Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations www'ndltd'org ECDL 2000 Panel 3 Digital Librar

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Networked Digital Library ofTheses and
Dissertations(www.ndltd.org)ECDL 2000 Panel
3Digital Libraries Programs and International
CooperationSeptember 20, 2000

• Edward A. Fox
• fox_at_vt.edu http//fox.cs.vt.edu
• CS DLRL Internet TIC
• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

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JCDL 2001

• First Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on
  Digital Libraries
• http//www.jcdl.org
• June 24-28, 2001 in Roanoke, VA
• Conference Committee
• General Chair Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
• Program Chair Christine Borgman, UCLA
• Treasurer Neil Rowe, Naval Postgraduate School
• Posters Chair Craig Nevill-Manning, Rutgers U.

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Steve Griffins 18 Sep 2000 Greetings

• Ed,
• Thanks. Yes, I'm sorry to be missing such a
  great meeting.
• While I don't have any slides, I think it's
  important for the group to hear that the IIS
  Division and DLI is putting a very high priority
  on establishing new international collaborative
  efforts and we hope to steadily increase our
  investment in this area in FY2001 and beyond. We
  look forward to continuing our joint sponsorship
  of activities with UK/JISC and the Germany/DFG.
  We are also looking forward to a coordinated call
  for proposals with EC (DG XIII/E-2 "Cultural
  Heritage Applications") in Jan 2001 per Bernard's
  message to Jose last week.
• Steve

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Locating Digital Libraries in Computing
and Communications Technology Space
Digital Libraries technology trajectory
intellectual access to globally distributed
information
Communications (bandwidth, connectivity)
Computing (flops)
Digital content
less
more
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Acknowledgements (Selected)

• Sponsors Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, NLM, NSF, OCLC,
  SOLINET, SURA, US Dept. of Ed. (FIPSE),
• VT Faculty/Staff Anthony Atkins, Thomas Dunbar,
  Debra Dudley, John Eaton, Gwen Ewing, Peter
  Haggerty, Gary Hooper, Gail McMillan, Len Peters,
  James Powell,
• VT Students Emilio Arce, Fernando Das Neves,
  Brian DeVane, Robert France, Marcos Goncalves,
  Scott Guyer, Robert Hall, Neill Kipp, Paul
  Mather, Tim McGonigle, Todd Miller, Constantinos
  Phanouriou, William Schweiker, Ohm Sornil,
  Hussein Suleman, Patrick Van Metre, Laura Weiss,
  

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A Digital Library Case Study

• Project
• Networked Digital Library of Theses
  Dissertations
• (NDLTD) http//www.ndltd.org

• Domain graduate education, research
• GenreETDselectronic theses dissertations
• Submission http//etd.vt.edu
• Collection http//www.theses.org

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The Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations
www.NDLTD.org
Training Authors Expanding Access Preserving
Knowledge Improving Graduate Education Enhancing
Scholarly Communication Empowering Students
Universities
Leader of the Worldwide ETD (Electronic Thesis
and Dissertation) Initiative
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ETD Initiative (and UMI)
Education
Access
Students Learn about DL, EPub
TDs become more expressive
Global TDs become more accessible, archived
Universities
N. Amer. (T)Ds are accessible, archived
UMI
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Stakeholder Perspectives

• Students learn, write/author
• Faculty advise, review
• Researchers use collection
• Universities serve students, manage collection,
  provide access, build DL infrastructure and
  SAVE money
• Nations make research visible
• International promote cooperation

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NDLTD
Grad Program
Ed. (Tech)
IT
Library
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Users and Roles
Roles
Digital Library
Author
Advisor
User
Thesis Secretary
Reader
Librarian
Cataloger
Researcher
Student
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Approaches to Open Archives
Build By Institution
Build By Discipline
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Approaches to Open Archives
Build By Institution
Build By Discipline
Access by
Author Category Interdisciplinary Year Language Qu
ery
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Eventually at www.theses.org
OAI Protocol
Sets by subject
Sets by origin
Optional MARC
MDO
MDO
MDO
MDO
NDLTD qualified DC
MDO
MDO
MDO
MDO
MDO
MDO
MDO
MDO
OAI DC
DO
DO
DO
DO
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Black Box OAI Perspective


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www.theses.org

• NOW James Powell student project, D-Lib Magazine
  description in Sept. 1998, with XML description
  of each site
• type of search engine / service
• language, coverage (for resource discovery)
• SOON
• 1) VTLS running union catalog
• 2) Gateway capability with VTs MARIAN thru
  protocols - Dienst, Harvest, OA, Z39.50 and to
  Emerge (NCSA), Greenstone (NZ), Phronesis

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Partial History

• 1987 mtg in Ann Arbor UMI, VT,
• 1992 mtg in Washington CNI, CGS, UMI, VT and 10
  universities with 3 reps each
• 1993 mtg in Atlanta for Southeast SURA, SOLINET
• 1994 mtg at VT std of PDF SGML multimedia
• 1996 funding by SURA, US Dept. of Education
• 1997 meetings in UK, Germany, ...
• 1998 1st symposium Memphis (20)
• 1999 2nd symposium Blacksburg (70)
• 1999 UNESCO workshop Paris (20)
• 2000 3rd symposium St. Petersburg (225)
• 2000 Standards workshop Berlin (30)
• 2001 4th symposium Caltech (???)

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What are the long term goals?

• Educating ALL future scholars epub expressively
  for, submit to, and effectively use digital
  libraries (i.e., become Information Literate)
• Millions of students / year exposed / involved
• gt 200K/yr rich hypermedia ETDs that may turn into
  electronic portfolios (images, video, data, )
• Dramatic increase in knowledge sharing
  literature reviews, bibliographies,
• Services providing lifelong access for students
  browse, search, prior searches, citation links
• Hundreds/thousands of downloads / year / work
• Thousands of universities with DL projects

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ETDs Library Goals

• Improve library services
• Better turn-around time
• Always available
• Reduce work
• catalog from e-text
• eliminate handling mailing to UMI, bindery prep,
  check-out, check-in, reshelving, etc.
• