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[Handout to Accompany Poster on Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports] (open access)

[Handout to Accompany Poster on Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports]

Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort." In includes a brief overview of the project, a list of hardware and software used in the project, and a detailed list of the steps for each stage of the process (Inventory, Scanning, Processing, Metadata, and Upload).
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lessons Learned in Implementing the Extended Date/Time Format in a Large Digital Library (open access)

Lessons Learned in Implementing the Extended Date/Time Format in a Large Digital Library

Paper outlining research regarding date formatting in the UNT digital collections.
Date: July 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Handout to Accompany Poster on Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard] (open access)

[Handout to Accompany Poster on Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard]

Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata." In includes examples of dates that meet Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards, examples of problems encountered when normalizing date displays for users, additional statistics related to already-valid dates in the digital collections at the time that the standards were formally adopted, and links to online materials.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata

Poster illustrating issues involved in fully-implementing the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards in the UNT Libraries' digital collections, comprising The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) Dates Research Datasets

Two datasets, each with 390,751 date samples from the UNT Libraries' digital collections. These samples were compiled for research regarding the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standard. The first dataset contains a concatenated list of date values from the metadata records in The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History. The "classified" dataset includes labels expressing whether each date is EDTF-valid and the level of conformance.
Date: February 28, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

PREMIS Event Service

This presentation discusses the PREMIS Event Service. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has created a digital library infrastructure that is designed using the Curation Micro Services methodology for building repositories. Based on modular components designed for reuse and re-configuration the authors propose a general-purpose preservation event logging system using the PREMIS Event and Agent data model.
Date: June 9, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Schultz, Matt & Nordstrom, Kurt
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Introduction to Metadata

Presentation on what metadata is, the differences in syntax and semantics in metadata, and examples of associations and organizations that have developed metadata schemas.
Date: April 14, 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento (open access)

Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento

Paper presenting the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources reference from papers in scholarly repositories.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark Edward & Van de Sompel, Herbert
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Utilizing Digital Library Infrastructure to Build Modern Research Collections

This keynote presentation covers the opportunities that digital library infrastructure offers if utilized effectively as a tool to build novel research collections. It highlights examples from the UNT Libraries and other institutions, which demonstrate these concepts.
Date: April 24, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classification Of The End-Of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices To Web Archives (open access)

Classification Of The End-Of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices To Web Archives

This is the final report for the EOTCD project, which is formally titled 'Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives.' The project commenced December 1, 2009 and ended November 30, 2012. The overview includes background information about the End of Term (EOT) 2008 Archive and a brief description of the activities conducted in the project's four work areas. Following the Overview there are three sections: Goals Accomplished; Significant Findings and Accomplishments; and Project Achievements.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Issue Timeline

One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History
Date: February 26, 2013
Creator: Hicks, William & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Issues, Pages, Uses

One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History
Date: February 26, 2013
Creator: Hicks, William & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Texas Newspapers By County

One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History
Date: February 26, 2013
Creator: Hicks, William & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 'Texas Register' Web-Site Creations and Related Processes: Revised Report - 2003 (open access)

The 'Texas Register' Web-Site Creations and Related Processes: Revised Report - 2003

Report on the Texas Register, a weekly publication by the Office of the Secretary of State. This report discusses a partnership between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Office of the Secretary of State to insure permanent storage and public access to the non-current electronic files of the Texas Register.
Date: 2004
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Mapping the Southwest" Project: Collaboration for Curation of Wide-format Items

This presentation discusses the 'Mapping the Southwest' project and the collaboration for curation of wide-format items.
Date: April 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

An NDNP Partnership

This presentation discusses the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) partnership between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Oklahoma Historical Society. It offers a background on how this collaboration began, information on the workflows, and the successes and challenges.
Date: 2010
Creator: Spindle, Angela; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Fisher, Sarah Lynn & Carter, Brent
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborative Digital Repository Opportunities

This presentation discusses collaborative digital repository opportunities. The presentation offers questions and considerations as well as managing digital collections.
Date: October 11, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Suggestions for Effective Collaboration on Digital Projects

Presentation on suggestions for effective collaboration on digital projects.
Date: May 24, 2012
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Moore, Jeremy D.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resource Discovery Systems at the UNT Libraries (open access)

Resource Discovery Systems at the UNT Libraries

Report on resource discovery systems at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: September 14, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Weng, Neena; Thomale, Jason & Hicks, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Selection Criteria for Digital Collections

Presentation for the University of Florida on selection criteria for digital collections.
Date: March 26, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
PREMIS Event Service (open access)

PREMIS Event Service

This paper discusses the PREMIS Event Service. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries have created a digital library infrastructure that is designed using the Curation Micro Services methodology for building repositories. Based on modular components designed for reuse and re-configuration the authors propose a general-purpose preservation event logging system using the PREMIS Event and Agent data model. An example implementation developed with the Django Web framework and employing RESTful design patterns with the Atom Publishing Protocol is described.
Date: June 9, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Schultz, Matt & Nordstrom, Kurt
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Introduction to METS: UNT Libraries' Tech Talks

This Tech Talk presentation explores METS. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. Maintained by the Library of Congress, it provides a standard vocabulary and set of data structures for encoding hierarchical digital object content and metadata. In this presentation the author explains more about these parts of METS, and discusses how METS may be applicable to digital collections in the UNT Libraries.
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' strategies for creating digital collections and services from datasets and born digital objects and serving users outside of formal education and research.
Date: May 27, 2009
Creator: Hall, Nathan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access and ETDs

Poster presented at the 2014 United States (U.S) Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Annual Conference. This poster discusses open access and ETDs.
Date: September 2014
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Kleister, Jill
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library