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User Experience of Access Points: Eye-tracking, Metadata, and Usability Testing

Description: This doctoral dissertation applies user experience and complex systems theory, combining eye-tracking data with verbal and observational data from user test instances, to study the effectiveness of metadata records that accompany digital primary source objects available on The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Identity Management at the University of North Texas

Description: Brief history of name authority in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Collections, including the development and use of a local name authority database for creators associated with the UNT community. This text was part of the article "Who Is This: Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management" published in the May/June 2018 issue of AALL Spectrum.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Systems Interoperability and Collaborative Development for Web Archiving - Filling Gaps in the IMLS National Digital Platform

Description: This presentation provides an overview of the beginning stages of the IMLS funded two-year web archiving research project with Internet Archive, Stanford University Libraries, University of North Texas, and Rutgers University.
Date: May 25, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Mumma, Courtney
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Experiments with Metadata Quality Interfaces

Description: This presentation provides an overview of the design features and goals of newly-developed metadata quality interfaces in the University of North Texas Librariesā€™ Digital Collections. Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Creating, Curating, and Preserving Digital Collections: Preserving the Digital Heritage

Description: Presented at the 2018 Ke Au Hou Pacific Librarianship Conference. This presentation describes a pre-conference workshop that provides attendees with a better understanding of the landscape related to digital preservation and access among cultural heritage institutions, key components in the ongoing process of preserving digital information, and the building blocks of digital preservation systems.
Date: May 1, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

IIIF and the UNT Digital Collections

Description: Presentation for the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Archives Community Group virtual meeting held on May 12, 2020. The presentation is a demonstration of the IIIF by the University of North Texas' digital collections.
Date: May 12, 2020
Creator: Hicks, William & McIntosh, Marcia
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections

Description: This paper presents a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Piloting OpenProject for Digital Projects

Description: Presentation describing the development of project management systems for digital projects by piloting the open-source software OpenProject. It was presented at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2022 which was held virtually on May 23, 2022.
Date: May 23, 2022
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Piloting Photogrammetry in Digital Libraries

Description: Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation focuses on photogrammetry methods used for model creation as well as metadata description, uploading, and viewing of the models in the UNT Digital Library.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

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

Breaking Down the Book: Literature Review and Practice of Book Digitization Methods

Description: 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 claā€¦ more
Date: May 18, 2023
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Kellum, Christina
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Decision Trees for Answering User Feedback

Description: Presentation on how feedback is handled by the University of North Texas Digital Library, including the management system, staffing resources, and some historical data. It focuses on the creation of decision trees to guide staff members through answering different types of questions and requests. 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: Fisher, Sarah Lynn & Coates, Maci
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

I am not a photographer. One librarian's journey toward understanding FADGI, image quality, and digitization best practices

Description: Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of site visits from over a dozen digitizing institutions across the country, including common tools used and best practices.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Willis, Shannon
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

UNT Libraries ETD Citation Analysis Project

Description: Poster for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses results from an analysis of UNT Electronic Theses and Dissertations citing URLs to items from the UNT Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Klein, Janette; Harker, Karen & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

TRAIL @ UNT: Update

Description: Presentation for the 2017 Technical report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) Annual Meeting. This presentation provides an update on the TRAIL Collection at UNT Libraries, including current metadata remediation initiatives.
Date: May 9, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Rosenbeck, Craig
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

Replicating Processes: Testing the Project Points System at UNT Digital Projects

Description: Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation describes the replication of a points system used by Northwestern University's Digital Media Services department to better understand lab resources and capacity within the UNT Digital Projects Lab.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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