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Item Adding The Chronicles of Oklahoma to the Gateway to Oklahoma History Digital Library(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Dobbs, KatherineItem Co-located Collaborative Information-based Ideation through Embodied Cross-Surface Curation(2014-12-15) Fei, ShenfengWe develop an embodied cross-surface curation environment to support co-located, collaborative information-based ideation. Information-based ideation (IBI) refers to tasks and activities in which people generate and develop significant new ideas while working with information. Curation is the process of gathering and assembling objects in order to express ideas. The linear media and separated screens of prior curation environments constrain expression. This research utilizes information composition of rich bookmarks as the medium of curation. Visual representation of elements and ability to combine them in a freeform, spatial manner mimics how objects appear and can be manipulated in the physical world. Metadata of rich bookmarks leverages capabilities of the WWW. We equip participants with personal IBI environments, each on a mobile device, as a base for contributing to curation on a larger, collaborative surface. We hypothesize that physical representations for the elements and assemblage of curation, layered with physical techniques of interaction, will facilitate co-located IBI. We hypothesize that consistent physical and spatial representations of information and means for manipulating rich bookmarks on and across personal and collaborative surfaces will support IBI. We hypothesize that the small size and weight of personal devices will facilitate participants shifting their attention from their own work to each other and collaboration. We evaluated the curation environment by inviting couples to participate in a home makeover design task in a living-room lab. We demonstrated that our embodied cross-surface curation environment supports creative thinking, facilitates communication, and stimulates engagement and creativity in collaborative IBI.Item Curation and Preservation Services: Adapting Frameworks and Tools to Enable Sustainable Programs(2013-04-30) McGovern, Nancy; Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySince 1996, the digital preservation community has been developing and refining standards and practice. For more than a decade, organizations responsible for managing digital content over time have been adapting and adopting the results of those community efforts. This paper looks at organizational examples of using community documents such as Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities, Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model, and Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC), and other community documents as frameworks for developing and sustaining digital curation and preservation programs. The backdrop for this work is the organizational developmental model developed by Kenney and McGovern for the Digital Preservation Management workshop series that has been running since 2003.Item Digital Curation Micro-Applications: Digital Lifecycle Management with AutoHotkey(2013-03-26) Weidner, Andrew; Wilson, Robert John III; Alemneh, Daniel; University of North TexasMaintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the many challenges at various stages of the digital object lifecycle. Digital curation activities enhance access and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and facilitate use and re-use over time. Accordingly, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries develop and adopt tools, workflows, and quality control mechanisms that streamline production and quality assurance activities. This poster demonstrates open source software tools coded with AutoHotkey that the UNT digital libraries group has developed for use during the pre-ingest and post-ingest stages of the digital resource lifecycle. AutoHotkey is free and open source software for the Windows operating system which helps digital curators to create customized micro-applications for digital lifecycle management. Developers write scripts that embed multiple keystrokes and system commands in a single key combination, or hotkey. In addition to a portable version for script developers who frequently change workstations, AutoHotkey allows users to create executable files from source scripts for use on computers that do not have AutoHotkey installed. The AutoHotkey scripting language supports programming constructs (e.g., variables, loops, conditionals) and dynamic graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Simple AutoHotkey scripts are particularly useful for large projects that require repetitive file management actions. For ongoing batch processing activities, more complex scripts improve efficiency for those who are unfamiliar with command line equivalents. These scripts allow digital curators to perform automated file management and data entry tasks within the operating system’s GUI. The Digital Libraries Division at the UNT Libraries has constructed a set of tools that bundle complex AutoHotkey scripts together in a convenient GUI. This poster demonstrates how AutoHotkey micro-applications streamline workflows for the creation and maintenance of digital objects and their associated metadata.Item Let’s Git Creative: Using GitLab to Improve the Institutional Repository Workflow at the University of North Texas(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-24) Johnson-Freeman, WhitneyItem Pushing the Boundaries of Open Access(2014-03-14) Alemneh, Daniel; Phillips, Mark; Kleister, Jill; University of North TexasThe Open Access (OA) movement has become increasingly important in shaping the ways that academic libraries provide services to support the creation, organization, management and use of digital contents. The University of North Texas (UNT) has embraced the open access movement and seeks to bring scholarship to the widest possible audience. Our usage statistics show that users from more than 200 countries around the world visit the UNT Digital Libraries’ diverse collections. Theses and dissertations represent a wealth of scholarly and artistic content created by masters and doctoral students in the degree-seeking process. The University of North Texas (UNT) was one of the first three American universities to require electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) for graduation, and by 1999 all theses and dissertations submitted by students in pursuit of advanced degrees were digital. We are intensely proud of the work of our students. Currently, more than 90% of UNT’s ETDs are freely accessible to the public via the UNT Digital Library, while less than10% have been restricted by their authors for use by the UNT community only. In light of supporting academic institutions initiative to advance digital scholarship for worldwide research, we started a new project contacting UNT alumni who restricted their ETDs in perpetuity. We contacted about 700 ETD authors, asking their permission to remove the restrictions from their theses or dissertations and make them openly available in the UNT Digital Library. This poster provides a preliminary analysis of the UNT‘s efforts to make students’ work accessible to a wider global audience.Item Teaching Digital Curation: Access and Preservation(2015-04-28) Plumer, Danielle; Texas State Library and Archives CommissionDigital curation is a broad concept. Many institutions focus on the preservation aspect of the curation lifecycle; others lean toward access and use. This presentation will describe graduate courses addressing both aspects of curation, including the development of a sequence of courses at the University of North Texas College of Information as part of the iCAMP project (http://icamp.unt.edu) and a course on "Digital Public History" offered at Texas State University in Fall 2014. It will argue that a closer relationship between access and preservation must be explored in education as in practice to support the complete spectrum of digital curation.Item What is Digital Librarianship?: A Texas Digital Library Interview Series(Texas Digital Library, 2022-05-23) Gunnells, Alexandra; Santiago, Chloe; Coleman, Misha"Many academic libraries across Texas now maintain significant digital collections of resources. These collections may consist of digitized and/or born digital materials and are considered a part of the academic library’s holdings. However, despite the ever-increasing prevalence of digital collections, the tasks of librarians working with these collections remain elusive. Digital librarianship, particularly in the context of an academic institution, encompasses a vast array of roles and responsibilities. Ultimately, the question of what digital librarians do remains unclear for both the general public and for MLIS/MSIS students. This uncertainty creates a disconnect between the libraries themselves and the communities that these libraries serve. The goal of this project is to provide an understanding of digital library work to both the general public and LIS/MSIS students through an interview series format. We focus on exploring what tasks make up the day-to-day job of a digital librarian, as well as the larger challenges of working with digital collections. Furthermore, this project aims to highlight members of the BIPOC community and other marginalized communities who are currently working in the field of digital librarianship. As of February 2022, we have conducted a series of seven interviews with Texas Digital Library-affiliated professionals working in the field of digital librarianship, with the possibility to conduct additional interviews in the future."