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Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections (open access)

Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections

This abstract describes the presentation "Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections," comparing two web archives of the US Federal web domain collected at the end of the Bush administration (2008) and the end of the first Obama administration (2012). This exploratory analysis tracks changes in media types, TLDs, domains, and subdomains.
Date: June 22, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Chudnov, Dan & Jacobs, James R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collecting and Preserving the Federal Web: End of Term Archive – 2008, 2012, 2016

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management as part of the panel "Big Data and Government Information." This presentation describes the work of the End of Term Archive to preserve the federal web.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quality Assurance and Evaluation of Change for Patent Metadata

Presented at the 2017 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Conference. This poster describes a study of metadata quality assurance within the Texas Patents Collection of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: October 30, 2017
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Professional Opinion vs. User Directed Digitization, Round 1

Presented at the 2017 Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Fest Conference. This lightning round presentation shares the results of a web survey of DPLA partners' methods and representation practices of scrapbooks and plans for usability studies.
Date: April 20, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machine Learning for Name Type Classification in Library Metadata (open access)

Machine Learning for Name Type Classification in Library Metadata

This paper describes a study to investigate automatic type classification using machine learning approaches.
Date: August 9, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Machine Learning for Name Type Classification in Library Metadata

Poster presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology. This poster describes a study to investigate automatic type classification using machine learning approaches.
Date: October 30, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doing 3D: Implementations and Best Practices in Applying 3D Technologies Across Higher Education

Presentation for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference, Library and Information Technology Association session. This presentation describes current methods for 3D scanning and modeling, and how this technology has been implemented through three different projects involving higher education.
Date: June 24, 2018
Creator: Rankins, Derek L.; McIntosh, Marcia; Boyer, Doug & Scates Kettler, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Archiving Practices for Linguists: UNT Digital Library

Presentation the 2018 Computational Resources on South Asian Languages Symposium. This presentation describes how linguistic resources are made accessible through the University of North Texas Libraries digital collections.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Training Games Program: A Method for Digitization Skills Refreshment and Certification

Presented at the 2016 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. This presentation provides an overview of a pilot digitization skills training program for student assistants in the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab
Date: November 8, 2016
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive--2008, 2012, 2016

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, including updates and challenges from the 2016 harvest.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Faculty Analysis and Outreach Plan for UNT Scholarly Works

This poster describes objectives of an outreach plan designed to increase the number of items and contributors for the UNT Scholarly Works collection.
Date: April 12, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela & Allison, Candace
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data Readiness and the Digital Public Library of America

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the work of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Working Group, resources for preparing data, and the experiences of the Houston Public Library.
Date: April 2018
Creator: Hiott, Judith; Park, Kristi L.; Tarver, Hannah & Duran, Albert
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods

Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Kellum, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Decision Trees for Answering User Feedback

Presentation on how feedback is handled by the University of North Texas Digital Library, including the management system, staffing resources, and some historical data. It focuses on the creation of decision trees to guide staff members through answering different types of questions and requests. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn & Coates, Maci
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation (open access)

Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation

This paper analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms – both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords – used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: December 27, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation

This poster details a study of index terms in UNT's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation collection to understand the effectiveness of terms in matching users' queries.
Date: October 16, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: The Time Machine to Find Your Ancestors

Presentation for the East Texas Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of how The Portal to Texas History can be used for genealogical research.
Date: October 14, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT Libraries Metadata Quality Interfaces captions transcript

UNT Libraries Metadata Quality Interfaces

This video provides an overview of the design features and goals of newly-developed metadata quality interfaces in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections.
Date: June 2, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Time Travel Classroom: Historic Newspapers Online [Fall 2017]

Presentation providing an overview of The Portal to Texas History, with examples of resources available within the repository. It specifically focuses on newspapers and how to use them for historical context and primary source information.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Expanding the ETD Collection to Capture More Complete Contents of Student Works

Presentation for the 2016 US Electronic Theses and Dissertation Association Conference describing the use of additional repository collections to capture supplemental works and make visible the labor of producing a thesis or dissertation.
Date: September 26, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Building an Online Academic Profile

Presentation for the Toulouse Graduate School workshop series discussing online academic profiles.
Date: October 25, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigations into the Third Dimension: 3D Scanning in UNT Libraries' Digital Collections (open access)

Investigations into the Third Dimension: 3D Scanning in UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

This report details the outcomes from a 2015 UNT Libraries Green Light to Greatness grant-funded project exploring the inclusion of 3D scanned items in UNT Libraries' digital collections.
Date: July 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at The University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at The University of North Texas Libraries

This article describes the methods and lessons learned from conducting the Rescuing Texas History mini-grant program, which serves as a model for sustainable large-scale digitization initiatives.
Date: July 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Mangum, Jacob & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on the Portal to Texas History (open access)

Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on the Portal to Texas History

This paper discusses the research findings of a user experience project directly related to how people interact with newspapers on The Portal to Texas History.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library