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Presidential End of Term Web Harvest Lessons Learned (open access)

Presidential End of Term Web Harvest Lessons Learned

This paper discusses web harvesting and the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Presidential End of Term Web Harvest Project in which they captured government websites for archiving. In this paper, the author describes what web harvesting is, gives information on the project, and links and tools.
Date: 2005
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Web-Based Survey Research Consent Letter (open access)

Web-Based Survey Research Consent Letter

This letter is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The letter introduces participants to what the Web-at-Risk project is and what the study hopes to accomplish.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Discussion Guide (open access)

Focus Group Discussion Guide

This document is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This is the focus group discussion guide used for the project. The purpose of the questions included in this guide are to create a comfortable atmosphere in which people feel valued for their participation, to establish the context for the discussion, and to provide the facilitator with information about the group.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
End User Interview Questionnaire (open access)

End User Interview Questionnaire

This document is the end user interview questionnaire used for the Web-at-Risk project. It includes instructions for the interviewer, key concepts, and digital archive examples along with the questions to be asked.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Consent Form: Focus Groups and End User Interviews (open access)

Research Consent Form: Focus Groups and End User Interviews

This document is a consent form for focus groups and end users for the Web-at-Risk project. This consent form describes the purpose of the study, the description of the study, the procedures used, and the risks and benefits to users.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Participant Questionnaire (open access)

Focus Group Participant Questionnaire

This document is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This is the focus group participant questionnaire and lists seven questions for participants to answer.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Needs Assessment Survey (open access)

Needs Assessment Survey

This document is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This is the needs assessment survey for the project. The purpose of this assessment is twofold: (1) to identify curator and end-user needs that impact the collection development process for web archives, and (2) To identify the requirements for the Curator User Interface (CUI) to the web crawler and associated tools in the areas of content crawling, crawl progress monitoring, crawl quality assessment, management and description of crawled content, searching and browsing of crawled content, and preservation of crawled content.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Consent Script for Telephone Interviews (open access)

Research Consent Script for Telephone Interviews

This document is a consent form for telephone interviews that are part of the Web-at-Risk project. This paper describes the purpose of the interview and what the Web-at-Risk project is, with a place for consent to be interviewed and a signature.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content Producer Interview Questionnaire (open access)

Content Producer Interview Questionnaire

This document is an interview, questionnaire for the Web-at-Risk project. The purpose of this interview is to explore the issues information publishers or content producers have regarding web archives. The purpose of this discussion is to elicit the needs and thoughts of the users regarding web archives of materials created by a third party, such as a universal library.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Needs Assessment Toolkit: Guidelines and Data Collection Tools (open access)

Needs Assessment Toolkit: Guidelines and Data Collection Tools

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. Each of the projects represents a collaborative effort to preserve for future generations born-digital or digitized cultural heritage materials and collections. The Web-at-Risk project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University. The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build collections of web-published materials. The content will be collected largely from US federal and state government agencies, but will also include political policy documents, campaign literature, and information surrounding political movements. The project work will be conducted along four paths of overlapping activities. The Web-at-Risk Project work paths include (1) Content identification, selection, and acquisition; (2) Content harvest and analysis; (3) Content ingest, retention, and transfer; and (4) Partnership building.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Needs Assessment Toolkit

This presentation discusses the needs assessment toolkit created for the Web-at-Risk project. This presentation outlines the details related to the web archive development process and the activities related to the needs assessment.
Date: May 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Resources: Lessons from the Texas History Portal (open access)

The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Resources: Lessons from the Texas History Portal

Paper for the 2005 IS&T Archiving Conference. This article discusses the issues of compliance and interoperability in integrating heterogeneous digital resources and lessons from the Texas History Portal.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a portal to Texas history (open access)

Development of a portal to Texas history

Article discussing the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History.
Date: February 17, 2005
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Belden, Dreanna; Reis, Nancy; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Dunlop, Doug
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Field of Near-Death Studies Through 2001: An Analysis of the Periodical Literature (open access)

The Field of Near-Death Studies Through 2001: An Analysis of the Periodical Literature

Article analyzing literature of the first quarter century of the field of near-death studies.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner & Christian, Rozan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources: Lessons from Texas History Portal [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2005 IS&T Archiving Conference. This poster describes issues related to portal building and explores compliance and interoperability issues. It also assesses the current status and the emerging trends in innovative uses of portal technologies and provides an overall scenario.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2005 (open access)

Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2005

This one page document is a brief organizational history for The Portal to Texas History for 2005. This document was used for grant submissions to state or federal funding agencies, or private foundations. This document reflects on strategic directions for the program, as well as the number of collaborative partners for the Portal and the number of historic documents in the digital library.
Date: 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: ALA, Chicago, June, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: ALA, Chicago, June, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This 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, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities (open access)

Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This paper provides an overall scenario in the areas of aggregating a variety of digital formats, archiving digital content, and innovative uses of digital library technologies.
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2005 ASIS&T Annual conference. This poster discusses challenges, opportunities, and meeting the demands of digital scholarship.
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensuring Universal Access for the Global Information Flow: Responding to the Demands of Scholarship in the Digital Age

This presentation was presented in Session 6.4 Reports of Current Research (Juried Papers), at the 2005 ALISE Conference. It summarizes current situations and developing trends in information technologies. Africa is used as a case to illustrate how local policies have played important roles in the process of information globalization.
Date: 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hastings, Samantha Kelly
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Implementing a Robust Architecture for a Centralized Portal System

Poster presented at the 2005 ALISE Annual Conference. This poster discusses the architecture for a centralized portal system.
Date: January 2005
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries

This presentation discusses how The Portal to Texas History is harnessing technology to enable collaboration with small museums and libraries. This presentation includes information on the workflows, planning, metadata elements, and goals for the Portal project.
Date: 2005
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Origin of the Specious: A Controversy Reconsidered (open access)

Origin of the Specious: A Controversy Reconsidered

Paper argues that information on the theory of evolution and Judeo-Christian creationism can be presented together with clear distinctions drawn between evidence and inference.
Date: 2005
Creator: Matteson, Samuel E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2005 (open access)

Preface to The Eagle Feather 2005

Introduction to the 2005 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2005
Creator: Cox, Gloria C. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library