Category Archives: thinking outloud

In discussions of digital preservation services and workflows, the topic of aggregation comes up quite often. In fact this is one of those topics that tend to be discussed to death whenever a group of individuals representing various institutions come … Continue reading →

I had a conversation with someone last week about how libraries “integrate” born-digital content into their collections and wanted to do a little experiment to see exactly what the steps are in the system we’ve created here at UNT. I … Continue reading →

The UNT Digital Library uses the ARK identifier scheme as part of its persistent identifier strategy, below are some of the ways that a user can interact or hack a url. An object is identified with an ARK added to … Continue reading →

Aubrey is what we decided to call the system responsible for a variety of tasks which are all public facing. This system handles both content delivery as well as allowing collection owners to edit metadata and object records as needed. … Continue reading →

At the UNT Libraries we use BagIt as a key component of our digital strategy. It is a simple specification which doesn’t get in your way but offers a few niceties which come in quite handy. Let me walk you … Continue reading →

In the previous post I described the digital object model in use at the UNT Libraries for our digital content. This post is going to describe the process of getting content into our model. First off, and I say this … Continue reading →

This is the first in a series of posts about some of the infrastructure that sits behind the UNT Libraries’ digital library initiatives. That infrastructure looks like this to the public. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ and http://digital.library.unt.edu/ The digital object model we use … Continue reading →

So I woke up this morning, went downstairs to the cafe across the street to order my espresso and croissant (which I tried to do in French but they kept talking to me in English… grrr…) came upstairs to the … Continue reading →

Today was the first real day of sight seeing, the day started with loud noises from the street below, I left the window open in order to keep it somewhat cool in the room and in the morning the fact … Continue reading →

So here is going to be my awful attempt at writing a travel journal for my trip, I know I will at least get one posting up but not sure about others. So I am in Paris, France for the … Continue reading →