ETD 2005 Sydney Australia September 26 2005 NDLTD
ETD 2005 (Sydney, Australia – September 26, 2005) “NDLTD Update: Past, Present, Future, and the Expanding ETD Community” Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD fox@vt. edu --- Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA http: //fox. cs. vt. edu, Cell: +1 -540 -230 -6266 1
Acknowledgements • NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members (and earlier steering committee) • ETD 2005 Conference Team • ADT, including Committees and Members • Faculty, Staff, Students at Virginia Tech and at institutions collaborating with us • Sponsors, including – Adobe, DFG, FIPSE, Harvest Road, IBM, Microsoft, NSF, OSI, Pro. Quest, Scirus, SURA, Thompson, UNESCO, UNSW, VTLS, …
Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of conference terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Why ETDs?
Asynchronous, Digital Library Mediated Scholarly Communication Different time and/or place 4
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Quality and the Information Life Cycle 7
DL Curriculum Framework 8
Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of conference terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Why ETDs?
Conference Summary Words - 1 accessibility aggregation alert annotate archive arts attitudes authentication authoring authorization automation browse catalog collaboration community components context conversion customer decentralized digitize discourse discovery dissemination DSpace federated Fedora global grid economic harvesting ingest innovation institutional integrity interaction 10
Conference Summary Words - 2 interchange interoperability knowledge LOCKSS management metadata national OCR organization partnership PDF (/A) podcasting portal preservation provider regional repository retrieval scalability Scirus search server service sharing standardization strategic student summarization sustainable testimonial toolkit training tutorial Unicode usable VALET XML XSLT workflow 11
Conference Summary Phrases - 1 alumni develo pment always on business model concept map content manag ement copyright complianc e cost Creative effectiv Commons e creative cross materia language l dark developing 12
Conference Summary Phrases - 2 e- eknowledg e e-research publis hing escienc e full text Google Schol ar institutional LDAP repositor server y learning object mandato ry depos it 13
Conference Summary Phrases - 3 persistent identifier s postgraduate research public domain restricted access retrospectiv scholarly e communic conversi ation on server log service oriented architectur e social network stepping stone 14
Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of conference terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Why ETDs?
NDLTD Incorporation • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations incorporated May 20, 2003 in Virginia, USA • Charitable and educational purposes (501 c 3) • Officers – Executive Director (Ed Fox) – Secretary (Gail Mc. Millan) – Treasurer (Scott Eldredge) 16
Board of Directors (2005) • • • • Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank) Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC) José Luis Borbinha (Natl Lib Portugal) Alex Byrne (ETD 2005, ADT: Australia) Tony Cargnelutti (ETD 2005, Australia) Vinod Chachra (VTLS) Susan Copeland (RGU, UK) Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U. ) Scott Eldredge (Treasurer, ETD 2002, BYU) Edward A. Fox (Exec Director, Virginia Tech) John H. Hagen (West Virginia U. ) Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC) Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada) • • • • Delphine Lewis (Pro. Quest) Joan K. Lippincott (CNI) Mike Looney (Adobe) Gail Mc. Millan (Secretary, Virginia Tech) Joseph Moxley (ETD 2000, USF) Eva Müller (U. Uppsala, Sweden) Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil) Axel Plathe (UNESCO, Paris) Sharon Reeves (National Library Canada) Peter Schirmbacher (ETD 2003, Humboldt) Hussein Suleman (U. Cape Town, S. Africa) Shalini R. Urs (U. Mysore, India) Eric F. Van de Velde (ETD 2001, Caltech) 17
Board of Directors (2006) • • • • Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank) Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC) José Luis Borbinha (Natl Lib Portugal) Alex Byrne (ETD 2005, ADT: Australia) Tony Cargnelutti (ETD 2005, Australia) Vinod Chachra (VTLS) William Clark (Ohio State U. ) Susan Copeland (RGU, UK) Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U. ) Scott Eldredge (Treasurer, ETD 2002, BYU) Edward A. Fox (Exec Director, Virginia Tech) John H. Hagen (West Virginia U. ) Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC) • • • • Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada) Joan K. Lippincott (CNI) Mike Looney (Adobe) Austin Mc. Lean (Pro. Quest) Gail Mc. Millan (Secretary, Virginia Tech) Joseph Moxley (ETD 2000, USF) Eva Müller (U. Uppsala, Sweden) Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil) Sharon Reeves (National Library Canada) Peter Schirmbacher (ETD 2003, Humboldt) Hussein Suleman (U. Cape Town, S. Africa) Shalini R. Urs (U. Mysore, India) Eric F. Van de Velde (ETD 2001, Caltech) 18
