Transcript Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, and Societies (5S

Closing Session
ETD 2008: 11th Int. Symp. on ETDs
Aberdeen, Scotland
Edward A. Fox
Executive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.org
[email protected]
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
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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 McLean (Treasurer, Proquest)
Gail McMillan (Secretary, Virginia Tech)
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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)
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NDLTD Committees (Chairs)
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Awards (John Hagen -> Christine Jewell)
Conferences (Sharon Reeves)
Development (Suzie Allard, John Hagen)
Executive (Ed Fox)
Finance (Austin McLean)
Implementation (John Hagen)
Membership (Eric Van de Velde)
Nominating (Christine Jewell)
Public Relations (Suzie Allard)
Services & Standards (Ana Pavani, Thom
Hickey)
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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?
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Latin America
Caribbean
North America
Eastern Europe
Africa
India
Asia - Pacific
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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?
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Latin America
Caribbean
North America
Eastern Europe
Africa
India
Asia - Pacific
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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?
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Graduate education
Library / information science / practice
University administration
Policy and planning
Electronic publishing
Digital libraries
Technology/science/development
Other – please explain
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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?
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Acrobat
BEpress
DSpace
Eprints
ETD-db
Fedora
Other – please explain
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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?
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Overview – General information
Digital objects
Collection development
Information / knowledge organization
Architecture (of DL systems)
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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?
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User behavior / interactions
Services
Preservation
Management and evaluation
DL education / research
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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
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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
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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?
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Facebook
Listserv
Myspace
Second Life
Other – please explain
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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 …
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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
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Spirit of NDLTD
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Help make a better (smaller) world
Win-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!
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