1 CNI Spring Meeting Washington, D.C. 5 April 2005 The Global
Reach of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Edward A. Fox,
[email protected] Digital Library Research Laboratory, Dept. of CS
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/talks/2005/ http://fox.cs.vt.edu Slide 2
Acknowledgements: Support Selected Sponsors: Adobe, AOL, CAPES,
CNI, CONACyT, DFG, IBM, Microsoft, NDLTD, NSF (IIS-9986089,
0086227, 0080748, 0325579; ITR- 0325579; DUE-0121679, 0136690,
0121741, 0333601), OCLC, SOLINET, SUN, SURA, UNESCO, US Dept. Ed.
(FIPSE), VTLS Slide 3 3 Outline Introduction, Context Electronic
Theses and Dissertations ETD Support and Services NDLTD
Institutional Repositories Research Slide 4 4 Information Life
Cycle Authoring Modifying Organizing Indexing Storing Retrieving
Distributing Networking Retention / Mining Accessing Filtering
Using Creating Slide 5 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? Slide 6 6 Library Goals Improve
library services Better turn-around time Always available Reduce
work catalog from e-text eliminate handling: mailing to ProQuest,
bindery prep, check- out, check-in, reshelving, etc. Save space
Slide 7 7 Slide 8 8 Slide 9 9 Slide 10 10 Slide 11 A Digital
Library Case Study Domain: graduate education, research
Genre:ETDs=electronic theses & dissertations Submission:
http://etd.vt.edu Collection: http://www.theses.org Project:
Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (NDLTD)
http://www.ndltd.org Slide 12 NDLTD: How can a university get
involved? Select planning/implementation team Graduate School
Library Computing / Information Technology Institutional Research /
Educ. Tech. Join online, give us contact names www.ndltd.org/join
Adapt Virginia Tech or other proven approach Build interest and
consensus Start trial / allow optional submission Slide 13 13 Slide
14 Student Gets Committee Signatures and Submits ETD Signed Grad
School Slide 15 Library Catalogs ETD, Access is Opened to the New
Research WWW NDLTD Slide 16 16
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-2227102539751141/
Slide 17 17 Slide 18 18 ETD Union Collection (OAI) Slide 19 19
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. Has a set for ETDs. Slide 20 20 Slide 21 21 OCLC SRU
Interface Slide 22 22 1010100101 0100101010 1001010101 0101010101
Program 1010100101 0100101010 1001010101 0101010101 Document
1010100101 0100101010 1001010101 0101010101 Document 1010100101
0100101010 1001010101 0101010101 ETD-1 1010100101 0100101010
1001010101 0101010101 Program 1010100101 0100101010 1001010101
0101010101 ETD-2 1010100101 0100101010 1001010101 0101010101 Image
1010100101 0100101010 1001010101 0101010101 Image 1010100101
0100101010 1001010101 0101010101 ETD-3 1010100101 0100101010
1001010101 0101010101 Video 1010100101 0100101010 1001010101
0101010101 Video 1010100101 0100101010 1001010101 0101010101 ETD-4
ETD DL for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations (www.ndltd.org) Search Filter Union Recent Browse PMH
ODLRecent ODLBrowse ODLUnion ODLSearch ODLUnion PMH USER INTERFACE
Students and researchers ETD collections Example Open Digital
Library Slide 23 23 Slide 24 24 ETD Union Search Mirror Site in
China (CALIS) (http://ndltd.calis.edu.cn popular site!) Slide 25 25
Slide 26 26 VTLS 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 Slide 27 27
Language = German; hits = 137 Slide 28 28 Full record display Slide
29 29 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) Slide
30 30 Slide 31 31 Slide 32 32 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) Slide 33 33 Board of Directors Suzie
Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank)
Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC) Jos Luis Borbinha (Natl 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. 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) Delphine Lewis (ProQuest) Joan K. Lippincott
(CNI) Mike Looney (Adobe) Gail McMillan (Secretary, Virginia Tech)
Joseph Moxley (ETD 2000, USF) Eva M ller (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) Slide 34 34 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) Slide 35 35
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 Slide 36 36 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 Slide 37 Some
Institutional Members British Library Cinemedia Coalition for
Networked Information (CNI) Committee on Institutional Cooperation
(CIC) Consorci de Biblioteques Universitries 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) Slide 38 38
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 Slide
39 39 Slide 40 40 Institutional Repositories - 1 Institutional
repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the
intellectual output of a single university or a multiple
institution community of colleges and universities. Crow, R.
Institutional repository checklist and resource guide, SPARC,
Washington, D.C., USA www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide_v1.pdf Slide 41
41 Institutional Repositories - 2 A university-based institutional
repository is a set of services that a university offers to the
members of its community for the management and dissemination of
digital materials created by the institution and its community
members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the
stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term
preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access
or distribution. Lynch, C.A. In ARL Bimonthly Report 226, pp. 1-7,
Feb. 2003, www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html Slide 42 42 What is a
Digital Object Repository? Also called: digital rep., digital asset
rep., institutional repository Stores and maintains digital objects
(assets) Provides external interface for Digital Objects Creation,
Modification, Access Enforces access policies Provides for content
type disseminations Adapted from Slide by V. Chachra, VTLS Slide 43
43 Goals of Institutional Repositories (by Steven Harnad, U.
Southampton) Self Archiving of Institutional Research Thesis and
Dissertations (VTLS NDLTD Project) Article preprints and post
prints Internal documents and maps Management of digital
collections Preservation of materials decentralized approach
Housing of teaching materials Electronic Publishing of journals,
books, posters, maps, audio, video and other multimedia objects
Adapted from Slide by V. Chachra, VTLS Slide 44 44 Slide 45 45
Slide 46 46 Slide 47 47 Research: Connect w. LOCKSS Lots of copies
keep stuff safe Stanford (Vicky Reich) Initial focus on lower
levels Initial content: journals Emory (Martin Halbert) Help deploy
and adapt Help apply in other contexts Another registry Set of
publisher manifests (information providers) Set of storage systems
(archival storage) Helping us explore connection with ETDs Slide 48
48 Other Research: Cluster NDLTD-Computing Slide 49 49 Summary
Introduction, Context Electronic Theses and Dissertations ETD
Support and Services NDLTD Institutional Repositories Research
