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Folksonomy

This Tech Talk presentation explores Folksonomy. The author explores some of the more common aspects of folksonomies in the context of Web 2.0.
Date: July 2, 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management (open access)

Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

Book chapter on maintaining quality metadata and effective digital resource lifecycle management.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management

This presentation discusses the critical issues of metadata quality in digital libraries and describes the efforts being made by the University of North Texas Libraries to ensure metadata quality at various levels of digital resources' life cycle.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms (open access)

Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms

Abstract document accompanying a poster presentation for the 2008 ALISE Annual Conference (Work in Progress session. The topic is maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections using a complex set of actions and some of the tools and quality assurance mechanisms used at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms [Poster]

This poster presentation was presented at the 2008 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference (Work in Progress session). The poster discusses that maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions, and demonstrates some of the tools and quality assurance mechanisms used at the UNT Libraries.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.0

In this presentation, the author defines Folksonomy and the advantages and disadvantages of Folksonomy. He begins with a background on information retrieval and changing technologies, discusses trends in technologies, and explains the use of tags and Folksonomy.
Date: 2008
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
LibQual+ Lite Spring 2008 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

LibQual+ Lite Spring 2008 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries

This report contains information from the Spring 2008 pilot administration of the LibQUAL+® Lite protocol at University of North Texas Libraries. The goal of LibQUAL+® Lite is to measure user satisfaction in the same valid matter as the original LibQUAL+® protocol while using only a subset (8 items) of the orginal 22 core items.
Date: 2008
Creator: Association of Research Libraries
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fear of Extinction before Enlightenment (open access)

The Fear of Extinction before Enlightenment

This flyer showcases a painting by Rebecca Barham with information about the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 20th Annual Juried members Exhibition.
Date: 2008
Creator: Barham, Rebecca
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaboration in Practice: Megadata Happens

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how collaborations with other organizations has helped add to the collection. In this presentation, the author illustrates examples from The Portal to Texas History with information about metadata management, quality issues, and the automated systems in place by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Cost-Benefit Approach for Describing and Processing Digital Objects

This presentation discusses the costs and benefits associated with creating the metadata and ensuring metadata quality in The Portal to Texas History.
Date: August 30, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploring the Texas Revolution Online through The Portal to Texas History

This presentation illustrates examples of items held in The Portal to Texas History collection and how these works contribute to learning about the history of the Texas Revolution.
Date: April 19, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2008 (open access)

University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2008

This document provides summaries of all grants given to the University of North Texas Libraries from 2000 to 2008. The projects that were funded by the grants are described.
Date: 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lone Star Ink: Exploring Texas through Historic Newspapers, 1860-1922: Grant Materials (open access)

Lone Star Ink: Exploring Texas through Historic Newspapers, 1860-1922: Grant Materials

These grant materials were prepared for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to provide access to historic American Newspapers. The Library of Congress serves as the technical adviser for the NDNP. The Award funded digitization of Texas historical newspapers. For the grant, UNT served as the lead institution and partnered with the Center for American History at the University of Texas. This proposal was funded for $399,790.
Date: October 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oklahoma Newspaper Digitization Project: Grant Materials (open access)

Oklahoma Newspaper Digitization Project: Grant Materials

These grant materials were prepared for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to provide access to historic American Newspapers. The Library of Congress serves as the technical adviser for the NDNP. The Award funded digitization of Oklahoma historical newspapers. For the grant, the Oklahoma Historical Society served as the lead institution and partnered with UNT as the technical partner. For this proposal, UNT’s sub-contract as technical partner was $236,024.
Date: October 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna; Williams, Chad & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment: We know we should do it but does it have to be so difficult? (open access)

Assessment: We know we should do it but does it have to be so difficult?

This paper discusses assessment in library instruction programs.
Date: August 2008
Creator: Byerly, Gayla & Downey, Annie
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2008 (open access)

Preface to The Eagle Feather 2008

Introduction to the 2008 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2008
Creator: Cox, Gloria C. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker as Sole Diabetes Educator: Comparison of CoDE with Similar Culturally Appropriate Interventions (open access)

Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker as Sole Diabetes Educator: Comparison of CoDE with Similar Culturally Appropriate Interventions

Article discussing the effectiveness of a community health worker as sole diabetes educator.
Date: November 4, 2008
Creator: Culica, Dan; Walton, James W.; Harker, Karen & Prezio, Elizabeth A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas (open access)

Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas

Introduction to the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology, as published in the 2008 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2008
Creator: Dessouky, Shimaa Y. & Rios, L. Danyel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enemies of History: Murderers of the Past

This presentation is about a workshop for high school students. The workshop focused on preservation and how it relates to the study of history.
Date: April 16, 2008
Creator: Downey, Annie; May, Frances A.; Mears, Michelle M. & Smith, Jon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simple Ways to Add Active Learning to Your Library Instruction (open access)

Simple Ways to Add Active Learning to Your Library Instruction

This paper discusses library instruction. Assessments are recommended to determine the effectiveness of student learning. This paper also discusses a project by the UNT Libraries' in which they developed software to assess library instruction, called Library Instruction Software for Assessment (LISA) and the outcome of that study.
Date: 2008
Creator: Downey, Annie; Ramin, Lilly & Byerly, Gayla
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project

This presentation explains the End of Term Presidential Harvest, a collaborative project to preserve U.S. Government web sites at the end of the 2008 Presidential election. The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, California Digital Library, University of North Texas, and the US Government Printing Office were the participating organizations for this project.
Date: December 9, 2008
Creator: Grotke, Abigail; Phillips, Mark Edward & Barnum, George
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, December 2008 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, December 2008

This report is the second interim performance report for the project titled: Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework. The reporting period is July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008. The report includes three sections: Interim Goals and Accomplishments, Significant Findings and Accomplishments, and Project Achievements and Lessons Learned.
Date: December 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, July 2008 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, July 2008

This report is the first interim performance report for the project titled: Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework. The reporting period is December 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008. The report includes three sections: Interim Goals and Accomplishments, Significant Findings and Accomplishments, and Project Achievements and Lessons Learned.
Date: July 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library