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

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

Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)

This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2009 and the future projects planned.
Date: February 13, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
XML to Lucene to SRW (open access)

XML to Lucene to SRW

Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report documents procedures of parsing XML records into Lucene index and making those records available via SRW.
Date: February 15, 2007
Creator: Polyakov, Serhiy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status Report Period: Fall Semester 2006 (Updated February 15) (open access)

Status Report Period: Fall Semester 2006 (Updated February 15)

Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report details the status of the project and covers encountered problems and activities.
Date: February 15, 2006
Creator: Polyakov, Serhiy & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discover America's Cultural Heritage Collections on the Web

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library collections. It also discusses the invisible internet, other Texas digital collections, other large digital collections, major digital collections in other states, subscription databases, and gives strategies for searching all of these databases.
Date: February 25, 2010
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)

This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2010.
Date: February 5, 2010
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
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
Focus Group Report: University of North Texas - Denton - August 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: University of North Texas - Denton - August 2005

This report discusses a focus group that was part of the Web-at-Risk project. The report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: February 14, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Vendor Relations: From Both Sides

This presentation discusses vendor services and relations both as a service provider and as a customer of vendor services, in relation to digital libraries.
Date: February 18, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Evaluation of Project Outcome: User Satisfaction Report, February 2010 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Evaluation of Project Outcome: User Satisfaction Report, February 2010

This report presents information about the IOGENE project. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in December 2007 for a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the Libraries' Portal to Texas History. This document reports information about the survey questionnaire, the respondents, the research findings, and includes the positive overall outcome regarding user satisfaction with the work conducted in this project.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Usability Tests: Summary Report, February 2010 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Usability Tests: Summary Report, February 2010

This is a summary report of the findings of usability tests. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in December 2007 for a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the Libraries' Portal to Texas History and to redesign the interface to the Portal to meet those requirements.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Gas Well Drilling: What Does it Mean for North Texas?

This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling: What Does It Mean for North Texas? Presenters include Dr. David Sterling, from the UNT Health Science Center, Dr. Terry Clower from the Center for Economic Development & Research, and Dr. Robert M. Figueroa from the Department of Philosophy & Religion.
Date: February 15, 2011
Creator: Mondragon-Becker, Antonio
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Factors Affecting Selection of Information Sources: A Study of Ramkhamhaeng University Regional Campuses Graduate Students

Poster presented at the 2011 International iConference. This poster presents research conducted on students at Ramkhamhaeng University (RU).
Date: February 2011
Creator: Angchun, Peemasak; Turner, Philip Michael; Lin, Lin & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Library and Information Science End of Program Exam Survival Tips

Presentation for a University of North Texas (UNT) School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) 5900 course. This presentation discusses library and information science end of program exam survival tips and how to write three 2500 word essays in one week.
Date: February 2014
Creator: Whitmer, Susan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

APA Review: Citing Social Media and Websites

Presentation at the University of North Texas (UNT) for the research fellows from the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan. This presentation discusses citing social media and websites.
Date: February 2014
Creator: Whitmer, Susan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Final Project Report, February 2010 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Final Project Report, February 2010

This report discusses a research project conducted by the UNT Libraries. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two-year study to redesign the interface to The Portal to Texas History, a digital library program at the UNT Libraries. This report opens with background information for the project, describes the project's methods and working model, guides the reader through the project's three phases and associated feedback from the review process, and presents the revised model for application development. The report closes with measures of the project's success as well as reflections on the experience gained and its value for future digital library application development projects.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Qualitative Research Second Class Science? A Quantitative Longitudinal Examination of Qualitative Research in Medical Journals (open access)

Is Qualitative Research Second Class Science? A Quantitative Longitudinal Examination of Qualitative Research in Medical Journals

Article discussing the proportion of qualitative research over a 10 year period and correlates associated with its publication.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Shuval, Kerem; Harker, Karen; Roudsari, Bahman; Groce, Nora Ellen, 1952-; Mills, Britain A.; Siddiqi, Zoveen et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Problem of Data: iSchools and the New Data Professional (open access)

The Problem of Data: iSchools and the New Data Professional

Paper outlining a fishbowl discussion event at the 2013 International iConference. The theme of the fishbowl event is data curation, data lifecycle, pedagogy, professional development, and library education.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C. & Stark, Shannon
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Century's Only Partway There: "Hundred Year Hall" and the Evolution of the Live Album [Presentation]

This presentation discusses the evolution of live album recordings of The Grateful Dead, from composite recordings taken from multiple shows to one show releases, the motivations behind this transition, and its influence on the live albums of other artists
Date: February 11, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Century's Only Partway There: "Hundred Year Hall" and the Evolution of the Live Album (open access)

A Century's Only Partway There: "Hundred Year Hall" and the Evolution of the Live Album

Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2016 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference. The notes and presentation discusses the evolution of live album recordings of The Grateful Dead, from composite recordings taken from multiple shows to one show releases, the motivations behind this transition, and its influence on the live albums of other artists
Date: February 11, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project (open access)

Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project

This article describes the Preservation of Electronic Government Information Project, a two-year initiative aimed at addressing national concerns around the collection and preservation of born-digital government information by cultural memory organizations for long-term public use.
Date: February 2018
Creator: Sittel, Robbie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Resources Evaluation Rubric (open access)

Electronic Resources Evaluation Rubric

Rubric used to evaluate electronic resources for acquisition.
Date: February 2, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contract and License Review Checklist (open access)

Contract and License Review Checklist

Checklist used to review contracts and licenses against state, library, and legal review policies.
Date: February 2, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library