Welcome remarks,Conference opening/introduction ETD 2004University of Kentucky June 3, 2004 : Welcome remarks, Conference opening/introduction ETD 2004 University of Kentucky June 3, 2004 Edward A. Fox
fox@vt.edu http://fox.cs.vt.edu
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (NDLTD) : ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (NDLTD) NDLTD Board of Directors, previous Steering Committee + other NDLTD committees; those running Electronic Thesis andamp; 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, …
Slide3 : The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations www.NDLTD.org Leader of the Worldwide ETD
(Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) Initiative Training Authors
Expanding Access
Preserving Knowledge
Improving Graduate Education
Enhancing Scholarly Communication
Empowering Students andamp; Universities
www.ndltd.org : www.ndltd.org
What led to today’s meeting? : What led to today’s meeting? 1987 mtg in Ann Arbor: UMI, VT, …
1992 mtg in Washington: CNI, CGS, UMI, VT and 10 universities with 3 reps each
1993 mtg in Atlanta to start Monticello Electronic Library (regional, US Southeast): SURA, SOLINET
1994 mtg at VT: std: PDF + SGML + multimedia objects
1996 funding by SURA, US Dept. of Education (FIPSE)
1997 meetings in UK, Germany, ...
1998 – 1st symposium – Memphis (20)
1999 – 2nd symposium – Blacksburg (70)
2000 – 3rd symposium – St. Petersburg (225)
2001 – 4th symposium – Caltech (200)
2002 – 5th syposium – BYU, Provo, Utah
2003 – 6th syposium – Berlin (215)
2004 – 7th syposium – U. Kentucky
2005 – 8th syposium – Sydney, Australia
What are we doing? : Aiding universities to enhance graduate education, publishing and IPR efforts
Helping improve the availability and content of theses and dissertations
Educating ALL future scholars so they can publish electronically and effectively use digital libraries (i.e., are Information Literate and can be more expressive) What are we doing?
NDLTD Incorporation : NDLTD Incorporation Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations incorporated May 20, 2003 in Virginia, USA
Charitable and educational purposes (501 c 3)
Can accept donations, collect dues, receive funds
LeClair Ryan provides legal counsel
Officers
Executive Director (Ed Fox)
Secretary (Gail McMillan)
Treasurer (Scott Eldredge)
Board of Directors : Board of Directors Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky)
Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank)
Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC)
José Luis Borbinha (National 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. Univ.)
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)
NDLTD Committees (Chairs) : NDLTD Committees (Chairs) Awards (John Hagen)
Conferences (Tony Cargnelutti)
Development (Peter Schirmbacher)
Executive (Edward Fox)
Finance (Scott Eldredge)
Implementation (Ana Pavani)
Membership (Shalini Urs)
Nominating (Sharon Reeves)
Standards (Thomas B. Hickey)
Union Catalog (Vinod Chachra)
NDLTD Committee Activities : NDLTD Committee Activities Implementation (Ana Pavani)
How to apply standards?
How to coordinate a national program?
How to launch a pilot project?
How to train students regarding copyright, digital libraries, electronic publishing, preservation, …?
Membership (Shalini Urs)
How to double membership in 2 years?
How to extend member services?
Membership Info : Membership Info Categories
University
Consortium
Supporting organization
Individual
Benefits
Supporting ETD initiatives worldwide, union catalog, …
NDLTD awards/committees/Board, conf discounts/exhibits/displays
Mentoring, lecture series, tutorials, web space
Free to start, automated/letter
Online system improving
Want persistence of contact
NDLTD Membership : NDLTD Membership
Selected Projects / Sponsors : Selected Projects / Sponsors Australia (ADT)
Brazil (BDT, IBICT)
Canada
Catalunya
Chile (Cybertesis)
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)
Venezuela
Some Countries : 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 : 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 andamp; 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)
UNESCO and ETDs(by Axel Plathe at ETD2003) : UNESCO and ETDs (by Axel Plathe at ETD2003) Promoting the use of the Internet as a tool for disseminating scientific knowledge
Facilitating the transfer of ETD expertise from developed to developing countries
1998: Member of the NDLTD Steering Committee
1999: First UNESCO ETD meeting on ETD internationalisation
2002: 'UNESCO Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations'
2003: Model training programmes and training courses
2003: Sponsor pilot projects
2003: Pilot projects (Africa, Europe, Latin-America)
Slide17 : Convene Local Planning Group
ETD project participants : ETD project participants Academic administrators
Faculty
Students
Staff
Graduate school / provost / registrar
Information technologists
Librarians
Slide19 : Build Local ETD Site Digital Library
Slide20 : NDLTD Computer Resources Research Literature Student Prepares Thesis/Dissertation
Slide21 : Student Defends andamp; Finalizes ETD
Slide22 : Student Gets Committee
Signatures and Submits ETD
Slide23 : Graduate School Approves ETD,
Student is Graduated
Slide24 : Library Catalogs ETD, Access is
Opened to the New Research WWW NDLTD
Access Possibilities : Access Possibilities Web
search
engines library
catalog
clients www.
theses.
org www.
openarchives.
org 3rd
Party
Services
(e.g.,
UMI) Virginia
Tech National
Library of
Portugal CBUC
(Spain) Ohio
Link MIT National
Projects:
AU, GE, …
ETD Union Collection (OAI) : ETD Union Collection (OAI)
Union catalog: OCLC : Union catalog: OCLC OCLC will expand OAI data provider on TDs.
Is getting data from WorldCat (so, from many sites!).
Will harvest from all others who contact them.
Need DC and either ETD-MS or MARC.
Set for ETDs, from overr 40 repositories, now with over 110K records
Sets in OCLC Union Catalog : Sets in OCLC Union Catalog
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Union catalog: VTLS, VT : Union catalog: VTLS, VT VTLS will enhance search/browse service for ETDs
Will harvest from OCLC’s set of ETD records
Will receive through other mechanisms
Will work with MARC-21 and ETD-MS
VT will continue to offer experimental services
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NDLTD Union CatalogContent Languages : NDLTD Union Catalog Content Languages
The VTLS NDLTD Union Catalog has data in 6 different languages. These are:
English
German
Greek
Korean
Portuguese
Spanish
Examples follow
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ETD-MS : ETD-MS ETD Metadata Standard
XML-encoded metadata standard (content and encoding) for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
in part conforming to Dublin Core (DC)
using RDF
using UNICODE
With specified relationship to MARC
Complex to Simple : Complex to Simple MARC ($50) Dublin Core (DC) +
thesis
Added Support by NDLTD : Added Support by NDLTD Links from NDLTD site
ETD individuals support – submit ETD
ETD discussion (e-prints) – community activities
Conference papers and presentations – community activities
Automated support to 'join NDLTD'
Marcel Dekker book now available
Edward A. Fox, Shahrooz Feizbadi, Joseph M. Moxley, and Christian R. Weisser, eds., The ETD Sourcebook: Theses and Dissertations in the Electronic Age, New York: Marcel Dekker, 2004
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Selected Links - http://fox.cs.vt.edu : Selected Links - http://fox.cs.vt.edu NDLTD (electronic theses and dissertations worldwide)
www.ndltd.org and etdguide.org
OAI (Open Archives Initiative)
www.openarchives.org
Virginia Tech Digital Library Research Laboratory (DLRL)
www.dlib.vt.edu
Spirit of NDLTD : Spirit of NDLTD 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 NDLTD!
Questions/Discussion? : Questions/Discussion?