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STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks (open access)

STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks

This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Levow, Gina-Anne; Bender, Emily M.; Littell, Patrick; Howell, Kristen; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Crowgey, Joshua et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Influencing Knowledge Management Use in Technology Enterprises in Southern United States (open access)

Factors Influencing Knowledge Management Use in Technology Enterprises in Southern United States

This paper from the International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings investigates the factors influencing with the Knowledge Management use process in Information Technology enterprises in the Southern United States.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing International School Library Guidelines to Make a Difference: A Case Study (open access)

Developing International School Library Guidelines to Make a Difference: A Case Study

This paper details the process of developing the IFLA/UNESCO School Library Guidelines for approval from the IFLA Governing board, with a discussion of challenges and lessons learned during this undertaking.
Date: April 7, 2016
Creator: Schultz-Jones, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library
A White Paper on Outcomes Evaluation: Concepts, Strategies, and Practical Applications (open access)

A White Paper on Outcomes Evaluation: Concepts, Strategies, and Practical Applications

This white paper introduces evaluation concepts and describes outcome-based evaluation. The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) logic model is described in the context of developing a program evaluation plan. Four case studies illustrate how outputs, outcomes and indicators can be used to produce programs results.
Date: December 10, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E.; Simpson, Carol; Mason, Florence & Wetherbee, Louella
System: The UNT Digital Library
Needs Assessment Study of Texas Academic, Public, and School Libraries: Project Plan (open access)

Needs Assessment Study of Texas Academic, Public, and School Libraries: Project Plan

This document outlines the project plan for the Needs Assessment Study of Texas Academic, Public, and School Libraries.
Date: April 1, 2002
Creator: Moen, William E.; Simpson, Carol; Mason, Florence & Wetherbee, Louella
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploration of Metadata Change in a Digital Repository (open access)

Exploration of Metadata Change in a Digital Repository

Paper for the 2015 International iConference. This paper discusses a study exploring metadata change in a digital repository.
Date: March 25, 2015
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Kizhakkethil, Priya
System: The UNT Digital Library

Towards Building a Collection of Web Archiving Research Articles

Paper for the 2014 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This paper discusses building a collection of web archiving research articles.
Date: November 3, 2014
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda & Caragea, Cornelia
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Innovative Partnership to Recruit and Educate Biomedical Information Professionals (open access)

An Innovative Partnership to Recruit and Educate Biomedical Information Professionals

Article on an innovative partnership to recruit and educate biomedical information professionals.
Date: 2005
Creator: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-; Hannigan, Gale; Philbrick, Jodi; Pan, Xuequn (Della) & O'Neill, Marty
System: The UNT Digital Library
The "Triple-P" Domains of Ethical Behavior for Higher Education (open access)

The "Triple-P" Domains of Ethical Behavior for Higher Education

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses the "Triple-P" domains of ethical behavior: (1) the understanding of privacy ethics, (2) regards to piracy and plagiarism, and (3) pilfering and profiteering.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Mayes, Robin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation Through the Use of a Virtual Lab (open access)

Teaching Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation Through the Use of a Virtual Lab

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses teaching tools, applications, and infrastructure for digital curation through the use of a virtual lab.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Helsing, Joseph; Lewis, Paulette & Warga, Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access (open access)

Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access

This paper reports an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA).
Date: October 2008
Creator: Chen, Jiangping & Li, Fei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward a Unified Retrieval Outcome Analysis Framework for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (open access)

Toward a Unified Retrieval Outcome Analysis Framework for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

This paper proposes a Retrieval Outcome Analysis Framework, or ROA Framework, to systematically evaluate retrieval performance of Cross-Language Information Retrieval systems.
Date: 2005
Creator: Chen, Jiangping
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access? (open access)

What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access?

This paper accompanies a poster presented at the 2010 Library Research Seminar V Conference. This paper and the accompanying poster discuss what transaction log data tells us about collection-level subject access.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Curation in the Academic Library Job Market (open access)

Digital Curation in the Academic Library Job Market

Paper for the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This paper discusses digital curation in the academic library job market.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Warga, Edward & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers (open access)

Developing an Alternative Approach for Interoperability Testing of Library Z39.50 Servers

Paper describing a plan of work to develop and test an alternative approach for interoperability testing. This approach builds on the conceptual and technical infrastructure developed during the Z-Interop Project.
Date: March 30, 2004
Creator: Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Extensible Approach to Interoperability Testing: The Use of Special Diagnostic Records in the Context of Z39.50 and Online Library Catalogs (open access)

An Extensible Approach to Interoperability Testing: The Use of Special Diagnostic Records in the Context of Z39.50 and Online Library Catalogs

Paper discussing the use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs.
Date: 2005
Creator: Moen, William E.; Hammer, Sebastian; Taylor, Mike; Thomale, Jason & Yoon, JungWon
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT at TREC 2004: Question Answering Combining Multiple Evidences (open access)

UNT at TREC 2004: Question Answering Combining Multiple Evidences

This paper discusses Question Answering (QA) combining multiple evidences.
Date: 2004
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Ge, He; Wu, Yan & Jiang, Shikun
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images (open access)

UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images

This paper presents the results of the team of the University of North Texas in the Wikipedia image retrieval track of Image-CLEF-2010.
Date: September 2010
Creator: Ruiz, Miguel E.; Chen, Jiangping; Pasupathy, Karthikeyan; Chin, Pok & Knudson, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT 2005 TREC QA Participation: Using Lemur as IR Search Engine (open access)

UNT 2005 TREC QA Participation: Using Lemur as IR Search Engine

This paper reports the authors' TREC 2005 QA participation. The authors' QA system Eagle QA developed last year was expanded and modified for this year's QA experiments. Particularly, the authors used Lemur 4.1 as the Information Retrieval (IR) Engine this year to find documents that may contain answers for the test questions from the document collection. The authors' result shows Lemur did a reasonable job on finding relevant documents. But certainly there is room for further improvement.
Date: 2005
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Yu, Ping & Ge, He
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chinese Information Retrieval Using Lemur: NTCIR-5 CIR Experiments at UNT (open access)

Chinese Information Retrieval Using Lemur: NTCIR-5 CIR Experiments at UNT

This paper discusses Chinese information retrieval using Lemur, a freely available information retrieval toolkit.
Date: December 2005
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Li, Rowena & Li, Fei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chinese QA and CLQA: NTCIR-5 QA Experiments at UNT (open access)

Chinese QA and CLQA: NTCIR-5 QA Experiments at UNT

This paper describes our participation in the NTCIR-5 CLQA task.
Date: December 2005
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Li, Rowena; Yu, Ping; Ge, He; Chin, Pok; Li, Fei et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instructional Design Strategies for Teaching Technological Courses Online (open access)

Instructional Design Strategies for Teaching Technological Courses Online

This paper describes different instructional design strategies for teaching computer technological courses online.
Date: September 28, 2011
Creator: Chen, Jiangping & Knudson, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
iCAMP: Building Digital Information Curation Curriculum (open access)

iCAMP: Building Digital Information Curation Curriculum

Paper for the 2012 International iConference. This paper discusses the iCAMP (Information: Curate, Archive, Manage, and Preserve) project and building digital information curation curriculum.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Moen, William E.; Kim, Jeonghyun; Warga, Edward; Wakefield, Jenny S. & Halbert, Martin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata (open access)

Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata

This paper discusses assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata. This paper reports on a content analysis of collection records in an aggregation of cultural heritage collections.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Palmer, Carole L.; Jackson, Amy S. & Han, Myung-Ja
System: The UNT Digital Library