Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks (open access)

Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing collections and distributed preservation networks.
Date: 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & McMillan, Gail
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barriers to Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions: An Exploratory Study (open access)

Barriers to Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions: An Exploratory Study

Paper for the 2009 IS&T Archiving Conference. This paper discusses an exploratory study on barriers to adopting PREMIS in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: May 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?

This presentation discusses the costs and values of digital collections. It looks at the digital collections held at the University of North Texas (UNT) and does a cost comparison of the options based on their choices including the expenses that are related to building their digital collections.
Date: July 10, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Your Local Public Library (open access)

Collaborating with Your Local Public Library

This book chapter discusses collaborating with local public libraries.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hoffman, Starr; Downey, Annie & Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' strategies for creating digital collections and services from datasets and born digital objects and serving users outside of formal education and research.
Date: May 27, 2009
Creator: Hall, Nathan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative (open access)

Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative

This article offers a comparison of strategies and policies for building distributed digital preservation infrastructure.
Date: October 15, 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries

This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives.
Date: January 28, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit and how the system and software to create digital collections was developed. It also discusses the future plans for system and software changes in the Digital Projects Unit.
Date: May 27, 2009
Creator: Nordstrom, Kurt & Fredericks, Brandon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries

This presentation gives a basic outline of the work flow and processes involved within the Digital Projects Unit. Topics include scanning, digital preservation, and staffing.
Date: February 12, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Moore, Jeremy D.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earth, Rotation of (open access)

Earth, Rotation of

Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses the rotation of the earth.
Date: 2009
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eclipses (open access)

Eclipses

Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses eclipses.
Date: 2009
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Effective Tools for Digital Object Management

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit workflow for digitization, including organizing materials, using a Wiki project page, internal workflow, managing objects and identifiers, and using a Magick Numbering system.
Date: 2009
Creator: Moore, Jeremy D. & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions (open access)

Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This paper provides some preliminary results on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. The poster provides some preliminary results on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gender and authorship in The Indexer, 1958-2007 (open access)

Gender and authorship in The Indexer, 1958-2007

Article on gender and authorship in The Indexer from 1958 through 2007.
Date: December 2009
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks (open access)

Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

Paper contributed to the 2009 International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing ETD collections and distributed preservation networks.
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & McMillan, Gail
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks [Presentation]

This presentation addresses "Calf-Path" problems for Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) repositories, problems associated with the early ad hoc and idiosyncratic workflow patterns. This presentation also documents relatively simple principles and guidelines for such ETD programs that can greatly improve the subsequent likelihood of implementing successful distributed digital preservation programs.
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: McMillan, Gail & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
LibQual+ 2009 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

LibQual+ 2009 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries

This report contains information from the 2009 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: 2009
Creator: Association of Research Libraries
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources (open access)

Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources

Paper accompanying a poster presentation at the 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses metadata quality and a phased approach to ensuring long-term access to digital resources.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This poster discusses how an effective metadata management approach can help institutions improve consistency, clarity of lineage, and relationships to that they can better use, reuse, and integrate resources.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Presentation on issues related to metadata quality management and demonstrates a number of tools, workflows, and quality assurance mechanisms employed by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience (open access)

Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Article on metadata quality assurance and the experience of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?

This presentation briefly introduces the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and their mission. It explains the structure of the Digital Projects Unit having the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History, and discusses their metadata structure and its role in Digital Projects.
Date: March 16, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

My InfoQuest and the Handheld Librarian

This presentation discusses My InfoQuest, a service that lets you text a question to a librarian and receive a quick response on your mobile device.
Date: October 24, 2009
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library