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Many lives

ETDs for Life Panel ETD 2014: 17 th Int’l Symposium on ETDs Leicester, England Edward A. Fox Executive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.org fox@vt.edu http:// fox.cs.vt.edu /talks/ 2014 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA. Many lives.

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Many lives

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  1. ETDs for Life PanelETD 2014: 17th Int’l Symposium on ETDsLeicester, EnglandEdward A. FoxExecutive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.orgfox@vt.edu http://fox.cs.vt.edu/talks/2014 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA

  2. Many lives • Graduate researchers – from early in the careers of the most innovative scholars • Information life cycle • NDLTD and the global ETD movement • Computational thinking • Digital libraries

  3. Spirit of NDLTD • Key: graduate researchers –> global future leaders • Assuage fears -> empower, build confidence -> promote sharing • Have fun helping others, make a smaller world • Build on every advance in technologies, standards • ETDsareexpressive, high quality, preservable, (re)usable • Win-win-win (everyone can benefit) • Doable, feasible, learnable, affordable • Please join/support NDLTD!

  4. Information Life Cycle (adapted) Creation Active Authoring Modifying Classifying Tagging Recommending Indexing Social Context Using Citing Retention / Mining Downloading Storing Retrieving Semi- Active Discovering Utilization Filtering Distributing Networking Inactive Searching Borgman et al. 1996 http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/research/dig_libraries/

  5. How You Can Participate • Global: NDLTD Committees, Working Groups • Please volunteer! • Local: Improve infrastructure and services • Trip report from ETD2014, local discussion • Personal: communication and mentoring efforts • Blogs, tweets, forum • Activities: • Training resources and other documentation • Outreach to other individuals and institutions • Research, development, application of systems / services

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