La Propuesta de Software de Cdigo Abierto Su

La Propuesta de Software de Código Abierto: Su Lugar en la Educación Superior Universidad de Buenos Aires May 19, 2004 Edward A. Fox fox@vt. edu http: //fox. cs. vt. edu

Acknowledgements (Selected) • Sponsors: ACM, Adobe, AOL, IBM, Microsoft, NASA, NLM, NSF, OCLC, SUN, US Dept. of Ed. • VT Faculty/Staff: Debra Dudley, Weiguo Fan, Gail Mc. Millan, Manuel Perez, Naren Ramakrishnan, Layne Watson, … • VT Students: Yuxin Chen, Shahrooz Feizabadi, Marcos Gonçalves, Nithiwat Kampanya, S. H. Kim, Bing Liu, Paul Mather, Fernando Das Neves, Unni. Ravindranathan, Ryan Richardson, Rao Shen, Ricardo Torres, Wensi Xi, Baoping Zhang, Qinwei Zhu, …

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (NDLTD) • NDLTD Board of Directors, previous Steering Committee + other NDLTD committees; those running Electronic Thesis & Dissertation (ETD) initiatives in universities, regions, countries • Helpful sponsorship by many organizations, especially Adobe (new initiative!), CONACy. T, DFG, FIPSE (US Dept. Education), IBM, Microsoft, NSF (IIS-9986089, 0086227, 0080748, 0325579; DUE 0121679, 0136690, 0121741, 0333601), OCLC, SOLINET, SUN, SURA, UNESCO, VTLS, many governments (Australia, Germany, India, …), … • Colleagues at Virginia Tech (faculty, staff, students), and collaborators at many universities • Slides included from: Vinod Chachra, Thom Hickey, Joan Lippincott, Gail Mc. Millan, Axel Plathe, Hussein Suleman, …

Other Collaborators (Selected) • • • Brazil: FUA, UFMG, UNICAMP Case Western Reserve University Emory, Notre Dame, Oregon State Germany: Univ. Oldenburg Mexico: UDLA (Puebla), Monterrey College of NJ, Hofstra, Penn State, Villanova University of Arizona University of Florida, Univ. of Illinois University of Virginia • Endowment: VTLS

UNESCO • Cláudio Menezes [cmenezes@unesco. org. uy] • Purpose: • Reinforce local solutions, commitments • Emphasize: • • • ETD does not need many resources. Open source and free software is available. International cooperation can help. Local training is crucial. => Inclusion of ETD in practices, processes => Schedule for ETD projects

Part 3 Open Source and Higher Education

Conceptual Category Feature Name WCET Discovery Tools Searching LOR Browsing Study Syndication & Notification 2004 Aggregation Tools Personal Collections Content Aggregator and Packaging Tool Community & Evaluation System Context Usage Illustrators Wish Lists

Meta-tagging Metadata Markup Tool Schema Support Indexing Workflow Support Import and Export Tools Unique Identifier Support Content Management Authoring and Publishing Workflow Support Version Control & Archiving Functions Authoring tools

Digital Rights Management & Fulfillment Digital Rights Management Payment and Fulfillment Presentation and Consortia Issues Accessibility Multiple output formats Customized Look and Feel Internationalization (I 18 n) Multiple Collections Media Transformation and Display

Technical Considerations Authentication Authorization & Personalization Usage reporting Unix/Linux/Apple Server Support Windows Server Support Application Server Requirements Database Requirements Scalability Tech Model Support Staffing Requirements Client Browser Requirements