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Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive (open access)

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Article introduces the collaboration between the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) group and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library to build a series of interconnected digital collections for various language communities. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India (open access)

Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India

Article reviewing one particular challenge to data management relevant to South Asia, which is the complexity of names (of individuals, groups, and languages). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive (open access)

Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive

Article describing a pilot project undertaken at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) which explores a collaborative archiving approach to enable language community members to tell their own stories by adding contextual information to archival materials. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL (open access)

Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL

Article on the development of a workflow process that can accommodate the range of different language depositors in the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Dale, Merrion
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Allied Program Areas and Specializations within LIS: UNT Experience

This presentation was presented as part of a panel on "The Benefits and Challenges of Allied Programs and Specializations in LIS Units" as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference. This presentation discusses the rewards and challenges of Library and Information Science (LIS) programs, with a detailed overview of LIS programs offered at the University of North Texas.
Date: February 7, 2018
Creator: Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method for Generating Numerical Values Indicative of Frequencies of Selected Features in Objects, and a Computer System Implementing the Method (open access)

Method for Generating Numerical Values Indicative of Frequencies of Selected Features in Objects, and a Computer System Implementing the Method

Patent relating to methods for generating numerical values indicative of frequencies of selected features in objects, and a computer system implementing the method.
Date: November 21, 2001
Creator: Rorvig, Mark E. & Jeong, Kitai
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library

Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses research on the current quality assurance practices in the web archiving community.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization Decisions (open access)

Examining MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization Decisions

Article examining MARC records as artifacts that reflect metadata utilization decisions.
Date: August 7, 2006
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preparing School Library Media Specialists for Resource Description and Access (RDA)

This presentation discusses preparing school library media specialists for resource description and access (RDA). In particular, the authors present the basic Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) concepts and discuss them in the context of RDA implementation. The authors provide the correlation between AACR2 and RDA, including specific examples of a variety of formats: monograph, electronic resource, AV, etc. Lastly, the authors discuss implementation options and vendor(s) interaction.
Date: November 7, 2009
Creator: Schultz-Jones, Barbara & Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film (open access)

Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film

This article discusses automating the semiotic analysis of film, including visual representation, search and retrieval, and ways of seeing.
Date: August 7, 2009
Creator: Anderson, Richard L. & O'Connor, Brian Clark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library