Update on Digitization at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries

This presentation gives an update on the digital collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in their Digital Collection and The Portal to Texas History in 2008.
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

No, You Still Can’t Come to the Cookout: Blurred Lines of Race Humor in Digital Media

Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation examines the circulation of racist humor within the Internet, one that continues offline patterns of racist expressions.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Brianni
System: The UNT Digital Library

Better Practices for Making a Digital Monograph

Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses the practical work of digital scholarship and the considerations necessary for scholars interested in composing or evaluating digital scholarship.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Helms, Jason
System: The UNT Digital Library

Towards a Groszian Understanding of Bodies in Videogames

Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses how feminist media scholar Elizabeth Grosz's extensive vocabulary on bodies can be used to reconstitute how bodies are perceived and created in modern triple-A videogame production.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Jackson, Joshua
System: The UNT Digital Library

Keywords American, Art, Museum: Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art

Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, and the museum's promotional search engine optimization practices.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Zapata, Claudia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Race Conditions: Object-Oriented Programming Methodologies and Perpetrator-Oriented Racism

Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation describes how the transition from procedural to object-oriented programming mirrors the Supreme Court's shift from a victim-oriented to a perpetrator-oriented perspective of racism.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Mordahl, Austin
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Keynote] Counting the Dead: Consent, Quantum Media, & How We Come to Matter

Keynote presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses how the practice of counting the dead is deeply entangled with the long histories the paperwork and media technologies used to certify and regulate the lives of U.S. citizens and expresses and shapes how the nation-state values different lives and bodies.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Wernimont, Jacqueline
System: The UNT Digital Library

Re-embodying Data: Encountering the "forgotten pandemic" of 1918

Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses an installation to "re-embody" pandemic data, including the technologies, methods, and data used to construct the encounter.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Grumbach, Elizabeth & Wernimont, Jacqueline
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preserving the Archival Histories of Space Flight

Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses the data management strategies and practices for building an archive for space history.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Coopersmith, Jonathan
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing an Academic Library Professional Development Program

This presentation discusses assessment methods for UNT Libraries' professional development program.
Date: April 22, 2016
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; O'Toole, Erin & Harker, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-published Monographs: Project Meerkat

Slides presented during the panel “Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-published Monographs” at the Library Publishing Forum 2018. This presentation describes the impetus behind Project Meerkat, a publishing analytics data alliance.
Date: May 22, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Broadening access to books on Texas and Oklahoma

Presented at the Humanities Open Book Project Directors Meeting at the National Endowment for the Humanities Headquarters. This lightning presentation contains an overview of the grant-funded project.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

So Many Bits, It Hertz: Digital Recordings and Sound Quality

Presentation for the 2015 International Association of Music Libraries Annual Conference.This presentation discusses digital recordings and sound quality.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: Justice, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library

Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly. This presentation discusses current quality assurance practices in web archiving.
Date: May 22, 2014
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda; Phillips, Mark Edward & Ko, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library

Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas [Presentation]

Presentation on how the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit established their metadata guidelines and how the guidelines work to support The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas Digital Library.
Date: October 22, 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hidden Legacies: Issues in Preserving and Archiving Unofficial Live Recordings

Presentation for Association for Recorded Sound Collections 53rd Annual Conference 2019. This presentation discusses about unofficial live show recordings, aka bootlegs, concert tapes, RoIOs, etc. The presentation answers various questions including, what is the collection, why is it important, how is it currently stored and classified, among others.
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Partnership Born of Urgency and Civic Responsibility: Preserving Access to Government Websites Through the CyberCemetery

This presentation discusses preserving access to government websites through the CyberCemetery. It includes information about what the CyberCemetery is, its purpose, the development, archival process, technical details, users by country, types of content, and using the CyberCemetery.
Date: April 22, 2010
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
System: The UNT Digital Library

Promoting Excellent Service: Establishing Core Competencies in Training Student Employees

This presentation provides an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries Access Services training plan for student employees.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh; Knox, Briana & Peebles, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library

Charting New Territory: Mapping the UNT Libraries Collections

Presentation given at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference on July 22, 2016. This presentation describes the components and creation of the Collection Map, a collection assessment tool developed by the University of North Texas.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluation of a Bestsellers Leasing Program in an Academic Library

This presentation provides an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries assessment of a book leasing program for popular fiction and non-fiction items.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Condrey, Coby
System: The UNT Digital Library

Making MINES for Libraries Work for Your Library

This presentation provides an overview of the use of MINES for Libraries® at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Harker, Karen & Parwani, Priya B.
System: The UNT Digital Library

A cooperative for big data in scholarly publishing

Presented at Data Power 2017. This presentation describes the vision for a cooperative of stakeholder institutions called the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.
Date: June 22, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Establishing a Smooth Video Production Workflow

Presentation covers a 5-step video creation workflow to produce educational videos. It was presented at the 2021 Virtual Conference of the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) held on April 20-23, 2021.
Date: April 22, 2021
Creator: Roy, Meranda M.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference.This presentation focuses on the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library