ETDs for Life Panel ETD 2014: 17th Int’l Symposium on ETDs Leicester, England Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.org fox@vt.edu http://fox.cs.vt.edu/talks/2014 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
Many lives Graduate researchers – from early in the careers of the most innovative scholars Information life cycle NDLTD and the global ETD movement Computational thinking Digital libraries
OVERVIEW: general Opportunities Challenges Benefits Global Movement All TDs as ETDs Expressive ETDs Spreading awareness Overcoming inertia Providing aid Empowered students and universities Enhanced research collab. Computing Literacy -> compu-tational thinking: ePub, text, data, metadata, multi-media, linking Infrastructure Training Assistance Life skills for researchers Improved quality and effectiveness of systems/flows Digital Libraries ETD collection ETD DL services: local, global Limited DL knowledge Emerging DL systems and support Open access to research worldwide
Spirit of NDLTD Key: graduate researchers –> global future leaders Assuage fears -> empower, build confidence -> promote sharing Have fun helping others, make a smaller world Build on every advance in technologies, standards ETDs are expressive, high quality, preservable, (re)usable Win-win-win (everyone can benefit) Doable, feasible, learnable, affordable Please join/support NDLTD!
Information Life Cycle (adapted) Creation Active Authoring Modifying Classifying Tagging Recommending Indexing Social Context Using Citing Retention / Mining Downloading Storing Retrieving Discovering Semi- Active Utilization Filtering Distributing Networking Inactive Searching Borgman et al. 1996 http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/research/dig_libraries/
OVERVIEW: NDLTD Opportunities Challenges Benefits Global Movement NDLTD Membership Priorities ETD activities More ETDs More members Computing Apply advanced technologies Collaborate with partners People to experiment Value propositions Liaison efforts Improved support Improved services Improved ePub Increased collaboration Digital Libraries Union catalog Discovery services Usage/text analysis & reporting Quality control Use of standards Local support Interoperability NDLTD resources Better DL support for NDLTD members and the global research community
How You Can Participate Global: NDLTD Committees, Working Groups Please volunteer! Local: Improve infrastructure and services Trip report from ETD2014, local discussion Personal: communication and mentoring efforts Blogs, tweets, forum Activities: Training resources and other documentation Outreach to other individuals and institutions Research, development, application of systems / services