Metadata Tools and Workflows at the University of North Texas

This presentation illustrates the metadata tools, workflows, and quality control measures at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: June 27, 2010
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Learning from Our Users: Using Assessment to Drive Change

This poster discusses using assessments and user feedback in the libraries. The poster illustrates a comparison between LibQUAL+ surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic study results for online students.
Date: June 26, 2011
Creator: Wahl, Diane & Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

LibQUAL+ Lite at UNT

This poster discusses the LibQUAL+ Lite survey. It summarizes results and implications relating to survey participation and survey results given at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: June 26, 2011
Creator: Wahl, Diane
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessment of Library Support for Distance Learning at UNT

Presentation for the 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference discussing assessments of library support for distance learning at the University of North Texas (UNT). The methods used include LibQUAL+ surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies.
Date: June 27, 2011
Creator: Wahl, Diane
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
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

Networking and Getting Involved Professionally

This presentation discusses networking and career development. It includes information about becoming involved in professional organizations, attending conferences, creating business cards, and staying in contact with others in the profession.
Date: June 9, 2011
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occupation and authorship in The Indexer, 2000-09 (open access)

Occupation and authorship in The Indexer, 2000-09

Article on the occupations and authorship in The Indexer from 2000 through 2009.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2011 International Conference on Open Repositories. This presentation discusses the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Memento makes it possible to automate discovery of archived resources and to consider the time between the publication of the research and the archiving of the reference URLs.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark Edward & Van de Sompel, Herbert
Object Type: Presentation
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

Pancho Villa and the Battle of Columbus: Frontiers in Digital Newspapers

This poster discusses frontiers in digital newspapers. Since early 2011, the University of New Mexico and the University of North Texas have been engaged in a historical newspaper digitization project. The endeavor is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP): a long-term project coordinated by the Library of Congress with the goal of digitizing 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from each of the 50 states and publishing them to the Web at Chronicling America.
Date: June 29, 2012
Creator: Weidner, Andrew
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Measuring the Impact of Preserving Digital Assets

This presentation discusses measuring the impact of preserving digital assets. This presentation reports the initial findings of a study of the impact of digitizing assets, specifically: (a) a framework of impact areas and indicators and (b) findings for the Portal's content partners and users.
Date: June 13, 2012
Creator: Belden, Dreanna & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Improving Access: Texas Topographic Map Project

In this presentation, the author gives the background, goals, process, challenges, and next steps of the Texas Topographic Map Project. For this project, the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit is digitizing topographic maps to be included in The Portal to Texas History.
Date: June 24, 2012
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measuring the Impact of Preserving Digital Assets (open access)

Measuring the Impact of Preserving Digital Assets

This paper discusses measuring the impact of preserving digital assets.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classifying the End-of-Term Archive (open access)

Classifying the End-of-Term Archive

This paper discusses the Classification of the End-of-Term Archive project.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Classifying the End of Term Web Archive [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2012 IS&T Archiving Conference. This poster discusses a research project on classifying the End-of-Term Archive. This Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded research project investigates whether link analysis and cluster analysis were effective techniques for classifying the materials in the End-of-Term archive to improve discovery.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography for "Encouraging Research and Publication among Academic Librarians" (open access)

Bibliography for "Encouraging Research and Publication among Academic Librarians"

This bibliography accompanies a presentation for the 2013 Library Management Institute Summer Conference. This bibliography contains citations for information related to encouraging research and publication among academic librarians.
Date: June 2013
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Encouraging Research and Publication among Academic Librarians

Presentation for the 2013 Library Management Institute Summer Conference. This presentation discusses encouraging research and publication among academic librarians. It covers topics on why support is needed, related surveys and methodology, respondents, and library research committees.
Date: June 2013
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborative Approach to Address Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Challenges

Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Summer Meeting. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaborative approaches to address scholarly communications and digital curation challenges.
Date: June 14, 2013
Creator: Helge, Kris; Waugh, Laura & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laying the Groundwork for Newspaper Preservation through Collaboration and Communication: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program (open access)

Laying the Groundwork for Newspaper Preservation through Collaboration and Communication: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program

This paper discusses the history of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and associated digital newspaper initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: June 2013
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Studying Ourselves: Libraries and the User Experience at UNT

This presentation was part of a program discussing applications of traditional sociological and anthropological research methods to the study of libraries, librarians and library use. This presentation discusses a user-centered study conducted about the UNT Libraries.
Date: June 30, 2013
Creator: Wahl, Diane
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Textbooks Weighing You Down? Check out our E-Readers [Poster]

This poster discusses a grant project for purchasing e-book readers as a way of circulating textbooks to college students at the University of North Texas. The poster includes text, a timeline, graphs, photos of marketing materials, and sample survey questions from the project.
Date: June 30, 2013
Creator: Brannon, Sian & Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preparation is Key: Lessons Learned from an ERMS Implementation

This presentation discusses lessons learned from an Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS).
Date: June 2013
Creator: Enoch, Todd
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

DataRes Project Primary Survey

Dataset from the DataRes Project. This dataset is the primary survey on data management needs of researchers.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Stark, Shannon; Halbert, Martin & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library