Date: 2007
Creator: Association of Research Libraries
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Madness: Quality Issues in Metadata Management

This presentation provides an introductory discussion on metadata quality issues. It outlines factors that influence metadata quality including the resource types, local requirements, collaborators' requirements, and cost issues and addresses how to manage metadata quality.
Date: 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2007 (open access)

Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2007

This document is a brief organizational history for The Portal to Texas History for 2007. This document was used for grant submissions to state or federal funding agencies, or private foundations. This document reflects on strategic directions for the program, as well as the number of collaborative partners for the Portal, the number of historic documents in the digital library, and key project staff members.
Date: 2007
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s (open access)

The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s

This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
Date: 2007
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2007 (open access)

Preface to The Eagle Feather 2007

Introduction to the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2007
Creator: Cox, Gloria C. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas (open access)

Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas

Introduction to the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology as featured in the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2007
Creator: Rios, L. Danyel & Dessouky, Shimaa Y.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Real World Metadata Management with the University of North Texas Libraries' Metadata Analysis Tool

This presentation gives a brief introduction to the University of North Texas Libraries' digital initiatives, their collections and projects, what metadata management is, and metadata analysis tools.
Date: 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries: Adding Value in the Digital World (open access)

[Review] The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries: Adding Value in the Digital World

This article reviews the book "The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries: Adding Value in the Digital World," edited by Lesley S.J. Farmer.
Date: 2007
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Undergraduate Student Research in Anthropology (open access)

Undergraduate Student Research in Anthropology

Introduction to the special section for undergraduate research in anthropology in the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2007
Creator: Nuñez-Janes, Mariela
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
XML to Lucene to SRW (open access)

XML to Lucene to SRW

Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report documents procedures of parsing XML records into Lucene index and making those records available via SRW.
Date: February 15, 2007
Creator: Polyakov, Serhiy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Research, Rummage, and Reconnoiter: Online Exploration at The Portal to Texas History

This presentation discusses what The Portal to Texas History is and the benefits that it provides to the community and to educators. It also illustrates how to use The Portal to Texas History, shows examples of the collections, and discusses future goals.
Date: March 8, 2007
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 2/3 (open access)

Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 2/3

This report discusses the curators' evaluation of WAS release 2/3, part of the Web-at-Risk project.
Date: March 16, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital resource management. Templates, validation, controlled vocabularies, analysis tools, graphical reports, and more are explained in this presentation.
Date: March 16, 2007
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E) (open access)

Comparison of Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E)

Paper for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This paper describes examinations of various digital asset management systems' (DAMS) capabilities and functions. Evaluation is based on the documentation relating to each package.
Date: March 21, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Polyakov, Serhiy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the Arousal System Contribute to Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences? A Summary and Response (open access)

Does the Arousal System Contribute to Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences? A Summary and Response

Article acknowledging the viability and potential value of the hypothesis underlying articles suggesting a relationship between near-death experiences (NDEs) and the body's arousal system, but also identifying substantial weaknesses in both the presented lines of evidence and the studies.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Long, Jeffrey & Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Installation and Testing of Selected Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E) (open access)

Installation and Testing of Selected Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E)

Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report contains installation procedures for the Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) identified as the most suitable candidates for the deployment by the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative (THDI) partners.
Date: April 3, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Polyakov, Serhiy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

JSTOR: Preservation, Storage, Access

This presentation discusses JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive. The author discusses the JSTOR mission of preservation, storage, and access.
Date: April 11, 2007
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archiving Web-published Materials (open access)

Archiving Web-published Materials

Handout accompanying a presentation for the 2007 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference on the Web-at-Risk project and the Web Archiving Service (WAS).
Date: April 13, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development: Born-Digital and Digitized Materials [Presentation]

This presentation discusses the phases of web collection development, challenges with web archives, and the need and benefit for preserving web materials.
Date: April 20, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library