NDLTD Committees (Chairs) • • • Awards (John Hagen) Conferences (Sharon Reeves) Development (Peter Schirmbacher) Executive (Edward Fox) Finance (Scott Eldredge) Implementation (Ana Pavani) Membership (Tony Cargnelutti) Nominating (Joan Lippincott) Standards (Thomas B. Hickey) Union Catalog (Vinod Chachra) 19
Selected Projects / Sponsors • • • Australia (ADT) Brazil (BDT, IBICT) Canada Catalunya Chile (Cybertesis) China (CALIS) Germany India (Vidyanidhi) Korea • Ohio. LINK: 79 colleges/univs • Portugal (National Library) • South Africa • UK (British Library, JISC, Edinburgh, …) • UNESCO (especially Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa) • … 20
Some Countries • • • • • Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China, Hong Kong Columbia Finland France Germany Greece India Italy Jamaica Korea Lithuania Malaysia Mexico • • • • • Namibia Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Singapore S. Africa S. Korea Spain Sudan Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey UK USA Venezuela Yugoslavia 21
Some Institutional Members • • • • • British Library Cinemedia Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya Diplomica. com Dissertationen Online (Germany) ETDweb, a Division of Answer 4. com Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) National Documentation Centre (NDC), Greece National Library of Portugal (for all universities) OCLC Online Computer Library Center Ohio. LINK Organization of American States (SEDI/OAS) Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) UNESCO (www. unesco. org/webworld/etd)
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Union catalog: OCLC • OCLC runs OAI data provider on ETDs. • Is getting data from World. Cat (so, from many sites!). • Will harvest from all others who contact: Tom Dehn (dehn@oclc. org), Thom Hickey (hickey@oclc. org) • Need DC and either ETD-MS or MARC. • Has a set for ETDs. 25
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OCLC SRU Interface 29
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ETD Union Search Mirror Site in China (CALIS) (http: //ndltd. calis. edu. cn – popular site!) 31
VTLS • VTLS offers its free VALET system to manage ETDs at institutions, building upon Fedora, as well as VTLS software. • VTLS runs a service provider atop the Union Catalog. It supports multilingual access. See screen dump: 32
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Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of conference terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Why ETDs?
Future Work – 1 of 3 • Collection – Cover all universities in Australia, the region, and the world – Expand from dissertations to theses to undergrad theses to reports to e-portfolios – Add in page images of back files or at least bib records (retrospective) 35
Future Work – 2 of 3 • Promote use of ETDs – Collaborate with Scirus, Google Scholar, … – Support students so have DOIs, resolved references, XML works, MD 5 hash, authority records, additional training – Support cross language, multilingual, multimedia search/browse – Provide aids to classification into DDC, domain-specific classification systems, etc. 36
The World According to OAI Service Providers Discovery Current Awareness Preservation Metadata harvesting Data Providers 37
OAI – Black Box Perspective OA 7 OA 4 OA 2 OA 1 OA 3 OA 6 OA 5 38
Future Work – 3 of 3 • Enhance services for students – Help students with electronic submission, e-pub, multimedia, hypermedia, electronic data sets, electronic lab notebooks – Support students with annotations, threaded discussions, recommenders – Support work with early versions of ETDs for collaboration, with limited access and chat groups – Encourage submission of PPT, video of defense (or a rerun) 39
Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of conference terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Why ETDs?
Why ETD? Short Answer • For Students: – Gain knowledge and skills for the Information Age – Richer communication (digital information, multimedia, …) • For Universities: – Easy way to enter the digital library field and benefit thereby • For the World: – Global digital library – large, useful, many services • General: – Save time and money – Increased visibility for all associated with research results 41
How? Steps • • • Attend ETD xx Join NDLTD Launch initiative, dialog, encourage Pilot -> requirement OAI data provider DINI-Certificate Log, survey, analyze, improve Help other sites Serve on NDLTD committees Extend services: preservation, inst. rep. , … 42
Questions? Discussion? Recommendations? Thank You! 43
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