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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

fox@vt.edu --- 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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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 (dehn@oclc.org), Thom Hickey (hickey@oclc.org)

• 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

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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!