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TRAIL Microcard Update

Description: Presentation discussing the status of the TRAIL Microcard Scanning Project at the University of North Texas. This presentation was given at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting on May 25, 2022.
Date: May 25, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Refining the process: An institutional approach to preparing projects for digitisation

Description: This article describes the opportunities identified in pre-processing projects and front-loading decision-making for physical collections by librarians at the University of North Texas Libraries. Over several years of managing digital projects, librarians at the University of North Texas Libraries have refined their knowledge management and digitization operations to realize gains in efficiency and error reduction, and to provide a more fluid imaging workflow for staff and student workers.
Date: Autumn 2022
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Mangum, Jake
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Cybersecurity Challenges in the Era of Open Access and BIG Data: Issues and Considerations

Description: Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2019 pre-conference held on October 19, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The panelists discussed cybersecurity challenges and provided an assessment of the cybersecurity issues related to open access and big data.
Date: October 19, 2019
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Chang, Hsia-Ching; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Rorissa, Abebe & Assefa, Shimelis
Partner: UNT Libraries

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Description: Presentation describing the ongoing CoRSAL (Computational Resource for South Asian Languages) project, including background on the UNT Digital Library infrastructure and metadata schema, specific fields that have presented issues or areas of discussion for language data records (language, creator/contributor, and relation), and final conclusions about the collaboration so far.
Date: September 30, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries

An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia

Description: This presentation covers a study conducted on tourism in Ethiopia. The study used an Ontology approach to research how Ethiopian tourism destination information can be supported with a machine-readable and interoperable model, be made visible and accessible to both international and local tourists, and improve reusability, integrity, and retrieval of tourist information in Ethiopia.
Date: 2020-12-03/2020-12-05
Creator: Hussen, Tijani
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Description: Article introduces the collaboration between the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) group and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library to build a series of interconnected digital collections for various language communities. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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North-South Scholarly Collaboration: Opportunities and Experiences in Africa

Description: Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2021 conference held on October 23-November 3, 2021 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The panel was meant to stimulate future north-south collaborations by increasing awareness of both funded opportunities and low budget initiatives for scholarly exchanges and collaborations, benefits for scholars and their institutions in developed and developing countries, and best practices with respect to north-south co… more
Date: October 31, 2021
Creator: Sonnenwald, Diane H.; Rorissa, Abebe; Fourie, Ina; Julien, Heidi; Raju, Jaya & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries
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“Unity in Diversity”: A Conversation around the Interdisciplinary Identity of Information Science

Description: Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2021 conference held on October 23-November 3, 2021 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The panel's goals were: (1) to engage researchers and educators in an interactive discussion on the contributing factors and ways in which information science can remain a diverse and interdisciplinary field, realize its full potential, and build a strong identity as well as identify potential barriers it needs to overcome… more
Date: October 31, 2021
Creator: Rorissa, Abebe; Iyer, Hemalata; Albright, Kendra; Potnis, Devendra; Caidi, Nadia & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Managing an institutional repository workflow with GitLab and a folder-based deposit system

Description: This article highlights the application of GitLab in ingesting material into an institutional repository and the folder-based deposit system that is used to move deposited resources through the ingestion process.
Date: February 10, 2021
Creator: Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.; Phillips, Mark Edward & Phillips, Kristy
Partner: UNT Libraries

Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit: Lessons Learned

Description: This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries digital repository self-audit according to the Trusted Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist (2014). It was given at the Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections virtual meeting hosted by the Library of Congress on March 14, 2022.
Date: March 14, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries

Saving the Byrds: Reshaping Digitization Workflows for Photographic Materials

Description: Presentation detailing the customized workflow established for the creation of the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection in the UNT Digital Library, as well as the unique problems and solutions that arose throughout the course of the project. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: Ekberg, Samantha
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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