Emphasize “scholarly” and “universities” to distinguish TDL from other efforts. A digital infrastructure for the scholarly activities of Texas universities

Challenges Increasing demands on research and education infrastructure Underutilized intellectual capital on campuses Global movement to transform scholarly communication THECB “Regional Plan for Higher Education” … 500,000 new students, 7500 new faculty by 2015 … scarce resources An enormous amount of intellectual capital exists that is not readily available to faculty, staff, and students throughout the State … value is actually zero Institutions of higher education are creating open access journals and federated institutional repositories to publish the intellectual products of their faculty

Addressing the Challenges A unified Texas Digital Library Collaboration among Texas ARLs Sharing of resources Hard work Patience

Partners Initially Later The 5 Texas ARL libraries: UT, A&M, TT, Rice, UH Later All of higher education in Texas

TDL Center of excellence for the creation, curation, and preservation of digital scholarly information for the State Repository for research output: electronic theses and dissertations faculty datasets, departmental databases, digital archives course management and learning materials digital media, special collections, etc. Platform for continued leadership in evolving scholarly communication systems

TDL Provides an innovative organizational model that effectively leverages advanced technology Produces institutional efficiencies in operations, equipment, and staffing Provides a testbed for research Advances our core research and teaching missions

Location Initially Later Central facility in Austin at UT Distributed centers at the 5 Texas ARLs Later Each university will likely have repositories of their own

Services Institutional repositories Learning object repositories Course management systems Scholarly publishing Collections management Preservation

Technologies Open source software Open archives initiative Internet2 and LEARN Web Standards

Status Lots of activity behind the scenes Target: February 1, 2006 Metadata standards for ETDs Funding and Organization Technical Briefing Dec. 13, 2005 in Austin Target: February 1, 2006 Website Open Journal System Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) Federated Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Organization Executive committee Technical committee Staff in Austin (small) Contributed resources from collaborating partners

Impacts Increases the institution’s visibility and impact Increases value of intellectual capital by increasing accessibility to products of scholarship and research Increases competitiveness for research funding Maximizes the research capabilities of faculties by increasing the pace of scholarly dissemination and discovery

Impacts Increases stature as a leader in developing new working models for publication and dissemination of scholarly, research, and educational information Advances core teaching and research missions by fostering innovation in education and research Preserves intellectual assets for future generations of researchers, teachers, students, and scholars

The Texas Digital Library will surely become one of the most important tools for research and education in Texas for the future.