La Propuesta de Software de Código Abierto: Su Lugar en la
Educación Superior
Universidad de Buenos Aires May 19, 2004
Edward A. Fox
[email protected] 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 McMillan, 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!), CONACyT, 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 McMillan, 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 [[email protected]]• 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
Discovery Tools
Searching
Browsing
Syndication & Notification
Aggregation Tools
Personal Collections
Content Aggregator and Packaging Tool
Community & Evaluation
Evaluation System
Context Usage Illustrators
Wish Lists
WCET
LOR
Study
2004
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 (I18n)
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
Pricing/Licensing/ Other
Company Profile
Number of installations
Costs/Licensing Model
Open Source
Other
Integration and Interoperability
Federation and Harvesting
Course Management Integration
ePortfolios Integration
API and Web Service support
Questions/Discussion?