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ETDs Globally: Past, Present, Future, and the Expanding ETD Community

This article explores the history, current state, and future of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) globally, highlighting the importance of ETDs in scholarly communication and the benefits of a digital library-mediated approach. The author acknowledges the efforts of stakeholders in the ETD community and discusses the role of technology in supporting the information life cycle. The article also provides an overview of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and its services.

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ETDs Globally: Past, Present, Future, and the Expanding ETD Community

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  1. UNC-CH, SILS(Chapel Hill, NC, USA, February 17, 2006)“ETDs Globally:Past, Present, Future, and theExpanding ETD Community”Edward A. FoxExecutive Director, NDLTDProfessor, VT Dept. of Computer Sciencefox@vt.edu --- Virginia TechBlacksburg, VA 24061 USAhttp://fox.cs.vt.edu, Cell: +1-540-230-6266

  2. Acknowledgements • All those working with ETDs • NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members (and earlier steering committee) • ETD xxx Conference Teams, incl. 2006 • Faculty, Staff, Students at Virginia Tech and at institutions collaborating with us • Sponsors, including • Adobe, DFG, FIPSE, IBM, Microsoft, NSF, OSI, ProQuest, Scirus, SURA, UNESCO, VTLS, …

  3. Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of ETD 2005 terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Conclusion/Summary: Why ETDs?

  4. SynchronousScholarly Communication Same time, Same or different place

  5. Asynchronous, Digital Library Mediated Scholarly Communication Different time and/or place

  6. People:Why of Global Interest? • National projects can preserve antiquities and heritage: cultural, historical, linguistic, scholarly • Knowledge and information are essential to economic and technological growth, education • DL - a domain for international collaboration • wherein all can contribute and benefit • which leverages investment in networking • which provides useful content on Internet & WWW • which will tie nations and peoples together more strongly and through deeper understanding

  7. Technology: Information Life Cycle

  8. Technology: DL Curriculum Framework

  9. Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of ETD 2005 terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Conclusion/Summary: Why ETDs?

  10. Conference Summary Words - 1

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  12. Conference Summary Phrases - 1

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  14. Conference Summary Phrases - 3

  15. Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of ETD 2005 terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Conclusion/Summary: Why ETDs?

  16. 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)

  17. 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) Board of Directors (2006)

  18. Awards (John Hagen) Conferences (Sharon Reeves) Development (Peter Schirmbacher) Executive (Edward Fox) Finance (Scott Eldredge) Implementation (Ana Pavani) Membership (tbd) Nominating (Joan Lippincott) Standards (Thomas B. Hickey) Union Catalog (Vinod Chachra) NDLTD Committees (Chairs)

  19. 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) … Selected Projects / Sponsors

  20. 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 Countries

  21. 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)

  22. NDLTD Homepage www.ndltd.org

  23. 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.

  24. OCLC SRU Interface

  25. ETD Union Search Mirror Site in China (CALIS)(http://ndltd.calis.edu.cn – popular site!)

  26. 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:

  27. Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of conference terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Conclusion/Summary: Why ETDs?

  28. Future Work – 1 of 3 • Collection • Cover all universities around 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) • Support diversity of tools, including DSpace, ETD-db, Eprints, …

  29. 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.

  30. Metadata harvesting The World According to OAI Service Providers Discovery Current Awareness Preservation Data Providers

  31. OA 1 OA 2 OA 4 OA 3 OA 5 OA 6 OA 7 OAI – Black Box Perspective

  32. LOCKSS (& ETDs) • Lots of copies keep stuff safe • Stanford (Vicky Reich) • Initial focus on lower levels • Initial content: journals • Emory (Martin Halbert), NDIIP • Help deploy and adapt • Help apply in other contexts • Another registry • Set of publisher manifests (information providers) • Set of storage systems (archival storage) • USA Pilot -> International Pilot (VT Ind. Study)

  33. 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)

  34. Contents • Digital libraries • Summary of ETD 2005 terms, phrases • NDLTD, services • Future Work • Conclusion/Summary: Why ETDs?

  35. 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

  36. 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., …

  37. Ricardo, Arun • Global perspective – a sampler: • Ricardo da Silva Torres: Brazil, IBICT • Year during doctoral studies • Visiting from UNICAMP on “summer break” • Arun Chakraborty: India, Vidyanidhi • Visiting from Bose Institute during final phase of Fulbright Scholar work, after earlier stay at NLM • Institutional repositories: overview, contrast

  38. Questions?Discussion?Recommendations? Thank You!

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