1 1 st Canadian ETD & Open Repositories Workshop May 10-11, 2010 Carleton University, Ottawa “NDLTD: Past, Present, and Future” by Edward A. Fox

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1 1 st Canadian ETD & Open Repositories Workshop May 10-11, 2010 Carleton University, Ottawa “NDLTD: Past, Present, and Future” by Edward A. Fox Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA USA

Outline Acknowledgements NDLTD Union Catalog Recent and Future Work Summary

Acknowledgements All those working with ETDs NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members ETD & OR Workshop Team Sponsors Presenters, Attendees

Acknowledgements: Future Conferences 2010 – 13 th symposium –University of Texas at Austin, June 2011 – 14 th symposium –Cape Town, S. Africa, in Sept.-Oct. time frame 2012 – 15 th symposium –Bidding still open … ☺

Outline Acknowledgements NDLTD Union Catalog Recent and Future Work Summary

6 The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Leader of the Worldwide ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) Initiative Advocate: Training Authors Expanding Access Preserving Knowledge Improving Graduate Education Enhancing Scholarly Communication Empowering Students & Universities

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9 NDLTD Incorporation Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations incorporated May 20, 2003 in Virginia, USA Charitable and educational purposes (501 c 3)

10 Board of Directors Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Julia C. Blixrud (ARL) Tony Cargnelutti Vinod Chachra (VTLS) Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (Royal Library, Denmark) William Clark (Ohio State U.) Bruce Cochrane (Miami U. Ohio) Susan Copeland (RGU, UK) Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U.) Edward A. Fox (Executive Director, Virginia Tech) John H. Hagen (West Virginia U.) Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC) Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada) Joan K. Lippincott (CNI) Austin McLean (Treasurer, Proquest) Gail McMillan (Secretary, Virginia Tech) Eva M ü ller (EBSCO, Sweden) Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil) Max Read (U. British Columbia) Sharon Reeves (Library and Archives of Canada) Peter Schirmbacher (ETD 2003, Humboldt) Nancy Seamans, Georgia State U. Hussein Suleman (U.Cape Town, S. Africa) Shalini R. Urs (U. Mysore, India) Eric F. Van de Velde (ETD 2001) Xiaolin Zhang (National Science Library, China)

11 NDLTD Committees (Chairs) Awards (Christine Jewell, John Hagen) Communications (Suzie Allard) Conferences (Sharon Reeves) Development (Suzie Allard, John Hagen) Executive (Ed Fox) Finance (Austin McLean) Membership (Eric Van de Velde) Nominating (Joan Lippincott) Working Groups –International Activities, Strategic Planning, Website Revision, ETD Guide Revision

12 Member Support Advocacy for ETD activities Annual conference ETD-L – listserv for discussion Union catalog: improving local data Best X ETDs in Y lists Services for access Information for ETD projects –Standards, documentation, best practices Connect with: institutional repositories, …

13 Focused Needs/Opportunities DART-Europe Internationalization Marketing Member Benefits Mentoring Students Visibility Website, Guide (in Wikibooks)

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15 Members, Community Individuals Universities Consortia Investigate the Possibility Pilot Richer ETDs Backfile conversion Help other sites

16 For Students Learn about –Electronic publishing Concepts, computational thinking Tools and services –Intellectual property rights –Digital libraries More visibility –Discover (potential) collaborators –More citations

17 For Universities Improve graduate education Save time, space, and money Increase visibility of research –Through open access Expand capabilities with digital libraries –Including institutional repositories Collaborate in region, nation, and internationally through the ETD movement

Outline Acknowledgements NDLTD Union Catalog Recent and Future Work Summary

19 Union catalog OCLC runs OAI data provider on TDs, getting data from WorldCat (many sites!). Harvests from all others who contact them (see Thom Hickey, Need DC and either ETD-MS or MARC. Need a set for ETDs, or separate data provider. Supports services by VTLS, Scirus, …

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22 Union catalog statistics 5/2010 WorldCat has 13.4M records w. 502 MARC field indicating “thesis” 915K records are ETDs –502 and 856 MARC fields ETDs added to WorldCat over the last 21 months = 630K Uncertainty –ETDs in Union Catalog not in WorldCat –Union Catalog duplicates

Outline Acknowledgements NDLTD Union Catalog Recent and Future Work Summary

Recent and Future Work OAI Preservation (LOCKSS) Metadata: Update ETD-MS Seungwon Yang Venkat Srinivasan Sung Hee Park Other Future Services and Enhancements

25 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)

26 LOCKSS, MetaArchive Lots of copies keep stuff safe Stanford (Vicky Reich) Initial content: journals Set of publisher manifests (information providers) Set of storage systems (archival storage) 2005 proof of concept inside USA 2006 proof of concept for international members Who wants to join to extend (w. MetaArchive)? Preservation Initiative: Gail McMillan

27 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 Reworking and updating …

28 Seungwon Yang Gigapixel display –Many computers and monitors in display wall –5 high x 10 wide Showing many pages simultaneously Sections of display for different purposes Structure tree, sections as leaves Comparing 2 ETDs

29 Venkat Srinivasan DMOZ: OK if use highest levels LCSH: over 4000 entries OCLC data for training –MARC records: for ETDs, for comparable set of books Build classifiers Data to use –Title + Abstract vs. Adding Fulltext New categorization and derived services –One ETD, ranked list of categories –Categories for each chapter

30 Sung Hee Park ETD Table of Contents Identify Structure according to ToC Relate to Structure of Chapters, Sections, … Extract citations and references Related work by C. Lee Giles, etc. Extract tables Extract figures

Vision for a Research Project ETD repository Structured ETD repository chapterizing Citation Extraction ETD structuring Metadata Extraction zzzzzzz Finding the evidence between interdisciplinary Semantic search for large size document Categorization, searching, retrieval Semantic Educational repository Syllabus repository Structured Syllabus repository TOC extraction

Logical structure Logical location ToC entry Numbering scheme IndentationheadingSeparatorDelimiterLogical page

Physical Hierarchy

34 Future Work – 1 of 3 Build Collection –Add in page images of back files or at least bib records (retrospective) –Expand from dissertations to theses to undergrad theses (to reports to e-portfolios) –Cover all universities in every region, every country Build Community: local, national, regional

35 Future Work – 2 of 3 Promote richer use of ETDs –Collaborate with Google, Microsoft, … –Support students so have DOIs, resolved references, citing passages, separate CVs –Support cross language, multilingual, image & multimedia search/browse –Cross-lingual summarization and support for discovery –Browsing after classifying

36 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, mentoring, external committee members –Encourage submission of PPT, video of defense (or a rerun)

Other Conferences JCDL ICADL ECDL CIKM SIGIR Multimedia …

38 Spirit of NDLTD 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/support NDLTD!

Summary Acknowledgements NDLTD Union Catalog Recent and Future Work Questions and Comments?