1. Open Source y Educación Superior Biblioteca Central Universidad Nacional del Sur Bahia Blanca, Argentina May 17-18, 2004 Edward A. Fox fox@vt.edu http://fox.cs.vt.edu

2. Acknowledgements (Selected) Sponsors: ACM, Adobe, AOL, IBM, Microsoft, NASA, NLM, NSF, OCLC, SUN, US Dept. of Ed. VT Faculty/Staff: Debra Dudley, Weiguo Fan, Gail McMillan, Manuel Perez, Naren Ramakrishnan, Layne Watson, … VT Students: Yuxin Chen, Shahrooz Feizabadi, Marcos Gonçalves, Nithiwat Kampanya, S.H. Kim, Bing Liu, Paul Mather, Fernando Das Neves, Unni. Ravindranathan, Ryan Richardson, Rao Shen, Ricardo Torres, Wensi Xi, Baoping Zhang, Qinwei Zhu, …

3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (NDLTD) NDLTD Board of Directors, previous Steering Committee + other NDLTD committees; those running Electronic Thesis & Dissertation (ETD) initiatives in universities, regions, countries Helpful sponsorship by many organizations, especially Adobe (new initiative!), CONACyT, DFG, FIPSE (US Dept. Education), IBM, Microsoft, NSF (IIS-9986089, 0086227, 0080748, 0325579; DUE-0121679, 0136690, 0121741, 0333601), OCLC, SOLINET, SUN, SURA, UNESCO, VTLS, many governments (Australia, Germany, India, …), … Colleagues at Virginia Tech (faculty, staff, students), and collaborators at many universities Slides included from: Vinod Chachra, Thom Hickey, Joan Lippincott, Gail McMillan, Axel Plathe, Hussein Suleman, …

4. Other Collaborators (Selected) Brazil: FUA, UFMG, UNICAMP Case Western Reserve University Emory, Notre Dame, Oregon State Germany: Univ. Oldenburg Mexico: UDLA (Puebla), Monterrey College of NJ, Hofstra, Penn State, Villanova University of Arizona University of Florida, Univ. of Illinois University of Virginia Endowment: VTLS

5. UNESCO Cláudio Menezes [cmenezes@unesco.org.uy] Purpose: Reinforce local solutions, commitments Emphasize: ETD does not need many resources. Open source and free software is available. International cooperation can help. Local training is crucial. => Inclusion of ETD in practices, processes => Schedule for ETD projects

6. Part 3 Open Source and Higher Education

19. Conceptual CategoryFeature Name Discovery Tools Searching Browsing Syndication & Notification Aggregation Tools Personal Collections Content Aggregator and Packaging Tool Community & Evaluation Evaluation System Context Usage Illustrators Wish Lists WCET LOR Study 2004

20. Meta-tagging Metadata Markup Tool Schema Support Indexing Workflow Support Import and Export Tools Unique Identifier Support Content Management Authoring and Publishing Workflow Support Version Control & Archiving Functions Authoring tools

21. Digital Rights Management & Fulfillment Digital Rights Management Payment and Fulfillment Presentation and Consortia Issues Accessibility Multiple output formats Customized Look and Feel Internationalization (I18n) Multiple Collections Media Transformation and Display

22. Technical Considerations Authentication Authorization & Personalization Usage reporting Unix/Linux/Apple Server Support Windows Server Support Application Server Requirements Database Requirements Scalability Tech Model Support Staffing Requirements Client Browser Requirements

23. Pricing/Licensing/ Other Company Profile Number of installations Costs/Licensing Model Open Source Other

24. Integration and Interoperability Federation and Harvesting Course Management Integration ePortfolios Integration API and Web Service support

47. Questions/Discussion?