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Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation
The "Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation" (ANADP) conference was held at the National Library of Estonia, from May 23-25, 2011. More than 125 delegates from more than 20 countries were gathered in Tallinn, Estonia and explored how to create and sustain international collaborations to support the preservation of digital cultural memory. This publication contains a collection of peer-reviewed essays that were developed by conference panels and attendees in the months following ANADP.
Date:
August 2012
Creator:
Educopia Institute
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries
This study examines basic functional aspects of large digital libraries and draws on examples of existing digital libraries to illustrate their varying approaches to storage and content delivery, metadata approaches and harvesting, search and discovery, services and applications, and system sustainability.
Date:
July 2012
Creator:
Henry, Geneva
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works
The preface states that the work includes citations of articles, books, and technical reports on digital curation, mostly published between 2000 and 2011 in English. The bibliogrphy doesnot cover conference papers, digital media works, editorials, presentation slides, unpublished e-prints, or weblog postings.
Date:
June 2012
Creator:
Bailey, Charles W., Jr.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2012
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Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Official, quarterly journal of the National Rehabilitation Counseling Association (NRCA) containing articles, opinions, and research in professional rehabilitation counseling regarding the needs of individuals employed in a wide variety of work settings and with wide-ranging professional interests.
Date:
Spring 2012
Creator:
National Rehabilitation Counseling Association (U.S.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Feeling Animal: Pet-Making and Mastery in the Slave's Friend
Article on an American Anti-Slavery Society periodical, the 'Slave's Friend,' which ran from 1836 to 1839. The author describes the abolitionist sentiment and the animal metaphor.
Date:
August 30, 2012
Creator:
Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals For Smart Staff Development
This presentation discusses setting goals for staff. This presentation will talk about writing SMART goals that are clear and achievable and that meet the needs of the organization and its individuals for training.
Date:
July 9, 2012
Creator:
Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Using Assessment to Guide Strategic Planning
This presentation discusses using assessments to guide strategic planning.
Date:
July 9, 2012
Creator:
Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Is It Really That Bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems
This presentation is for a workshop and discusses a methodology for addressing full-text linking problems.
Date:
August 9, 2012
Creator:
Harker, Karen
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
What If... ? Analysis of Demand-Driven Acquisitions of E-Books at UNT
This poster discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) of e-books at UNT.
Date:
August 9, 2012
Creator:
Harker, Karen
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
DDA and STEM @ UNT: What we have learned
This presentation discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at the University of North Texas (UNT). For the Texas STEM Librarians' Conference, the author will present data and information about the pilot program, and how the Discovery Collection and the purchased titles are distributed, particularly regarding the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Date:
July 2012
Creator:
Harker, Karen
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biography indexes reviewed
Article discussing research on biography reviews and indexes.
Date:
September 2012
Creator:
Sassen, Catherine
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mining Newspaper Archives
This presentation discusses mining online newspaper archives. The topics in this presentation include the types of information found in these newspapers, the technology and standards for digitizing newspapers and offering effective search and navigation, ways to search, view, and browse the newspapers and how to use the search results.
Date:
February 2, 2012
Creator:
Carlisle, Tara & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Processing Non-English Content
This presentation was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes the NDNP New Mexico project's experience encoding ALTO OCR file language codes to enable enhanced discovery of its Spanish language content on the Chronicling America website.
Date:
September 27, 2012
Creator:
Weidner, Andrew
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project
In this paper, the authors describe research led by Educopia Institute regarding the preservation needs for digitized and born-digital newspapers. The 'Chronicles in Preservation' project, builds upon previous efforts (e.g. the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program) to look more broadly at the needs of digital newspapers in all of their diverse and challenging forms. This paper conveys the findings of the first research phase, including substantive survey results regarding digital newspaper curation practices.
Date:
October 2012
Creator:
Skinner, Katherine; Schultz, Matt; Halbert, Martin & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Paper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cataloguing in 2012: On The Cusp Of RDA
This article discusses changes in music cataloguing systems.
Date:
September 2012
Creator:
Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices
This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. The purpose of this document is to explain the PREMIS Event microservice as prototyped for the MetaArchive Cooperative, primarily from a developer's standpoint. The document will attempt to explain the purpose of the microservice, the underlying principles on which it operates, and a practical example of its usage. The MetaArchive has installed all of the components needed to deploy this microservice and looks forward to opportunities to experiment with practical implementations in future development projects.
Date:
March 9, 2012
Creator:
Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
MetaArchive: Final Report
This report provides summary information about the goals, activities, and results of this project, focusing on January 2008-December 2011. Section One will provide a brief summary of the outcomes of the project work based on the authors' project's performance objectives. Section Two will offer a brief reiteration of the authors' project's original goals and ambitions and an in-depth discussion of the authors' findings and development activities. Section Three will describe plans for the program's continuation and its long-term impact. Section Four will provide a list of the staff who have worked on various aspects of this project during the project period.
Date:
March 13, 2012
Creator:
Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appendix A: Preservation Business Model
This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix includes the 2010-2013 Strategic Plan which highlights the Educopia institute's strengths and achievements to date and details the strategic planning process. Specifically this strategic plan declares Educopia institute's: Mission statement, Vision, Three Critical Challenges, and Six Programmatic Goals (with objectives and strategies).
Date:
March 13, 2012
Creator:
Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer
This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document is a report on the status of a two-phase transfer test being carried out between the MetaArchive Cooperative and Chronopolis. These tests aim to demonstrate a proof-of-concept that the MetaArchive network may use Chronopolis's data grid preservation service as an exit strategy in the event that either MetaArchive or LOCKSS becomes unsustainable in the future.
Date:
March 9, 2012
Creator:
Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep
This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes the preparation of archival units residing on a LOCKSS file system that have been designated for packaging and exchange with a non-LOCKSS-based preservation environment-in this case an iRODS grid-based environment.
Date:
March 9, 2012
Creator:
Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool
This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes tools. These tools are designed to facilitate the transfer of data contained within a number of LOCKSS archival units and packaged into bags. The bags are then transferred to the iRODS grid. The user has the option of creating and sending filled bags, or holey bags. The primary tools are written in Python, and make use of the iRODS command line utilities for data transfer.
Date:
March 9, 2012
Creator:
Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer
This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare Library collection (246 archival units measuring 1.3TB) hosted on a University of North Texas (UNT) LOCKSS cache to a storage resource hosted by Chronopolis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
Date:
March 9, 2012
Creator:
Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preservation of Newspapers: Preliminary Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project
This presentation discusses the preliminary findings of the 'Chronicles in Preservation' project involving the preservation of newspapers. In this presentation, the authors describe the project background, the state of the field report, and the phase 1 findings and progress.
Date:
October 4, 2012
Creator:
Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Schultz, Matt
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Quality Review of Digital Newspapers: Lessons Learned at UNT
This presentation was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes a quality review of digital newspapers and lessons learned at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date:
September 27, 2012
Creator:
Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library