OAI-ORE

This Tech Talk presentation discusses how the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) are used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library. OAI-ORE define the standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.
Date: January 20, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Experience Talks: Post-Digitization Quality Control Strategies and Tools

This presentation discusses strategies for quality control during the post-digitization phase.
Date: August 5, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Challenges in Web Archiving UNT Perspective

This presentation discusses making Web archives more usable for libraries, building digital library collections from Web content, and understanding how Web archives should fit into traditional library metrics.
Date: July 21, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Infrastructure for the UNT Digital Library

This presentation discusses creating workflows for digitization projects as well as data models and descriptive metadata schema. It describes the processes of creating a workable model to digitize objects.
Date: July 15, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

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
Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation (open access)

Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation

This paper will examine ongoing work between two major preservation systems, the Chronopolis Digital Preservation Program, and the MetaArchive Cooperative.
Date: September 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chronopolis, University of North Texas, MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation

This presentation discusses how preservation systems can share objects and specifically a collaboration between Chronopolis, MetaArchive, and the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: September 21, 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Curation: Curation Micro-services approach to Building Repositories

This presentation discusses digital curation, preservation and stewardship. The author provides information on Curation Micro-Services.
Date: November 8, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update

This presentation provides an update on three projects the Texas Digital Library Metadata Working Group (TDL-MWG) is working on. These include designing a metadata information website, creating best practices for images and datasets, and creating metadata courses for Texas Digital Library (TDL) training.
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Davis, Jee-Hyun; Thomale, Jason; Chen, Mingyu; Mercer, Holly; Hazzard, Jeanne et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Collection Development Policy: From Documenting Content to Documenting Process

Poster presented at the 2010 Document Academy Annual Meeting. This poster discusses digital collection development policies and documenting content and processes.
Date: 2010
Creator: Hall, Nathan; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Good" Digital Collections

This Tech Talks presentation covers the principles that apply to "good" digital collections and analyzes how objects, metadata, and the user interface together create the users' experience of a collection.
Date: January 27, 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

jEdit

This Tech Talks presentation discusses the jEdit text editor. jEdit is an open-source text editor available online which is used within the Digital Projects Lab for programming and for editing XML metadata files. In this Tech Talk, Metadata Librarian Hannah Tarver describes some of the ways that jEdit can be customized to make editing quicker and easier for documents that use mark-up languages or plain text.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
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

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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at the University of North Texas (open access)

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

Paper on how metadata supports the cycle of system improvements at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Tools and Workflows at the University of North Texas

This presentation illustrates the metadata tools, workflows, and quality control measures at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: June 27, 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

7.5 Minute Quadrangle Project

Presentation for the 2010 Depository Library Council Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses the 7.5 minute quadrangle project by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit and gives the background, goals, processes, challenges, and next steps.
Date: October 18, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Digital Library Storage Architectures for Digital Collections

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library Program and possible solutions for sudden growth in digital content.
Date: September 27, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Integration of ETD into Topical Digital Library Collections: Facilitating ETD Use and Reuse

Poster presented at the 2010 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Conference. This poster discusses the integration of ETDs into topical digital library collections and facilitating ETD use and reuse.
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
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
Exploration of Adoption of Preservation Metadata in Cultural Heritage Institutions (open access)

Exploration of Adoption of Preservation Metadata in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Paper presented at the 2010 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses preservation metadata and its role in the challenges of long-term access.
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library