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Infrastructure for the UNT Digital Library

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit workflows, how they overcame challenges, and how the use of established models and standards helped them find solutions to the workflow. It presents the editing system created for the Digital Projects Unit, the organizational structure for each object, and identifiers.
Date: August 2, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Storage 101: The Basics

This presentation discusses storage options for digital content, questions to ask when planning, and things to consider for storing and digitizing data.
Date: February 5, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGENE Project (open access)

Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGENE Project

This paper discusses applying user-centered design principles to redesign The Portal to Texas History, as part of the IOGENE project at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives

This presentation is a brief outline of the End-of-Term archiving project done as a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas Libraries, and the California Digital Library.
Date: May 3, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive (open access)

Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive

This paper discusses open source components, standard conformance, and UCD as it relates to The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Managing and Enhancing an Established Digital Archive

This presentation is about The Portal to Texas History and the IOGENE project and the strategies and steps involved in their development.
Date: 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Leveraging the Results of NDNP: the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

This presentation discusses how the University of North Texas Libraries and The Portal to Texas History leveraged the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and created the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP).
Date: 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Environment Programme 2009 Annual Report (open access)

United Nations Environment Programme 2009 Annual Report

The 2009 UNEP annual report provides detailed information about various UNEP activities during the year of 2009, including analysis of the outcome of the Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference. The report emphasizes the need to mobilize behind climate action in 2009 and to continue to ensure that environmental sustainability is recognized both as a legitmate goal in itself and as a means to achieving all other development objectives including the Millennium Development Goals.
Date: February 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future (open access)

Winds of Change: East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future

This report outlines the strategic direction of the energy sector to meet its growing energy demand in an environmentally-sustainable manner over the next two decades, and presents a pathway of policy frameworks and financing mechanisms to get there. This study found that large-scale deployment of energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies can simultaneously stabilize East Asia’s CO2 emissions by 2025 and significantly improve the local environment and enhance energy security, without compromising economic growth.
Date: May 2010
Creator: World Bank
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
100% Renewable Energy - and Beyond - for Cities (open access)

100% Renewable Energy - and Beyond - for Cities

This booklet sketches out the options and the processes that have started to transform urban energy systems. The document promotes carbon neutrality for communities and cities and argues that even the largest cities can make this transition, drawing on renewable energy supplies from within their boundaries, as well as from farther away. In addition to assuring urban energy security, these developments can also stimulate the growth of a very large new green economy sector.
Date: March 2010
Creator: Droege, Peter
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (open access)

A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation

This text is a collection of essays that gives an overview of the reasons for considering distributed digital preservation (a system which maintains copies of digital objects in multiple geographic locations) as well as considerations for implementing this kind of digital preservation. According to the back cover, "Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network."
Date: 2010
Creator: MetaArchive Cooperative
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library