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ETD 2005
(Sydney, Australia – September 26, 2005)
“NDLTD Update:
Past, Present, Future, and the
Expanding ETD Community”
Edward A. Fox
Executive Director, NDLTD
[email protected] --- Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
http://fox.cs.vt.edu, Cell: +1-540-230-6266
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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, ProQuest, 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
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Quality and the Information Life Cycle
Active
Accura
cy
Comple
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Conform ness
ance
Timeliness
Similarity
Preservability
Describing
Organizing
Indexing
Authoring
Modifying
Semi-Active
Pertinence
Retention
Significance
Mining
Creation
Accessibility
Storing
Accessing
Timeliness
Filtering
Utilization
Archiving
Distribution
Seeking
Discard
Inactive
Ac
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ssi
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Networking P
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ab
ilit
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Searching
Browsing
Recommending
Relevance
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RELATED
TOPICS
CORE DL
TOPICS
COURSE
STRUCTURE
DL Curriculum Framework
Semester 1:
DL collections:
development/creation
Digitization
Storage
Interchange
Metadata
Cataloging
Author
submission
Digital objects
Composites
Packages
Semester 2:
DL services and
sustainability
Architectures
(agents, buses,
wrappers/mediators)
Interoperability
Spaces
(conceptual,
geographic,
2/3D, VR)
Documents
E-publishing
Markup
Multimedia
streams/structures
Capture/representation
Compression/coding
Bibliographic
information
Bibliometrics
Citations
Content-based
analysis
Multimedia
indexing
Naming
Repositories
Archives
Services
(searching,
linking,
browsing, etc.)
Archiving and
preservation
Integrity
Architectures
(agents, buses,
wrappers/mediators)
Interoperability
Thesauri
Ontologies
Classification
Categorization
Multimedia
presentation,
rendering
Info. Needs
Relevance
Evaluation
Effectiveness
Intellectual property
rights mgmt.
Privacy
Protection (watermarking)
Routing
Filtering
Community
filtering
Search & search strategy
Info seeking behavior
User modeling
Feedback
Info
summarization
Visualization
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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
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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
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Conference Summary Phrases - 1
alumni development
always on
business model
concept map
content management
copyright compliance
cost effective
Creative Commons
creative material
cross language
dark archive
developing country
digital library
digital rights management
digital signature
disruptive technology
document model
Dublin Core
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Conference Summary Phrases - 2
e-knowledge
e-publishing
e-research
e-science
full text
Google Scholar
institutional repository
LDAP server
learning object
mandatory deposit
Million Book Project
national initiative
Net Gen
OAI PMH
online digital studio
open access
Open Archives Initiative
open source
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Conference Summary Phrases - 3
persistent identifiers
postgraduate research
public domain
restricted access
retrospective conversion
scholarly communication
server log
service oriented architecture
social network
stepping stone
subject gateway
survey data
union catalog
unlocking IP
user centered
value added
voluntary participation
walking the talk
web based
web services
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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 McMillan)
– Treasurer (Scott Eldredge)
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Board of Directors (2005)
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Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky)
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Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank)
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Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC)
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José Luis Borbinha (Natl Lib Portugal)
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Alex Byrne (ETD 2005, ADT: Australia) •
Tony Cargnelutti (ETD 2005, Australia) •
Vinod Chachra (VTLS)
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Susan Copeland (RGU, UK)
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Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U.) •
Scott Eldredge (Treasurer, ETD 2002,
BYU)
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Edward A. Fox (Exec Director,Virginia Tech)
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John H. Hagen (West Virginia U.)
Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC)
Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada) •
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Delphine Lewis (ProQuest)
Joan K. Lippincott (CNI)
Mike Looney (Adobe)
Gail McMillan (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)
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Board of Directors (2006)
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Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky)
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Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank)
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Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC)
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José Luis Borbinha (Natl Lib Portugal)
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Alex Byrne (ETD 2005, ADT: Australia) •
Tony Cargnelutti (ETD 2005, Australia) •
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Vinod Chachra (VTLS)
William Clark (Ohio State U.)
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Susan Copeland (RGU, UK)
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Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U.)
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Scott Eldredge (Treasurer, ETD 2002,
BYU)
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Edward A. Fox (Exec Director,Virginia Tech)
John H. Hagen (West Virginia U.)
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Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC)
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Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada)
Joan K. Lippincott (CNI)
Mike Looney (Adobe)
Austin McLean (ProQuest)
Gail McMillan (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)
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NDLTD Committees (Chairs)
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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)
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Selected Projects / Sponsors
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Australia (ADT)
Brazil (BDT, IBICT)
Canada
Catalunya
Chile (Cybertesis)
China (CALIS)
Germany
India (Vidyanidhi)
Korea
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colleges/univs
• Portugal (National
Library)
• South Africa
• UK (British Library,
JISC, Edinburgh, …)
• UNESCO (especially
Latin America,
Eastern Europe,
Africa)
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Some Countries
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Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China, Hong Kong
Columbia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
India
Italy
Jamaica
Korea
Lithuania
Malaysia
Mexico
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Namibia
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Russia
Singapore
S. Africa
S. Korea
Spain
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
USA
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
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Some Institutional Members
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British Library
Cinemedia
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)
Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya
Diplomica.com
Dissertation.com
Dissertationen Online (Germany)
ETDweb, a Division of Answer4.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
OhioLINK
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 WorldCat (so, from
many sites!).
• Will harvest from all others who contact:
Tom Dehn ([email protected]), Thom Hickey
([email protected])
• Need DC and either ETD-MS or MARC.
• Has a set for ETDs.
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OCLC SRU Interface
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ETD Union Search Mirror Site in China (CALIS)
(http://ndltd.calis.edu.cn – popular site!)
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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:
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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)
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Future Work – 2 of 3
• Promote use of ETDs
– Collaborate with Scirus, Google Scholar, …
– Support students so have DOIs, resolved
references, XML works, MD5 hash, authority
records, additional training
– Support cross language, multilingual,
multimedia search/browse
– Provide aids to classification into DDC,
domain-specific classification systems, etc.
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The World According to OAI
Service Providers
Discovery
Current
Awareness
Preservation
Data Providers
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OAI – Black Box Perspective
OA 7
OA 4
OA 2
OA 1
OA 3
OA 6
OA 5
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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)
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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
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How? Steps
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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., …
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Questions?
Discussion?
Recommendations?
Thank You!
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