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Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries

Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries. Mark Phillips January 28, 2009. Organizational Infrastructure. Information Technology Services LAN/PC Multimedia Development Lab (MMDL) Digital Projects Unit (DPU). DPU Role in Digital Initiatives. Infrastructure

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Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries

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  1. Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries Mark Phillips January 28, 2009

  2. Organizational Infrastructure • Information Technology Services • LAN/PC • Multimedia Development Lab (MMDL) • Digital Projects Unit (DPU)

  3. DPU Role in Digital Initiatives • Infrastructure • Digitization Services • Metadata Infrastructure • Repository Infrastructure • Web Archiving

  4. Digitization Services • High speed scanning • Photographic scanning • Negative scanning • Book scanning • Large format digitization • Audio digitization (limited) • Video digitization (limited)

  5. Metadata Infrastructure • Descriptive metadata scheme • Implementation guide for projects • Controlled vocabularies • Metadata workflow • Metadata creation tools • Metadata editing tools • Metadata analysis tools

  6. Repository Infrastructure • Persistent identifiers • Ingest tools • Access systems • Search systems • Preservation/Archival systems

  7. Web Archiving • URL nomination tool • Crawling • Indexing • Access to Web Archives

  8. DPU Staffing • 2 Metadata Librarians • 3 Programmers • 1 Digitization Lab Manager • 1 Digital Imaging Technician • 2 Grant Project Managers • 1 Department Administration • 2 Graduate Assistants • 12-15 Student Assistants • 2 Grant/Writing Development

  9. What does this look like to people? • Portal to Texas History • UNT Libraries Digital Collections • CRS Report Archive • UNT Libraries Website • Digital Collections List • Digital Library Search

  10. Research Projects • NDNP Texas Newspaper Digitization Project • IOGENE Optimizing Interfaces for Genealogists • NDIIPP Web-At-Risk • End of Term Presidential Harvest 2008

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