1. 1 NDLTD Welcome and Introduction ETD 2008: 11 th Int. Symp. on ETDs Aberdeen, Scotland Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.org fox@vt.edu Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA http://fox.cs.vt.edu, Mobile: +1-540-230-6266

2. Outline Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work Summary

3. Acknowledgements All those working with ETDs NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members ETD 2008 Conference Team Sponsors Presenters, Attendees

4. 4 Acknowledgements (2) Board of Directors, Retired Jose Borbinha –New Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL) Joe Moxley –Chair for ETD 2000

5. Acknowledgements (3): Future Conferences 2009 – 12 th symposium –Pittsburgh, PA, USA –10-13 June 2010 – 12 th symposium –Bidding still open … ☺

6. Outline Acknowledgements Digital Libraries –More details in my talk tomorrow NDLTD Recent and Future Work Summary

7. 7 Information Life Cycle Authoring Modifying Organizing Indexing Storing Retrieving Distributing Networking Retention / Mining Accessing Filtering Using Creating

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9. Outline Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work Summary

10. 10 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

11. 11 NDLTD Incorporation Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations incorporated May 20, 2003 in Virginia, USA Charitable and educational purposes (501 c 3)

12. 12 Board of Directors Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank) Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC) Tony Cargnelutti Vinod Chachra (VTLS) 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 (U. Uppsala, Sweden) Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil) Max Read (U. British Columbia) 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)

13. 13 NDLTD Committees (Chairs) Awards (John Hagen -> Christine Jewell) Conferences (Sharon Reeves) Development (Suzie Allard, John Hagen) Executive (Ed Fox) Finance (Austin McLean) Implementation (John Hagen) Membership (Eric Van de Velde) Nominating (Christine Jewell) Public Relations (Suzie Allard) Services & Standards (Ana Pavani, Thom Hickey)

14. 14 NDLTD Committee Example Services & Standards –Metadata Standards ETD-MS (update coming soon) –Statistical Reporting Standards (and logging) –Partner Services –Union Catalog –New initiatives … –Please meet with Ana Pavani and Thom Hickey!

15. 15 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!

16. 16 Member Support Advocacy for ETD activities Annual conference ETD-L – listserv for discussion Union catalog Services for access Information for ETD projects –Standards, documentation (Guide -> wiki) …

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19. 19 Institutional Repositories, etc. IRs often used at member sites We also run Eprints for individual ETDs NDLTD Web site shifting to editable content management system –Key ETD-related information is available –Including from all conferences –Supported by Cape Town and Virginia Tech

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21. 21 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, hickey@oclc.org). Need DC and either ETD-MS or MARC. Need a set for ETDs, or separate data provider.

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28. Outline Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work Summary

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

30. 30 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)

31. 31 LOCKSS, MetaArchive 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 (w. MetaArchive)?

32. 32 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 …

33. 33 Future Work – 1 of 4 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

34. 34 Future Work – 2 of 4 Promote richer 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

35. 35 Future Work – 3 of 4 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)

36. 36 Future Work – 4 of 4 Analyze/classify ETDs to support browsing: Build on category systems & ontologies –Dewey Decimal Classification, LCSH, –ProQuest and publisher categories, … Developing classifiers –Training sets, machine classification –Develop a service, share the software Call for partners (Google) and pilot testers

37. Summary Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD Recent and Future Work

38. 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!