Publications and Presentations

2011

• Open Access and Scholarly Communication:  The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship,
  ASIS&T 2011 Annual Meeting, October 9-11, 2011, New Orleans, LA
  [Also published in the Proceedings of the 74th ASIS&T Annual Meeting,  Volume 48:"Bridging the Gulf:  Communication and Information in Society, Technology, and Work" ISBN:].
  
  
• Open Access at the UNT Libraries,
  UNT's 2nd Annual Symposium on Open Access , May 20th, 2011, Denton, Texas.
  
  
• Data desiccation: facilitating long-term access, use, and reuse of ETDs,
  The 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD-2011), 13-17 September 2011, Cape Town, South Africa.
  
  

• Retrospective Digitization of Theses and Dissertations: Revisiting Issues and Considerations,
  United States Electronic Theses and Dissertations Association (USETDA) 2011 Conference, May 18-20, 2011, Orlando, Florida.
  
  

• Curation of the End-of-Term Web Archive: Classification and Metrics,
  The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), Archiving Conference (Archiving-2011), May 16-19, 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  
  
• Assessing the usage of electronic theses and dissertations: An overview of ETD statistics and metric in the UNT Libraries,
  Texas ETD Association 2011 Conference (TxETDA), March 31, 2011, Arlington, TX.

2010

• Exploration of Adoption of Preservation Metadata in Cultural Heritage Institutions: Case of PREMIS,
  The 2010 ASIS&T Annual  Conference, October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.
  [Also published in the Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting,  Volume 47: Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, ISBN: 0-87715-542-9].
  
  
• Better Guidelines, Better Functionality: How Metadata Supports the Cycle of System Improvement at UNT
  International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2010), October 20-22, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.
  
  
• Integration of ETD into Topical Digital Library Collections: Facilitating ETD USE and Reuse,
  The 13th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD-2010), June 16-18, 2010, Austin, Texas.
  
  
• Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Redesign the Interface to the Portal to Texas History: The IOGeNe Project
  The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), Archiving Conference (Archiving 2010), June 01- 04, 2010, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
  
  
• Open Source Components, Standards Conformance, and UCD: Building Blocks for Successfully Managing and enhancing an established Digital Archive.
  The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), Archiving Conference (Archiving 2010), June 01- 04, 2010, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
  
  
• TDL Metadata Working Group Update
  The 4th annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL 2010), May 17-17, 2010, AT&T Conference Center, Austin, Texas.
  
  
• Digitization Expo - Introduction to Metadata
  3rd Annual Digitization Expo, April 14, 2010 (part of the Texas Library Association Annual Conference 2010), San Antonio, Texas.
  
  
• Digital Collection Development Policy: From Documenting Content to Documenting Process,
  The meeting of the Document Academy DOCAM’10, March 19-21, 2010, Denton, Texas.
  

2009

• Metadata Quality Assessment: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Resources,
  The 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, November 6-11, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  [ Also published in the Proceedings of the 72nd ASIS&T Annual Meeting,  Volume 46: Thriving on Diversity - Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World; ISBN: 0-87715-541-0].
  
  
• The Portal to Texas History
  Access 2009 Conference, October 1-3, 2009, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  [Video of the presentation is also available.]
  
  
• Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions,
  The 2009 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 15-19, 2009, Austin, Texas.
  [Also published in the Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, p. 357-358; ISBN:978-1-60558-322-8]
  
  

• Redesigning the Portal to Texas History: A User-centered Design Approach Involving the Genealogical Community,
  The 3rd annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL), May 27-28, 2009, Austin, Texas.
  
  
• Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied,
  The 3rd annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL), May 27-28, 2009, Austin, Texas.
  
  
• Effective Tools for Digital Object Management,
  The 3rd annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL), May 27-28, 2009, Austin, Texas.
  
  

• Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library,
  The 3rd annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL), May 27-28, 2009, Austin, Texas.
  
  
• Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries Experience,
  The 3rd annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL), May 27-28, 2009, Austin, Texas.
  
  

• Barriers to Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions: An Exploratory Study,
  The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T), Archiving Conference (Archiving 2009), May 04-07, 2009, Arlington, Virginia.
  [Also published in the Proceedings of Archiving 2009, p. 113-118; ISBN / ISSN: 978-0-89208-284-1]
  
  

2008

• Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
  International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) and The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), October 23-29, 2008, Colombus, Ohio.
  [ Also published in the Series on Innovation and Knowledge Management - Vol. 7, p. 313 - 322; ISBN: 13-978-981-283-756-1].
  
  
• Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.0
  The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM), October 23-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
  
  
• 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, pp. 75-79. (ISBN: 978-0-89208-270-4)].
  
  
• Creating Collections: Capturing and Preserving Web Resources
  12th Annual Collection Development Symposium, May 14, 2007, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
  
  
• 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
  Coalition 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.
  [Also published in the Proceedings of Archiving 2004, p. 169-171; ISBN / ISSN: 0-89208-251-8]
  
  

• 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.