Managing Serials in a Large Digital Library: Case Study of the UNT Libraries Digital Collections

Abstract

The Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu) and the UNT Digital Library (http://digital.library.unt.edu) contain more than 445,000 items collectively, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries. These collections include a variety of serial publications such as newsletters, magazines, scholarly journals, annual reports, and yearbooks. Many of these serials are key resources for the user groups of both repositories. In this paper, we discuss the importance of serials within our collections, some of the challenges, the standards we use, and how we leverage metadata to facilitate access to serials for diverse global users.

Quality over time: A longitudinal quantitative analysis of metadata change in RDA‐based MARC bibliographic records representing video resources

“…Only two studies attempted to identify and measure change in metadata records in digital library environment, with a focus on item‐level and collection‐level metadata respectively (Tarver et. al., ; Zavalina et al, ). Recently, an in‐depth study in which a team of researchers qualitatively categorized metadata change in digital library metadata and compared it with traditional library metadata change categories was conducted (Zavalina et al, ; Zavalina & Kizhakkethil, ; Zavalina, Shakeri, & Kizhakkethil, ).…”

“…This is in part due to the lack of information systems that include a metadata versioning functionality. Only two studies attempted to identify and measure change in metadata records in digital library environment, with a focus on item-level and collection-level metadata respectively (Tarver et. al., 2014;Zavalina et al, 2008).…”

Managing Serials in a Large Digital Library: Case Study of the UNT Libraries Digital Collections

“…This paper summarizes a presentation of the same title, given at the NASIG 2014 conference in Fort Worth, Texas 1 .…”

Extended date/time format (EDTF) in the digital public library of America's metadata: Exploratory analysis

“…EDTF structure comprises of three levels (0–2); level 0 supports basic features while levels 1 and 2 provide more options for flexibility and complexity while also complying with preceding levels (“EDTF introduction”, http://loc.gov, 2012). Tarver and colleagues (Tarver & Phillips, ; Tarver, Waugh, Alemneh, & Phillips, ), analyze importance of dates metadata in describing serial publications and discuss the advantages that implementation of EDTF at University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries provides through the availability of formats that meets all the date requirements for items in the organization's digital collections and whose adoption could prove to be advantageous for other cultural heritage institutions through the provision of flexible date/time formats not provided by other standards. They also note that the standardization through the usage of EDTF for complex dates can improve metadata interoperability and result in complete and consistent information provision to users.…”