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ADT Program Workshop Meeting (Sydney, Australia – September 26, 2005) “ADT and the Future of NDLTD” Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD fox@vt.edu Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA http://fox.cs.vt.edu Mobile: +1-540-230-6266. Outline. Acknowledgements Digital Libraries NDLTD

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  1. ADT Program Workshop Meeting(Sydney, Australia – September 26, 2005)“ADT and the Future of NDLTD”Edward A. FoxExecutive Director, NDLTDfox@vt.eduVirginia TechBlacksburg, VA 24061 USAhttp://fox.cs.vt.eduMobile: +1-540-230-6266

  2. Outline • Acknowledgements • Digital Libraries • NDLTD • Recent and Future Work • Conclusions

  3. Acknowledgements • All those working with ETDs • NDLTD, including Board, Committees, Members, and Associate Members • ETD 2005 Conference Team • ADT, including Committees and Members • Faculty, Staff, Students at Virginia Tech and at institutions collaborating with us • Sponsors, including SURA, FIPSE, NSF, IBM, Microsoft, VTLS, Adobe, …

  4. Digital Libraries (DLs) -- Objectives • World Lit.: 24hr / 7day / from desktop • Ubiquitous • Integrated “super” information systems • Usable, Useful • Higher Quality, Lower Cost • Education, Knowledge Sharing, Discovery • Disintermediation -> Collaboration • Universities Reclaim Property • Interactive Courseware, Student Works

  5. DL OverviewWhy of Global Interest? • National projects can preserve antiquities and heritage: cultural, historical, linguistic, scholarly • Knowledge and information are essential to economic and technological growth, education • DL - a domain for international collaboration • wherein all can contribute and benefit • which leverages investment in networking • which provides useful content on Internet & WWW • which will tie nations and peoples together more strongly and through deeper understanding

  6. SynchronousScholarly Communication Same time, Same or different place

  7. Asynchronous, Digital Library Mediated Scholarly Communication Different time and/or place

  8. Information Life Cycle Creation Active Authoring Modifying Social Context Using Creating Organizing Indexing Retention / Mining Accessing Filtering Storing Retrieving Semi- Active Utilization Distributing Networking Inactive Searching

  9. DL Challenges • Preservation - so people with trust DLs • Scalability, sustainability, interoperability • Well-trained, confident, digital librarians • DL community-oriented industry -- critical mass through covering libraries, archives, museums, corporate info, govt info, personal info -> “quality WWW” integrating IR, HT, MM, … • Quality: content, access, services, …

  10. Quality and the Information Life Cycle

  11. DL Curriculum Framework

  12. Outline • Acknowledgements • Digital Libraries • NDLTD • Recent and Future Work • Conclusions

  13. NDLTD Incorporation • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations incorporated May 20, 2003 in Virginia, USA • Charitable and educational purposes (501 c 3) • Officers • Executive Director (Ed Fox) • Secretary (Gail McMillan) • Treasurer (Scott Eldredge)

  14. 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

  15. Awards (John Hagen) Conferences (Tony Cargnelutti) Development (Peter Schirmbacher) Executive (Edward Fox) Finance (Scott Eldredge) Implementation (Ana Pavani) Membership (Shalini Urs) Nominating (Sharon Reeves) Standards (Thomas B. Hickey) Union Catalog (Vinod Chachra) NDLTD Committees (Chairs)

  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. Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China, Hong Kong Columbia Finland France Germany Greece India Italy Jamaica Korea Lithuania Malaysia Mexico Namibia Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Singapore S. Africa S. Korea Spain Sudan Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey UK USA Venezuela Yugoslavia Some Countries

  18. Some Institutional Members • British Library • Cinemedia • Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) • Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) • Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya • Diplomica.com • Dissertation.com • Dissertationen Online (Germany) • ETDweb, a Division of Answer4.com • Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) • National Documentation Centre (NDC), Greece • National Library of Portugal (for all universities) • OCLC Online Computer Library Center • OhioLINK • Organization of American States (SEDI/OAS) • Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) • UNESCO (www.unesco.org/webworld/etd)

  19. UNESCO and ETDs(by Axel Plathe at ETD2003) • Promoting the use of the Internet as a tool for disseminating scientific knowledge • Facilitating the transfer of ETD expertise from developed to developing countries • 1998: Member of the NDLTD Steering Committee • 1999: First UNESCO ETD meeting on ETD internationalisation • 2002: “UNESCO Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations” • 2003: Model training programmes and training courses • 2003: Sponsor pilot projects • 2003: Pilot projects (Africa, Europe, Latin-America)

  20. Union catalog: OCLC • OCLC will expand OAI data provider on TDs. • Is getting data from WorldCat (so, from many sites!). • Will harvest from all others who contact them. • Need DC and either ETD-MS or MARC. • Has a set for ETDs.

  21. OCLC SRU Interface

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

  23. VTLS Service’s Support ofContent Languages • The VTLS service for NDLTD supports different languages. These are: • English • German • Greek • Korean • Portuguese • Others – which are most needed ???

  24. ETDs: Library Goals • Improve library services • Better turn-around time • Always available • Reduce work • catalog from e-text • eliminate handling: mailing to ProQuest, bindery prep, check-out, check-in, reshelving, etc. • Save space

  25. 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

  26. What are we doing? • Aiding universities to enhance graduate education, publishing and IPR efforts • Helping improve the availability and content of theses and dissertations • Educating ALL future scholars so they can publish electronically and effectively use digital libraries (i.e., are Information Literate and can be more expressive)

  27. Outline • Acknowledgements • Digital Libraries • NDLTD • Recent and Future Work • Conclusions

  28. Recent and Future Work • OAI • Quality Analysis • Preservation (LOCKSS) • Automatic Classification to Identify Sub-collections and Categories • Logging Standards • Other Services and Enhancements

  29. 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)

  30. OA 1 OA 2 OA 4 OA 3 OA 5 OA 6 OA 7 OAI – Black Box Perspective

  31. Metadata harvesting The World According to OAI Service Providers Discovery Current Awareness Preservation Data Providers

  32. Metadata Specifications and Metadata Format: Conformance • Based on ETD-MS

  33. LOCKSS • Lots of copies keep stuff safe • Stanford (Vicky Reich) • Initial focus on lower levels • Initial content: journals • Emory (Martin Halbert) • Help deploy and adapt • Help apply in other contexts • Another registry • Set of publisher manifests (information providers) • Set of storage systems (archival storage) • NDIIP: AmericanSouth, MetaArchive

  34. NDLTD Sub-collections,PACS Automatic Classification

  35. XML-based DL Log Standard • Log analysis • is a source of information on: • How patrons really use DL services • How systems behave while supporting user information seeking activities • Used to: • Evaluate and enhance services • Guide allocation of resources • Common practice in the web setting • Supported by web servers, proxy caches • DL Logging can be more detailed

  36. The XML Log Format Log Transaction Timestamp Statement SessionId MachineInfo Event Timestamp Statement SessionInfo RegisterInfo Action StatusInfo Update StoreSysInfo Search Browse Collection Catalog SearchBy Timeout PresentationInfo QueryString

  37. Future Work – 1 of 3 • Collection • Cover all universities in Australia, the region, and the world • Expand from dissertations to theses to undergrad theses to reports to e-portfolios • Add in page images of back files or at least bib records (retrospective)

  38. Future Work – 2 of 3 • Promote use of ETDs • Collaborate with Scirus, Google Scholar, … • Support students so have DOIs, resolved references, XML works • Support cross language, multilingual, multimedia search/browse • Provide aids to classification into DDC or domain-specific classification

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