Publications and Presentations

2008

• Tool: Metadata analysis tools to identify various types of problems.
  RLG Programs Metadata Tools Forum, May 8, 2008, Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  
• Digitization Expo
  Texas Library Association (TLA), Annual Conference, April 15-18, 2008, Dallas, Texas.
  
  
• Harnessing Social Networks to Connnect with Audiences: If You Build It, Will They Come 2.0?
  Internet Reference Services Quarterly, Volume 13, Number 1, 2008; pp. 99-111.
   

• Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms
  Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 2008 Annual Conference, January 8-11, 2008, Philadeliphia, Pennsylvania.
  
  

2007

• Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: the Portal to Texas History Experience
  The American Society for Information Science and Technology, (ASIST), October 19 -  24, 2007 Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  
  
• Usability Testing: WAS R4 Discussion of Findings 
  2007 Web at Risk Curators Meeting. May 30, Oakland California.
  
  
• Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
  The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), Archiving Conference (Archiving 2007), May 21-24, 2007, Arlington, Virginia. [Also published in the Archiving 2007 proceedings (ISBN: 978-0-89208-270-4), pp. 75-79].
  
  
• Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials
  DigCCurr 2007,  April 19, 2007, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
  
  
• Texas-Sized Bytes! Z39.50 and Metasearch/Interoperability standards
  Texas Library Association (TLA), Annual Conference, April 11-14, 2007, San Antonio, Texas.
  
  

• Archiving Web-Published Materials: Issues and Challenges
  Texas Library Association (TLA), Annual Conference, April 11-14, 2007, San Antonio, Texas.
  
  
• Metadata Madness! Describing Digital Collections
  Texas Library Association (TLA), Annual Conference, April 11-14, 2007, San Antonio, Texas. (A half day preconference workshop).

2006

• At Risk: Capturing & Preserving Web Resources.
  Special Libraries Association 2006 Annual Conference, June 12, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland.
  
  
• Developing the ICT Infrastructure for Africa: Overview of Barriers to Harnessing the Full Power of the Internet
  Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS), Volume 47, Number 1, 2006; pp. 4-16.
  
  

• Digitization: Planning to Preservation
  Texas Library Association (TLA), Annual Conference, April 25-29, 2006, Houston, Texas. (Preconference Workshop on Tuesday pp. 2).
  
  
• Focus Group Reports: University of North Texas
  Findings from each Web-at-Risk focus group held in 2005, February 14, 2006, [Denton, Texas]
  
  

• Employing Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Digital Preservation: A Conceptual Framework for Examining Implementation Issues in the Cultural Heritage Community
  Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 2006 Annual Conference, January 16-19, 2006, San Antonio, Texas. [Award winning presentation]

2005

• The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries
  Coaltion for Networked Information, (CNI), Phoenix, Arizona, December 6, 2005.
  
  

• Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities
  The American Society for Information Science and Technology, (ASIST), 2005 Annual Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 28 - November 2, 2005.
  
  

• Presidential End of Term Web Harvest: Lessons Learned
  Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) 2005 National Forum. September 29 - October 2, 2005, San Jose, California.
  
  

• Development of a portal to Texas history
  Journal: Library Hi Tech Volume 23 Number 2, 2005; PP. 151-163.
  
  

• Needs Assessment Toolkit.
  Introduction to the planned Web at Risk needs assessment activities at the Project Meeting. May 3-4, 2005, Oakland, California.
  
  
• The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources: Lessons from Texas History Portal
  The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) 2005 Archiving Conference, Washington, DC; April 26, 2005; pp. 149-152
  
  

• Realigning Resources to Meet Technology's Challenges in a Research Library
  University of North Texas (UNT), April 2, 2005.
  
  

• Implementing a Robust Architecture for a Centralized Portal System
  Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2005 Annual Conference, January 11-14, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  

• Ensuring Universal Access for the Global Information Flow
  Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2005 Conference (Juried Papers), January 11-14, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts.

2004

• The Cybercemetery: Prolonging Usable Afterlife
  The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) 2004 Archiving Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 20, 2004, pp. 169-171
  
  

• The University of North Texas Libraries' Portal to Texas History: Archival Challenges and Solutions
  Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Tucson, Arizona; June 7-11, 2004, p. 409.
  
  

• Architecture of a Centralized Portal to Distributed Information: Portal to Texas History Project
  Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum. October 7-10, 2004, St. Louis, Missouri.

2003

• The Future is in the Preservation Metadata
  Annual Conference of Texas Library Association (TLA), April 1-4, 2003, Houston, Texas. (Wednesday pp. 7).
  
  

• Targeted access for varied audiences to integrated, heterogeneous digital information resources
  Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, (ASIST), October 19-22, 2003, Long Beach, California. Volume 40, Issue 1, pp. 505 - 506

2002

• Designing information communities for the 3D environment: Preservation Metadata Issues and challenges.
  Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, (ASIST), November 18-21, 2002, Philadelphia, PA. Volume 39, Issue 1, pp. 518 - 518.
  
  

• Meeting the Digital Resources Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative.
  Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum. October 10-13, 2002, Houston, Texas.
  
  

• A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
  First Monday, Vol. 7, Number 8 (August 2002)

2000

• Storage of Electronic Files of Federal Agencies That Have Ceased Operation: A Partnership for Permanent Access
  Government Information Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 3, 3rd Quarter 2000, Pages 299-307.