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1 NDLTD Welcome and Introduction ETD 2014: 17 th Int’l Symposium on ETDs Leicester, England Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA USA

Outline Acknowledgments Information Life Cycle Perspective on People and Technology – Standards: ETD-ms – Technology: OAI NDLTD – Mission – Board – Goals – Spirit

Acknowledgments Family, mentors, teachers, students All those working with ETDs NDLTD, including its Members, Board, Committees, and Working Groups ETD 2014 Conference Team Sponsors Presenters, Attendees

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creation distribution seeking utilization searching, browsing, recommending storing, archiving, networking authoring, modifying, describing organizing, indexing preservability, similarity, timeliness, accuracy, completeness, conformance accessibility, preservability pertinence, significance, timeliness relevance Active Semi-active Inactive accessibility, accessing, filtering Gonçalves et al /j.ipm

6 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) –Adds details about level, etc. With specified relationship to MARC

7 OAI - Open Archives Initiative Interoperability Standard for transferring metadata among digital libraries –Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) NDLTD Union Catalog Local site –> national/regional site –> Union Catalog –> service providers (VTLS, …)

8 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

Board of Directors Allard, Suzie (USA) Cargnelutti, Tony (Australia) Chachra, Vinod (USA) Fox, Ed (USA) Gaur, Ramesh (India) Gould, Sara (UK)Greenberg, Charles (China) Hagen, John (USA) Huaroto, Libio (Peru) Kleyn, Leti (South Africa) Kuchma, Iryna (Netherlands) Lippincott, Joan (USA) MacDonald, James (UAE) McLean, Austin (USA) McMillan, Gail (USA) Pavani, Ana (Brazil) Read, Max (Canada) Sidorko, Peter (Hong Kong) Schirmbacher, Peter (Germany) Suleman, Hussein (South Africa) Van de Velde, Eric (USA)

Mission The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that, through leadership and innovation, promotes the adoption, creation, dissemination, use, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The NDLTD encourages and supports the efforts of institutions of higher education & their communities to advance and apply electronic publishing & digital libraries (including repositories), thus enabling them to share knowledge more effectively in order to unlock the potential benefits worldwide. 10

Goals (1) To be the leading international institution for promotion of ETDs worldwide. To expand Open Access to ETDs. To provide and encourage use of innovative services, resources, standards, and technology for the development of ETD programs. To sponsor and co-sponsor ETD-related events regionally and globally. 11

Goals (2): Through those activities Institutions of higher learning will develop their own ETD programs by adopting the submission, collection, and archiving of electronic theses and dissertations, to their own and to international digital libraries & repositories. Institutions of higher education and their communities will become aware of the benefits of ETDs, including: 12

Goals (3): benefits: –facilitation of the writing process for students –increased speed and effectiveness of sharing / distribution of research methods and results –through advances in electronic publishing and archiving, leading to –improved graduate education and scholarship –and –reduced costs of ETD printing, processing, dissemination, storage, and preservation. 13

How You Can Participate Primarily, a volunteer organization Local and regional activities NDLTD Committees, Working Groups – join a table at lunch on Thursday, e.g. : –Awards, Communications, –Conference, Membership, –Training Resources 14

15 Spirit of NDLTD Assuage fears -> build confidence -> promote sharing Help make a better (smaller) world Win-win-win (everyone can benefit) Have fun helping others Build on standards ETDs are preservable, popular, expressive -> “better” Doable, feasible, learnable, affordable, sharable Please join/support NDLTD!