Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation (open access)

Chronopolis and MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation

This paper will examine ongoing work between two major preservation systems, the Chronopolis Digital Preservation Program, and the MetaArchive Cooperative.
Date: September 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship between Adolescent Risk Preferences on a Laboratory Task and Behavioral Measures of Risk-taking (open access)

Relationship between Adolescent Risk Preferences on a Laboratory Task and Behavioral Measures of Risk-taking

Article discussing research on the relationship between adolescent risk preferences on a laboratory task and behavioral measures of risk-taking.
Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: Rao, Uma; Sidhartha, Tanuj; Harker, Karen; Bidesi, Anup S.; Chen, Li-Ann & Ernst, Monique, 1953-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chronopolis, University of North Texas, MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation

This presentation discusses how preservation systems can share objects and specifically a collaboration between Chronopolis, MetaArchive, and the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: September 21, 2010
Creator: Minor, David; Phillips, Mark Edward & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpreting MARC: Where's the Bibliographic Data? (open access)

Interpreting MARC: Where's the Bibliographic Data?

Article discussing the notion that viewing MARC from a modern technological perspective leads to interpretive problems such as a confusion of "bibliographic data" with "catalog records."
Date: September 21, 2010
Creator: Thomale, Jason
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Digital Library Storage Architectures for Digital Collections

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library Program and possible solutions for sudden growth in digital content.
Date: September 27, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs (open access)

Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs

This paper discusses data desiccation and facilitating the long-term access, use, and reuse of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: September 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2011 International Symposium on ETDs. This presentation discusses data desiccation and facilitating long-term access, use and reuse of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: September 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resource Discovery Systems at the UNT Libraries (open access)

Resource Discovery Systems at the UNT Libraries

Report on resource discovery systems at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: September 14, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Weng, Neena; Thomale, Jason & Hicks, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Distributed Digital Preservation ETD Workshop

This presentation is designed to provide institutions with Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) initiatives with information about preserving ETDs. In this presentation, the authors discuss ETDs and preservation needs, MetaArchive and distributed preservation, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)/MetaArchive ETD DDPN Archive, collections management for preservation, MetaArchive and its member roles and responsibilities, and the ETD Lifecycle Management Project.
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: McMillan, Gail & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biography indexes reviewed (open access)

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
Cataloguing in 2012: On The Cusp Of RDA (open access)

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

Newspapers In The 21st Century: How NDNP State Projects Deliver The News

This poster discusses newspapers in the 21st century and how the National Digital Newspapers Program (NDNP) state projects deliver the news. NDNP Awardees' are creating their own digital newspaper sites to provide free access to content digitized through NDNP and beyond.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Howington, Ann & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT Libraries: Open Access Fund Research Report (open access)

UNT Libraries: Open Access Fund Research Report

Report for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. This research report discusses open access funds at universities and article processing charges (APCs).
Date: September 17, 2012
Creator: Waugh, Laura
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Portal Partner Update

This presentation was given at a dinner celebrating The Portal to Texas History. The presentation describes recent projects, discusses feedback from Portal users, describes the work of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, and provides examples of how graduate students have used The Portal to Texas History for their research.
Date: September 20, 2012
Creator: Carlisle, Tara; Krahmer, Ana & Liles, Deborah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Impact of Digitizing Resources: Content Partner and User Perspectives

Presentation for the 2012 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses research to measure the impact of digital assets in The Portal to Texas History.
Date: September 21, 2012
Creator: Belden, Dreanna & 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

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

Analysis of URL References in ETDs: A Case Study at the University of North Texas [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2013 International Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Symposium. The presentation gives an analysis of URL references in ETDs and a case study at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: September 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Reyes Ayala, Brenda
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

APA Review Library Information Sciences End of Program Exam

Presentation for a University of North Texas (UNT) School of Library and Information Sciences (SLIS) 5900 course. This presentation gives instruction for the American Psychological Association (ALA) citation style for electronic journals.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Whitmer, Susan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

BI's via LibGuides: All your eggs in one basket

Presentation for the 2013 Texas Library Association (TLA) Library Instruction Round Table. This presentation discusses BIs via LibGuides.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Whitmer, Susan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building Institutional Capacity in Digital Preservation (open access)

Building Institutional Capacity in Digital Preservation

Paper for the IPRES Annual Conference on building institutional capacity in digital preservation.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Schultz, Matt; Phillips, Mark Edward; Eisenhauer, Stephen & Krabbenhoeft, Nick
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chronicles in Preservation: Building Institutional Capacity in Digital Preservation

Poster presented at the 2013 iPres Conference. The poster discusses the Chronicles in Preservation project, which evaluates how to improve the preservation readiness of digitized and born-digital newspapers on a spectrum of essential to optimal levels of conformance to digital preservation standards.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Schultz, Matt; Phillips, Mark Edward; Krabbenhoeft, Nick & Eisenhauer, Stephen
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
History indexes reviewed (open access)

History indexes reviewed

Article discussing index characteristics mentioned in reviews of history books appearing in Reviews in History.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lessons Learned in Implementing the Extended Date/Time Format in a Large Digital Library

Presentation on the implementation of the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) within the University of North Texas (UNT) digital collections, including the results of an analysis performed in February 2013. It provides a summary of the kinds of date formats in the EDTF with examples from the digital collections, a description of methods used to implement and utilize the machine-readability of the format, and an overview of reasons that other institutions may want to consider switching to the EDTF.
Date: September 4, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library