Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods [VRA 2023]

Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Visual Resources Association Conference held in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: August 26, 2023
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Kellum, Christina
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Perils of Complexity: A multi-stage study to determine necessary images for digitized scrapbook representation

Presentation on a multi-stage study to assess national trends and user preferences for scrapbook representation undertaken by librarians at the University of North Texas. The stages of this study included a review of national trends in scrapbook digitization, as seen in the Digital Public Library of America; a paper-prototyping-inspired, in-person user study; and an online survey of user preferences. The results of this research have enabled the implementation of clear guidelines at the University of North Texas for scrapbook digitization that accounts for the user experience rather than strictly relying on personal opinion or local librarian consensus. It was presented at the Visual Resource Association Annual Conference held on March 22-26, 2021.
Date: March 26, 2021
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata versus Full-Text: Tracking Users’ Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Seeking Behavior

Presentation for the 2018 iConference. This presentation provides data from a recent research project at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to better understand how users are discovering electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the UNT Libraries.
Date: March 26, 2018
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Expanding the ETD Collection to Capture More Complete Contents of Student Works

Presentation for the 2016 US Electronic Theses and Dissertation Association Conference describing the use of additional repository collections to capture supplemental works and make visible the labor of producing a thesis or dissertation.
Date: September 26, 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

TRAIL Metadata Uplift Project

This presentation provides an overview of metadata for TRAIL digitized projects, and identifies three issues to be addressed through metadata uplift.
Date: April 26, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rethinking "But This is the Way We've Always Done It!"

This presentation provides an overview of a reassessment of digital imaging workflow for University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab.
Date: May 26, 2016
Creator: Willis, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library

TRAIL Harvesting Costs Report

This presentation looks at the effort and costs involved with building Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) collections.
Date: April 26, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries TRAIL Processing

This presentation provides an overview of two processes for digitizing technical reports with TRAIL
Date: April 26, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library