1 NDLTD: Past, Present, and Future ETD 2007: 10 th Int. Symp. on ETDs Uppsala, Sweden Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA USA Mobile:

Outline Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work Summary

Acknowledgements All those working with ETDs NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members ETD 2007 Conference Team Sponsors Presenters, Attendees

4 Acknowledgements (2) Board of Directors, Retired Scott Eldredge Brigham Young University Provo, Utah, USA (first treasurer)

Acknowledgements (3): Mtgs 1987 mtg in Ann Arbor: UMI, VT, … 1992 mtg in Washington: CNI, CGS, UMI, VT and 10 univ’s 1993 mtg in Atlanta to start Monticello Electronic Library (regional, US Southeast): SURA, SOLINET 1994 mtg at VT: std: PDF + SGML + multimedia objects 1996 mtg w. funding by SURA, US Dept. of Education(FIPSE) 1997 meetings in UK, Germany, – 1 st symposium – Memphis (20) 1999 – 2 nd symposium – Blacksburg (70) 2000 – 3 rd symposium – St. Petersburg (225) 2001 – 4 th symposium – Caltech (200) 2002 – 5 th symposium – BYU, Provo, Utah 2003 – 6 th symposium – Berlin (215) 2004 – 7 th symposium – U. Kentucky 2005 – 8 th symposium – Sydney, Australia 2006 – 9 th symposium – Quebec City, Canada

Acknowledgements (4): Future Conferences 2008 – 11 th symposium –Aberdeen, Scotland –4-7 June 2009 – 12 th symposium –Pittsburgh –10-13 June (tentative)

Outline Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work Summary

Digital Libraries (DLs) -- Objectives World Lit.: 24hr / 7day / from desktop Ubiquitous Integrated “super” information systems Usable, Useful Higher Quality, Lower Cost Education, Knowledge Sharing, Discovery Disintermediation -> Collaboration Universities Reclaim Property Interactive Courseware, Student Works

9

10 Information Life Cycle Authoring Modifying Organizing Indexing Storing Retrieving Distributing Networking Retention / Mining Accessing Filtering Using Creating

11

Outline Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work Summary

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

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?

15 NDLTD Incorporation Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations incorporated May 20, 2003 in Virginia, USA Charitable and educational purposes (501 c 3) Officers (now) –Executive Director (Ed Fox) –Secretary (Gail McMillan) –Treasurer (Austin McLean)

16 Board of Directors Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank) Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC) José Luis Borbinha (Natl Lib Portugal) Tony Cargnelutti Vinod Chachra (VTLS) William Clark (Ohio State U.) 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) Joseph Moxley (ETD 2000, USF) Eva M ü ller (U. Uppsala, Sweden) Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil) Janice Rickards (chair of ADT) Sharon Reeves (Library and Archives of Canada) Peter Schirmbacher (ETD 2003, Humboldt) Samson Soong (Hong Kong U. Science & Technology) Hussein Suleman (U.Cape Town, S. Africa) Shalini R. Urs (U. Mysore, India) Eric F. Van de Velde (ETD 2001, Caltech) Ellen Wagner (Adobe) Xiaolin Zhang (National Science Library, China)

17 NDLTD Committees (Chairs) Awards (John Hagen) Conferences (Sharon Reeves) Development (Suzie Allard, John Hagen) Executive (Ed Fox) Finance (Austin McLean) Implementation (John Hagen) Membership (Eric Van de Velde) Nominating (Joan Lippincott ) Public Relations (Suzie Allard) Services & Standards (Ana Pavani, Thom Hickey)

18 NDLTD New Committee Services & Standards –Blogs, Wikis –Metadata Standards –Partner Services –Statistical Reporting Standards (and logging) –Union Catalog –New initiatives … –Please meet with Ana Pavani and Thom Hickey!

19 NDLTD Committee Activities Implementation –How to apply standards? –How to coordinate a national/regional program? –How to launch a pilot project? –How to train students regarding copyright, digital libraries, electronic publishing, preservation, …? Membership, Public Relations –How to clarify and publicize member services? –How to double membership in 2 years? Please update your Member Info!

20 Member Support Annual conference ETD-L – listserv for discussion Union catalog Services for access Information for ETD projects –Standards, documentation Advocacy for ETD activities …

21

22

23 Institutional Repositories For individual ETDs For publications from conferences, and other documents related to NDLTD Accessible from NDLTD site, and supported by NDLTD (run by VT)

24

25 Union catalog: OCLC OCLC runs OAI data provider on TDs. Is getting data from WorldCat (so, from 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.

26

27

28

29

30

31

32 ETD Union Search Mirror Site in China (CALIS) ( – popular site!)

33 OCLC SRU Interface

Outline Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work Summary

Recent and Future Work OAI Preservation (LOCKSS) Metadata: Update ETD-MS Other Future Services and Enhancements

36 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)

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

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

39 LOCKSS Lots of copies keep stuff safe Stanford (Vicky Reich) Initial content: journals Another registry for ETDs 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?

40 VT Offer for Classification List of category systems –Dewey Decimal Classification –ProQuest categories –From Germany, Sweden Developing classifiers –Training sets, machine classifications –Service, code Call for partners and pilot testers

41 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 …

42 Future Work – 1 of 3 Collection –Cover all universities in every region, every country –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)

43 Future Work – 2 of 3 Promote use of ETDs –Collaborate with Google, Microsoft, … –Support students so have DOIs, resolved references, XML works –Support cross language, multilingual, multimedia search/browse –Cross-lingual summarization and support for discovery – can we scale up dissertation project? Room IX, Session 8, Friday, 13:30: Richardson & Fox

44 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)

Summary Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work

46 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

47 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!

48 Questions? Discussion? Recommendations? Thank You!