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Supporting Free Culture with Digital Libraries: The NDLTD Example

This paper explores how universities can easily support free culture through digital libraries, using the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) as an example.

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Supporting Free Culture with Digital Libraries: The NDLTD Example

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  1. It is Easy for Universities to Support Free Culture with Digital Libraries: TheNDLTD Example Edward A. Fox (fox@vt.edu)Virginia Tech, USA FCDL 2005 – AtlantaFree Culture & the Digital Library October 14, 2005

  2. Outline • Acknowledgements • Message • 5S Framework • NDLTD as explained with 5S • Selected Links, Summary

  3. Acknowledgements: Support • Adobe • NDLTD • NSF (IIS-9986089, 0080748, 0086227, 0325579; ITR-0325579; DUE-0121679, 0136690, 0121741, 0333601) • OCLC • UNESCO • US Dept. Ed. (FIPSE) • VT • VTLS

  4. Message • If you are serious about Free Culture & DLs, being an active member of NDLTD is a “no brainer”, with clear benefits & real savings. • 5S is a clear and precise framework that allows us to describe & discuss DLs. • 5S description of NDLTD helps facilitate understanding of how beneficial and easy it is to further develop a free culture around ETDs.

  5. 5S Layers Societies Scenarios Spaces Structures Streams

  6. 5S Layers 5 Elements Societies Fire Scenarios Wood Spaces Earth Structures Metal Streams Water

  7. 5Ss

  8. Informal 5S & DL DefinitionsDLs are complex systems that • help satisfy info needs of users (societies) • provide info services (scenarios) • organize info in usable ways (structures) • present info in usable ways (spaces) • communicate info with users (streams)

  9. Hypotheses • A formal theory for DLs can be built based on 5S. • The formalization can serve as a basis for modeling and building high-quality DLs.

  10. 5S and DL formal definitions and compositions (April 2004 TOIS)

  11. Tools/Applications

  12. Fox & Gonçalves Textbook Parts • Ch. 1. Introduction (Motivation, Synopsis) • Part 1 – The “Ss” • Part 2 – Higher DL Constructs • Part 3 – Advanced Topics • Appendix

  13. Domain: graduate education, research Genre: ETDs= electronic theses & dissertations Training (UNESCO, multilingual):www.etdguide.org Project: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (NDLTD, 501 c 3) www.ndltd.org A Digital Library Case Study

  14. NDLTD Societies • Graduate students • General public (e.g., readers, citizens) • Board of Directors • Projects/Sponsors • Members • Researchers • Faculty, administrators, (digital) librarians, archivists, sponsors, publishers, …

  15. Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank) Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC) José Luis Borbinha (Natl Lib Portugal) Alex Byrne (ETD 2005, ADT: Australia) Tony Cargnelutti (ETD 2005, Australia) Vinod Chachra (VTLS) Susan Copeland (RGU, UK) Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U.) Scott Eldredge (Treasurer, ETD 2002, BYU) Edward A. Fox (Exec Director,Virginia Tech) John H. Hagen (West Virginia U.) Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC) Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada) Delphine Lewis (ProQuest) Joan K. Lippincott (CNI) Mike Looney (Adobe) Gail McMillan (Secretary, Virginia Tech) Joseph Moxley (ETD 2000, USF) Eva Müller (U. Uppsala, Sweden) Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil) Axel Plathe (UNESCO, Paris) Sharon Reeves (National Library Canada) Peter Schirmbacher (ETD 2003, Humboldt) Hussein Suleman (U.Cape Town, S. Africa) Shalini R. Urs (U. Mysore, India) Eric F. Van de Velde (ETD 2001, Caltech) Board of Directors

  16. Australia (ADT) Brazil (BDT, IBICT) Canada Catalunya Chile (Cybertesis) Germany India (Vidyanidhi) Korea OhioLINK: 79 colleges/univs Portugal (National Library) South Africa UK (British Library, JISC, Edinburgh, …) UNESCO (especially Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa) Venezuela Selected Projects / Sponsors

  17. NDLTD Scenarios • Research using ETDs • Authoring an ETD • Submitting an ETD, reviewing, revising, finalizing, approving • Cataloging an ETD, indexing • Institutional repostorizing • Searching, browsing • Selecting, downloading, citing

  18. NDLTD Scenarios • Career of a graduate student • University graduate program • ETD activities worldwide • Free culture worldwide • Developing and deploying open source software and systems • ETD-db • DSpace, …

  19. Student Gets Committee Signatures and Submits ETD Signed Grad School Approval form

  20. Library Catalogs ETD, Access is Opened to the New Research WWW NDLTD Digital library access control

  21. NDLTD Spaces • Online learning space, offline book space • Locations, people, institutions, cultures • OAI-PMH sets of data providers and harvesting site / service providers • Interfaces for access to ETDs • OCLC (OAI, Union Catalog, SRU) • VT and CALIS using Open Digital Libraries • VT research on implicit user models (w. Scirus) • Scirus • VTLS

  22. OCLC SRU Interface

  23. ETD Union Search Mirror Site in China (CALIS)(http://ndltd.calis.edu.cn – popular site!)

  24. NDLTD Structures • Committees • Conference organization • Social networks • ETD Metadata Standard • Union Catalog • XML /SGML / HTML document structure

  25. NDLTD Streams • Document content • Bit streams connecting computers • Not encrypted if free culture • Harvesting streams

  26. Why ETD? Short Answer • For Students: • Gain knowledge and skills for the Information Age • Richer communication (digital information, multimedia, …) • For Universities: • Easy way to enter the digital library field and benefit thereby • For the World: • Global digital library – large, useful, many services • General: • Save time and money • Increased visibility for all associated with research results

  27. Selected Links - http://fox.cs.vt.edu • ETD Guide (UNESCO funding, multiple languages) • www.etdguide.org • NDLTD (electronic theses and dissertations worldwide) • www.ndltd.org and etdguide.org • OAI (Open Archives Initiative) • www.openarchives.org • Virginia Tech Digital Library Research Laboratory (DLRL, www.dlib.vt.edu) • 5S, AmericanSouth.Org, CSTC, DL-in-a-box, ENVISION, ETANA, MARIAN, NDLTD, NSDL, OAD, ODL, …)

  28. Summary • If you are serious about Free Culture & DLs, being an active member of NDLTD is a “no brainer”, with clear benefits & real savings. • 5S is a clear and precise framework that allows us to describe & discuss DLs. • 5S description of NDLTD helps facilitate understanding of how beneficial and easy it is to further develop a free culture around ETDs.

  29. Questions?Discussion? Thank You!

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