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)
• 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, …
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
www.NDLTD.org
Training Authors
Expanding Access
Preserving Knowledge
Improving Graduate Education
Enhancing Scholarly Communication
Empowering Students & Universities
Leader of the Worldwide ETD
(Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) Initiative
www.ndltd.org
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)
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
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Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky)
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Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank)
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Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC)
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José Luis Borbinha (National Lib Portugal) •
Alex Byrne (ETD 2005, ADT: Australia)
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Tony Cargnelutti (ETD 2005, Australia)
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Vinod Chachra (VTLS)
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Susan Copeland (RGU, UK)
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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.)
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Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC)
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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)
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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
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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
• Categories
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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
Selected Projects / Sponsors
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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
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Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China, Hong Kong
Columbia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
India
Italy
Jamaica
Korea
Lithuania
Malaysia
Mexico
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Namibia
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Russia
Singapore
S. Africa
S. Korea
Spain
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
USA
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
Some Institutional Members
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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)
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)
Convene Local Planning Group
ETD
ETD project participants
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Academic administrators
Faculty
Students
Staff
Graduate school / provost / registrar
Information technologists
Librarians
Build Local ETD Site
ETD
Workshop/Training
Digital Library
Policies
Inspection/Approval
Student Prepares Thesis/Dissertation
NDLTD
Literature
Computer Resources
Research
Student Defends & Finalizes ETD
My Thesis
ETD
Student Gets Committee
Signatures and Submits ETD
Signed
Grad School
Graduate School Approves ETD,
Student is Graduated
Ph.D.
Library Catalogs ETD, Access is
Opened to the New Research
WWW
NDLTD
Access Possibilities
Web
search
engines
www.
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Virginia MIT National
Tech
Library of
Portugal
www.
library
openarchives. catalog
org
clients
CBUC
(Spain)
Ohio
Link
3rd
Party
Services
(e.g.,
UMI)
National
Projects:
AU, GE, …
ETD Union Collection (OAI)
VIRTUA
ODL (VT)
Future: recommender, …
Merged Metadata
Collection
LEGEND
OAI Data Provider
Virginia
Tech ETD
Archive
OCLC
ETD
Archive
Brazil
ETD
Archive
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OAI Service Provider
OAI Harvesting
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
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
NDLTD Union Catalog
Content Languages
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The VTLS NDLTD Union Catalog has data in 6 different
languages. These are:
 English
 German
 Greek
 Korean
 Portuguese
 Spanish
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Examples follow
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
MARC ($50)
Dublin Core (DC)
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thesis
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
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
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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?