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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

Experiments with Metadata Quality Interfaces

This presentation provides an overview of the design features and goals of newly-developed metadata quality interfaces in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections. Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploring our Collections: The Many Colors of the UNT Digital Library

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Piloting Photogrammetry in Digital Libraries

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation focuses on photogrammetry methods used for model creation as well as metadata description, uploading, and viewing of the models in the UNT Digital Library.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata versus Full-Text: Tracking Users’ Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Seeking Behavior

Presentation for the 2018 iConference. This presentation provides data from a recent research project at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to better understand how users are discovering electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the UNT Libraries.
Date: March 26, 2018
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & 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

The Portal to Texas History: Filling In Your Story

Presented for the Red River Historical and Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History, including information on search functions and available research types.
Date: June 12, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Presentation
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

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

Think Globally, Act Locally: How Working with DPLA has Improved Our Collections

Presented at the 2015 Digital Library Federation Forum as part of the panel, "Think Globally, Act Locally: How Working with DPLA has Improved Our Collections." This presentation provides an overview of how working as an aggregator for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has changed workflows related to digital collections for The Portal to Texas History.
Date: October 28, 2015
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Presentation
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
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

Packaging Twitter Data for the Repository

Presentation within a panel on social media during the Third International Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries at the 2016 Joint Conferece for Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses the inclusion of twitter data within the UNT Data Repository.
Date: June 23, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive: The What, The Why, The How

Presentation for Data Rescue Denton. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, with a comparison of the 2008, 2012, and 2016 harvests.
Date: May 20, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Authorities: UNT Libraries Digital Collections

Presentation for the 2017 meeting of the IMLS Shareable Authorities Forum. This presentation provides an in-depth look at institutional practices regarding authorities at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: April 11, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
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
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

I am not a photographer. One librarian's journey toward understanding FADGI, image quality, and digitization best practices

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of site visits from over a dozen digitizing institutions across the country, including common tools used and best practices.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries ETD Citation Analysis Project

Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses results from an analysis of UNT Electronic Theses and Dissertations citing URLs to items from the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Klein, Janette; Harker, Karen & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

TRAIL @ UNT: Update

Presentation for the 2017 Technical report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) Annual Meeting. This presentation provides an update on the TRAIL Collection at UNT Libraries, including current metadata remediation initiatives.
Date: May 9, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Rosenbeck, Craig
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lessons Learned in Creating New Digital Libraries Interfaces

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses lessons learned from the UNT Libraries redesign of two digital library interfaces: The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Hicks, William & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers (open access)

Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers

This paper discusses the use of digital newspaper pages through the Library of Congress database Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers as a case study to demonstrate the value of developing tools to locate non-textual content.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Approaches developed to ensure accuracy and consistency of metadata for TRAIL reports

Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses metadata remediation issues within the UNT Libraries TRAIL collection focused on identifying and measuring issues related to incomplete records and creation date discrepancies.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Rosenbeck, Craig
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library