Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use (open access)

Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use

This doctoral dissertation is about collection-level subject access in aggregations of digital collections. The author discusses metadata richness and user interaction.
Date: 2010
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

An Event Model for Herbarium Specimen Data in XML [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2010 Taxonomic Database Working Group Meeting. This poster discusses the Apiary Project, a collaboration of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
Date: 2010
Creator: Moen, William E.; Neill, Amanda K.; Best, Jason H.; McCotter, Melody; Xu, Hong & Huang, Jane Q.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Event Model for Herbarium Specimen Data in XML Poster Abstract (open access)

An Event Model for Herbarium Specimen Data in XML Poster Abstract

This abstract describes a poster about the Apiary Project. The Apiary Project, a collaboration of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, is building a framework and web-based workflow for the extraction and parsing of herbarium specimen data. The workflow will support the transformation of written or printed specimen data into a high-quality machine-processable XML format. This poster describes an event model that informed the development of the Apiary XML Application Schema
Date: 2010
Creator: Moen, William E.; Neill, Amanda K.; Best, Jason H.; McCotter, Melody; Xu, Hong & Huang, Jane Q.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

What Does Transaction Log Data Tell about Collection-Level Subject Access? [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2010 Library Research Seminar V Conference. This poster discusses what transaction log data can tell about collection-level subject access.
Date: 2010
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extracting and Parsing of Herbarium Specimen Data: Exploring the Use of the Dublin Core Application Profile Framework (open access)

Extracting and Parsing of Herbarium Specimen Data: Exploring the Use of the Dublin Core Application Profile Framework

Paper for the 2010 International iConference. This paper discusses extraction and parsing of herbarium specimen data to make the critical information available in digital form.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Moen, William E.; Huang, Jane Q.; McCotter, Melody; Neill, Amanda K. & Best, Jason H.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Introducing Resource Description and Access: taming the new cataloging rules

This presentation gives an introduction to Resource Description and Access (RDA). The author presents information on how RDA works, its affects on cataloging and its functionality.
Date: March 2010
Creator: Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

From AACR2 to RDA: an Update

This presentation gives an update on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2 (AACR2) and Resource Description and Access (RDA). In this presentation, the author discusses what is changing with RDA and what isn't, the functionality of the catalog, user's experience with functionality, what RDA allows us to do, and cataloger tasks.
Date: April 14, 2010
Creator: Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

RDA: What Cataloging Managers Need to Know

This presentation discusses what cataloging managers need to know about Resource Description and Access (RDA). It describes issues related to how RDA is affecting cataloging, what is changing and what is not, where we are and how we got here, the intention of RDA, objectives and principles, its relation to AACR2, and other RDA information.
Date: June 28, 2010
Creator: Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images (open access)

UNT at ImageCLEF 2010: CLIR for Wikipedia Images

This paper presents the results of the team of the University of North Texas in the Wikipedia image retrieval track of Image-CLEF-2010.
Date: September 2010
Creator: Ruiz, Miguel E.; Chen, Jiangping; Pasupathy, Karthikeyan; Chin, Pok & Knudson, Ryan
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beyond Size and Search: Building Contextual Mass in Digital Aggregations for Scholarly Use (open access)

Beyond Size and Search: Building Contextual Mass in Digital Aggregations for Scholarly Use

This paper discusses building contextual mass in digital aggregations for scholarly use.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Palmer, Carole L.; Zavalina, Oksana & Fenlon, Katrina
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access? (open access)

What Does Transaction Log Data Tell About Collection-Level Subject Access?

This paper accompanies a poster presented at the 2010 Library Research Seminar V Conference. This paper and the accompanying poster discuss what transaction log data tells us about collection-level subject access.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contrasting Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers (open access)

Contrasting Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers

This article presents a second year analysis of baseline attitudinal data gathered from a National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project concerning contrasts between the perceptions of practicing professionals and students toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and careers.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Knezek, Gerald; Christensen, Rhonda & Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork (open access)

Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork

Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & de Reuse, Willem
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Information Curation for 21st Century Science and Scholarship: Experience-Based Learning for Information Professionals and Disciplinary Researchers (open access)

Digital Information Curation for 21st Century Science and Scholarship: Experience-Based Learning for Information Professionals and Disciplinary Researchers

This paper proposes a project on experience-based learning for information professionals and disciplinary researchers. Proposal written for the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
Date: 2011
Creator: Moen, William E.; Kim, Jeonghyun & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Free-Text Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis (open access)

Free-Text Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis

This paper reports results of the study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital cultural heritage aggregations in the United States and Europe.
Date: 2011
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study (open access)

Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study

This article examines the design of a course that utilized the real-time information network Twitter to spark reflective thinking and communication based on classroom topics.
Date: 2011
Creator: Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warren, Scott J. & Alsobrook, Metta
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History (open access)

Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History

Article on metadata records translation and a study of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Ding, Ren & Jiang, Shan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information (open access)

Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information

Article discussing a philosophy of educating health information professionals in a rapidly changing health care and information environment.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Multilingual Information Access for Digital Libraries - The Metadata Records Translation Project

This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Wuhan University, Beijing Normal University, Nankai University, and the Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access for digital libraries and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photography Changes Our Environmental Awareness (open access)

Photography Changes Our Environmental Awareness

This article is part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative called Click! Photography Changes Everything. This article discusses how photography and increased visibility can bridge the gap between the natural world and human interaction.
Date: 2011
Creator: O'Connor, Brian Clark & Klaver, Irene
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Subject Access to Digital Collections in Aggregations (open access)

The Role of Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Subject Access to Digital Collections in Aggregations

This paper presents a new area of research in library and information sciences - investigation into collection-level subject metadata that describes entire digital collections as integral wholes - and reports results of the multi-method exploratory study combining comparative content analysis of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale aggregations of digital collections in the USA and Europe, transaction log analysis of user interactions with one of these portals, as well as interviews and observations of aggregation users.
Date: 2011
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Role of Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Subject Access to Digital Collections in Aggregations

This presentation discusses collection-level subject metadata in subject access to digital collections in aggregations. This was presented at the 18th International Conference "Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education, and Business" in Sudak, Ukraine.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Records Translation And Evaluation for Multilingual Information Access

This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM) in Toluca, Mexico. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis [Presentation] captions transcript

Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis [Presentation]

This presentation includes audio/video media and discusses metadata. This presentation reports results of the study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital cultural heritage aggregations in the United States and Europe.
Date: September 23, 2011
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library