1. ETD’2001, March 22, 2001, Caltech, Pasadena, CA Panel 1: Developing the UNESCO International Guide for ETDs: A Multilingual Training Resource of Best Practices “Parts 1 and 6” Statement by Edward A. Fox Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA

3. The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations www.NDLTD.org 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

4. A Digital Library Case Study F Domain: graduate education, research F Genre: ETDs = electronic theses & dissertations F Submission: http://etd.vt.edu F Collection: http://www.theses.org Project: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations http://www.ndltd.org (NDLTD – remember: ND LTD / NDL TD)

5. Grad Program Library IT Ed. (Tech)

6. What are the long term goals? F Attract all TDs/yr: 50K D-US, 25K D-Germany, 10K TD-Canada, … F >200K/yr rich hypermedia ETDs that may turn into electronic portfolios (images, video, audio, …) F Dramatic increase in knowledge sharing: literature reviews, bibliographies, … F Services providing lifelong access for students: browse, search, prior searches, citation links F Hundreds/thousands of downloads / year / work

7. ETD2001 - Caltech F March 22, 2001 F Opening Plenary Panel F Overview of ETD Guide F Fox comments on sections 1 and 6

8. What led to today’s meeting? F 1987 mtg in Ann Arbor: UMI, VT, … F 1992 mtg in Washington: CNI, CGS, UMI, VT and 10 universities with 3 reps each F 1993 mtg in Atlanta to start Monticello Electronic Library (MEL): SURA, SOLINET F 1994 mtg in Blacksburg re ETD project: std of PDF + SGML + multimedia objects F 1996 funding by SURA, US Dept. of Education (FIPSE) for regional, national projects F 1997 meetings in UK, Germany,... F 1998 – 1 st symposium – Memphis (20) F 1999 – 2 nd symposium – Blacksburg (70) F 2000 – 3 rd symposium – St. Petersburg (225) -> Caltech

9. Responsibilities F Handle local education and collection –Contact information for helpers –Archive (as an Open Archive Initiative site) F Utilize standards –Metadata: MARC / DC-based consensus specification F Share metadata –Union services, mirrored services worldwide F Allow access –www.theses.org / www.dissertations.org –Open Archives Initiative (www.openarchives.org)

10. Access Possibilities Web search engines library catalog clients www. theses. org www. openarchives. org 3 rd Party Services (e.g., UMI) Virginia Tech National Library of Portugal CBUC (Spain) Ohio Link MITNational Projects: AU, GE, …

11. OhioLINK F Statewide Consortium F Represents 79 colleges, universities, libraries F Public Universities F Private Universities and Colleges F 2-Year Colleges F Only a few (e.g., Miami U. of Ohio) are also NDLTD members on their own

12. National / Regional Projects F Australia –U. New South Wales (lead) –U. of Melbourne –U. of Queensland –U. of Sydney –Australian National U. –Curtin U. of Technology –Griffith U. F Germany –Humboldt University (lead) –3 other universities –5 learned societies: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Sociology, Education –1 computing center –2 major libraries F Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya, as group, www.cbuc.es: –Universitat de Barcelona –Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona –Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya –Universitat Pompeu Fabra –Universitat de Girona –Universitat de Lleida –Universitat Rovira i Virgili –Universitat Oberta de Catalunya –Biblioteca de Catalunya F South Africa: ECHEA/SEALS F India, Portugal, …

13. Other Countries with Members F Belgium F Brazil F Canada F Columbia F Germany F Hong Kong F India F Italy F Korea F Mexico F Netherland F Norway F Russia F Singapore F S. Africa F S. Korea F Spain F Sweden F Taiwan F UK

14. DL Components User Interfaces Workflow Mgr DBMS Search Engines, Classifiers, … Data, MM Info Gateways Repository Rights Mgr MM/ HT Renderer

15. Open Archives Initiative OAI www.openarchives.org openarchives@openarchives.org

16. OAi Philosophy F Self-archiving = submission mechanism F Long-term storage system = archive F Open interface = harvesting mechanism F Data provider + service provider F Start with “gray literature” –e-prints/pre-prints, reports, dissertations, …

17. Archive of Digital Objects Archive Access Protocol Handle (ID) Digital object terms and conditions

18. OAI – Repository Perspective Required: Protocol DO MDO

19. Approaches to Open Archives Build By Discipline Build By Institution

20. Approaches to Open Archives Build By Discipline Build By Institution Author Category Interdisciplinary Year Language Query …

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

22. Black Box OAI-ETD Perspective ISTEC (Ibero America) PhysDisNSYSU (Taiwan) ADT (Australia) BN.PT (Portugal) www.theses.orgCyberTheses (Francophone) VTDissert.Online (Germany) MITOhioLINKCBUC (Catalunya) NDC (Greece) SEALS (S.Africa) CICU. Bergen (Norway) … …

23. OAI – Black Box Perspective OA 1OA 2OA 4OA 3OA 5OA 6OA 7 BrowseSummarizeSearchVisualize DO Services: Docs: Metadata: