Closing Session ETD 2008 11 th Int Symp

Closing Session ETD 2008: 11 th Int. Symp. on ETDs Aberdeen, Scotland Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD, www. ndltd. org fox@vt. edu Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA http: //fox. cs. vt. edu, Mobile: +1 -540 -230 -62661

Outline • Acknowledgements • Straw Polls, Discussion • Summary, Conclusions • Exciting news: ETD Guide now in wikibooks – http: //en. wikibooks. org/wiki/ETD_Guide

Acknowledgements • All those working with ETDs • NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members • ETD 2008 Conference Team • Sponsors • Presenters, Attendees

Board of Directors • • • • • Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank) • Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC) • Tony Cargnelutti • Vinod Chachra (VTLS) • William Clark (Ohio State U. ) Bruce Cochrane (Miami U. Ohio) • Susan Copeland (RGU, UK) Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U. ) • Edward A. Fox (Executive Director, Virginia Tech) • John H. Hagen (West Virginia U. ) • Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC) Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada) • Joan K. Lippincott (CNI) • Austin Mc. Lean (Treasurer, Proquest) Gail Mc. Millan (Secretary, Virginia Tech) Eva Müller (U. Uppsala, Sweden) Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil) Max Read (U. British Columbia) Sharon Reeves (Library and Archives of Canada) Peter Schirmbacher (ETD 2003, Humboldt) Samson Soong (Hong Kong U. Science & Technology) Hussein Suleman (U. Cape Town, S. Africa) Shalini R. Urs (U. Mysore, India) Eric F. Van de Velde (ETD 2001, Caltech) Ellen Wagner (Adobe) Xiaolin Zhang (National Science Library, China) 4

NDLTD Committees (Chairs) • • • Awards (John Hagen -> Christine Jewell) Conferences (Sharon Reeves) Development (Suzie Allard, John Hagen) Executive (Ed Fox) Finance (Austin Mc. Lean) Implementation (John Hagen) Membership (Eric Van de Velde) Nominating (Christine Jewell) Public Relations (Suzie Allard) Services & Standards (Ana Pavani, Thom Hickey) 5

Outline • Acknowledgements • Straw Polls, Discussion • Summary, Conclusions

Straw Poll 1 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Which part of the world would you like to visit for ETD 2010? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Latin America Caribbean North America Eastern Europe Africa India Asia - Pacific 7

Straw Poll 2 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Where in the world should a smaller regional ETD conference be held? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Latin America Caribbean North America Eastern Europe Africa India Asia - Pacific 8

Straw Poll 3 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Which focus do you have in your ETD-related activities/interests? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Graduate education Library / information science / practice University administration Policy and planning Electronic publishing Digital libraries Technology/science/development Other – please explain 9

Straw Poll 4 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Which of the following systems is most interesting to you? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Acrobat BEpress DSpace Eprints ETD-db Fedora Other – please explain 10

Straw Poll 5 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Which of the following DL-related areas is of most interest? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Overview – General information Digital objects Collection development Information / knowledge organization Architecture (of DL systems) 11

Straw Poll 6 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Which of the following DL-related areas is of most interest? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. User behavior / interactions Services Preservation Management and evaluation DL education / research 12

Straw Poll 7 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Which of the following DL-related sub-areas is of most interest? 1. Conceptual frameworks, theories, definitions about DL 2. File formats, transformation, migration 3. Digitization 4. Document and e-publishing / presentation, markup 5. Metadata 13

Straw Poll 8 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Which of the following DL-related sub-areas is of most interest? 1. Subject description, vocabulary control, thesauri, terminologies 2. Identifiers, handles, DOI, PURL 3. Online information seeking behaviors and search strategies 4. Web publishing: wiki, RSS, blogs 5. ETD DL case studies 6. Intellectual property / copyright 14

Straw Poll 9 • Please vote by raising your right hand for no more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD. • Which type of online community support would you use re ETDs? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Facebook Listserv Myspace Second Life Other – please explain 15

Straw Poll 10 • Please propose some other straw poll, or bring up another topic of interest, related to any or all of: • ETD conferences and workshops • Online NDLTD community – Second Life? … • Support services • Technology / systems developments • Other … 16

Review, Wrapup • Acknowledgements • Straw Polls, Discussion • Summary, Conclusions – Activities, Challenges – Spirit of NDLTD

Activities, Challenges • Build Collection – Promote richer use of ETDs – Enhance services for students (incl. ugrad) – Integrate with: institutional repositories, eportfolios, e-publishing, e-science, … • Build Community: local, national, regional 18

Spirit of NDLTD • • Help make a better (smaller) world Win-win (everyone can benefit) Have fun helping others Helpers/teachers learn more than those they work with • Build on standards • ETDs are preservable, popular, expressive, “better” • Doable, feasible, learnable, affordable, sharable • Please join/support NDLTD! 19