Review of the Tools and Software to Support Interoperability (open access)

Review of the Tools and Software to Support Interoperability

Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report reviews the tools and software to support interoperability between digital repositories and the Library of Texas federated search. This review will be used for providing recommendations for best practices and workflows for installing software and tools onto Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) and selected databases that support search interoperability.
Date: July 15, 2006
Creator: Polyakov, Serhiy; Moen, William E. & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Z39.50 Interoperability: Z39.50 Profiles and Testbeds for Library Applications (open access)

Improving Z39.50 Interoperability: Z39.50 Profiles and Testbeds for Library Applications

An operating assumption for the networked environment is that many different information systems need to interoperate for users to successfully discover and retrieve distributed resources. Meaningful interoperability is often elusive. In the library community, the Z39.50 standard protocol (ISO 23950/ANSI/NISO Z39.50) for information retrieval promised seamless and transparent networked access to library resources. Too often, the reality has not lived up to the promise. This paper discusses two efforts that offer solution paths to Z39.50 interoperability.
Date: August 2001
Creator: Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Metadata Utilization: An Analysis of MARC Content Designation Use (open access)

Assessing Metadata Utilization: An Analysis of MARC Content Designation Use

This paper discusses metadata utilization. This paper reports results of an analysis of a large sample of MARC 21 bibliographic records.
Date: 2003
Creator: Moen, William E. & Benardino, Penelope
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Access: A New Paradigm for Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Access (open access)

Open Access: A New Paradigm for Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Access

The notion of open access to scholarly information is not new. In recent years, however, it has taken on prominence within the broader context of scholarly work, communication, and publishing. This brief paper intends to highlight and clarify key aspects of open access to assist UNTs initial discussions of the utility of open access for UNT researchers and scholars.
Date: April 28, 2009
Creator: Moen, William E. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
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
High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data (open access)

High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data

This two-year project will advance understanding of the workflow and processes best able to increase access to and use of digitized biological collection metadata within the stakeholder communities comprised of biologists, natural history museum collections managers, biodiversity standards groups, and the library and information science community.
Date: 2008
Creator: Moen, William E.; Best, Jason H. & Neill, Amanda K.
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
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
An Issue of Granularity: Decomposing Redesigned Courses on Different Levels of Details (open access)

An Issue of Granularity: Decomposing Redesigned Courses on Different Levels of Details

This paper discusses a project to redesign courses on different levels of details. The Texas Course Redesign Project initiated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) aims to develop and distribute instructional resources to improve student learning outcomes and lower the costs of higher education.
Date: 2008
Creator: Li, Fei; Polyakov, Serhiy; Barnes, Svetlana; Moen, William E. & Xu, Hong
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content (open access)

A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content

This paper describes the design and development of a learning object repository for a new statewide higher education initiative.
Date: 2008
Creator: Barnes, Svetlana; Li, Fei; Polyakov, Serhiy & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning from Artifacts: Metadata Utilization Analysis (open access)

Learning from Artifacts: Metadata Utilization Analysis

This paper describes the MARC Content Designation Utilization Project, which is examining a very large set of metadata records as artifacts of the library cataloging enterprise. This is the first large-scale examination of descriptive metadata utilization. Presents an overview of study activities and suggests the study's significance to the broader use of metadata in digital libraries.
Date: 2006
Creator: Moen, William E.; Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-; Eklund, Amy; Polyakov, Serhiy & Snyder, Gregory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping the Interoperability Landscape for Networked Information Retrieval (open access)

Mapping the Interoperability Landscape for Networked Information Retrieval

This paper discusses interoperability of networked information. Interoperability is a fundamental challenge for networked information discovery and retrieval. Often treated monolithically in the literature, interoperability is multifaceted and can be analyzed into different types and levels. This paper discusses an approach to map the interoperability landscape for networked information retrieval as part of an interoperability assessment research project.
Date: June 2001
Creator: Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Potential for Web Services to Enhance Information Access to Legacy Data: An Exploratory Study and Application (open access)

The Potential for Web Services to Enhance Information Access to Legacy Data: An Exploratory Study and Application

This paper presents an overview of an exploratory research project to identify, describe, and investigate the applicability of the Web services (WS) approach to access legacy data.
Date: February 16, 2005
Creator: Oguz, Fatih & 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