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Introduction to NDLTDand Brief History of the
ETD Movement ETD 2009: 12th Int. Symp. on ETDs
Pittsburgh, PA: Newcomers
Edward A. Fox, [email protected] Executive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.org
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USAhttp://fox.cs.vt.edu, Mobile: +1-540-553-1856
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Outline
• Acknowledgements
• Digital Libraries
• NDLTD
• Background for Future Work
• Summary
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Acknowledgements
• All those working with ETDs
• NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members
• ETD 2009 Conference Team
• Sponsors
• Presenters, Attendees
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Acknowledgements (2): Mtgs• 1987 mtg in Ann Arbor: UMI, VT, …• 1992 mtg in Washington: CNI, CGS, UMI, VT and 10 univ’s• 1993 mtg in Atlanta to start Monticello Electronic Library• 1994 mtg at VT: std: PDF + SGML + multimedia objects• 1996 mtg w. 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, FL (225)• 2001 – 4th symposium – Caltech (200)• 2002 – 5th symposium – BYU, Provo, Utah• 2003 – 6th symposium – Berlin (215) • 2004 – 7th symposium – U. Kentucky• 2005 – 8th symposium – Sydney, Australia• 2006 – 9th symposium – Quebec City, Canada• 2007 – 10th symposium – Uppsala, Sweden• 2008 – 11th symposium – Aberdeen, Scotland
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Outline
• Acknowledgements
• Digital Libraries
– www.dlib.org
– ACM/IEEE JCDL (Austin, next week)
• NDLTD
• Background for Future Work
• Summary
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Digital Libraries (DLs) -- Objectives
• World Lit.: 24hr / 7day / from desktop• Ubiquitous• Integrated “super” information systems• Usable, Useful• Higher Quality, Lower Cost • Education, Knowledge Sharing, Discovery• Disintermediation -> Collaboration • Universities Reclaim Property• Interactive Courseware, Student Works
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D ig ita l L ib ra r y C o n te n t
A rtic le s ,R e p o rts,
B o o ks
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S o ftw a re ,P ro g ra m s
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Outline
• Acknowledgements
• Digital Libraries
• NDLTD
• Background for Future Work
• Summary
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NDLTD: www.ndltd.org
• N D Ltd or Noodle TD
• Vision: Every thesis and dissertation in the world is:
– Devised to take advantage of the most helpful electronic publishing methods
– Shared globally and easily found
– Supported by a suite of digital library services to aid authors, researchers, learners, universities
– Preserved and migrated permanently
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• Aiding universities to enhance graduate education, publishing and Intellectual Property Rights 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?
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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 (now)– Executive Director (Ed Fox)– Secretary (Gail McMillan)– Treasurer (Austin McLean)
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Outline
• Acknowledgements
• Digital Libraries
• NDLTD
• Background for Future Work
• Summary
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Background for Future Work
• Electronic Publishing
• Computer Literacy/Fluency
• Scholarly Communication
• Open Access
• Institutional Repositories
• OAI
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OAI - Open Archives Initiative
• Advocacy for interoperability
• Standard for transferring metadata among digital libraries– Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH)
• Simplicity• Generality• Extensibility
• Support for PMH => Open Archive (OA)
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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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DiscoveryCurrent
AwarenessPreservation
Service Providers
Data Providers
Metadata
harvestin
g
The World According to OAI
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Summary
• Acknowledgements
• Digital Libraries
• NDLTD
• Background for Future Work
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Why ETD? Short Answer
• For Students:– Gain knowledge and skills for the Knowledge Society– Richer communication (digital information, multimedia, …)
• For Universities: – Easy way to enter the digital library field and benefit
thereby (“no brainer” entrée into institutional repositories)
• 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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Questions?Discussion?
Recommendations?
Thank You!
[email protected] http://fox.cs.vt.edu
Mobile: +1-540-553-1856