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ETD 2005(Sydney, Australia – September 26, 2005)
“NDLTD Update:Past, Present, Future, and theExpanding ETD Community”
Edward A. FoxExecutive Director, NDLTD
[email protected] --- Virginia TechBlacksburg, VA 24061 USA
http://fox.cs.vt.edu, Cell: +1-540-230-6266
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?
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Asynchronous, Digital Library Mediated Scholarly Communication
Different time and/or place
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AuthoringModifying
OrganizingIndexing
Storing
Archiving
NetworkingAccessing
Filtering
Creation
DistributionUtilization
Significance
Similarity
Pertinence
AccuracyCompletenessConformance
Seeking
SearchingBrowsingRecommending
Relevance
Timeliness
Accessibility
Accessibility
Inactive
Active
Discard
RetentionMining
Semi-Active
Preservability
Timeliness
Preservability
Describing
Quality and the Information Life Cycle
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DL Curriculum FrameworkSemester 1:
DL collections:development/creation
Semester 2:DL services and
sustainability
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DigitizationStorage
Interchange
Digital objectsCompositesPackages
MetadataCataloging
Author submission
NamingRepositories
Archives
Spaces(conceptual,geographic,2/3D, VR)
Architectures(agents, buses,
wrappers/mediators)Interoperability
Services(searching,
linking, browsing, etc.)
Intellectual property rights mgmt.
PrivacyProtection (watermarking)
Archiving and preservation
Integrity
Architectures(agents, buses,
wrappers/mediators)Interoperability
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PIC
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DocumentsE-publishing
Markup
Info. NeedsRelevanceEvaluation
Effectiveness
ThesauriOntologies
ClassificationCategorization
Bibliographic information
BibliometricsCitations
RoutingFiltering
Community filtering
Search & search strategyInfo seeking behavior
User modelingFeedback
Info summarizationVisualization
Multimedia streams/structures
Capture/representationCompression/coding
Content-based analysis
Multimedia indexing
Multimediapresentation,
rendering
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LA
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ICS
Contents
• Digital libraries
• Summary of conference terms, phrases
• NDLTD, services
• Future Work
• Why ETDs?
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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
Contents
• Digital libraries
• Summary of conference terms, phrases
• NDLTD, services
• Future Work
• Why ETDs?
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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)• 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 (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)• 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 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)• 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
• Australia (ADT)• Brazil (BDT, IBICT)• Canada• Catalunya• Chile (Cybertesis)• China (CALIS)• Germany• India (Vidyanidhi)• Korea
• OhioLINK: 79 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• 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
Some Institutional Members• 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?
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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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DiscoveryCurrent
AwarenessPreservation
Service Providers
Data Providers
Metadata
harvestin
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The World According to OAI
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OAI – Black Box Perspective
OA 1
OA 2
OA 4
OA 3
OA 5OA 6
OA 7
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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)
Contents
• Digital libraries
• Summary of conference terms, phrases
• NDLTD, services
• Future Work
• Why ETDs?
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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
• 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!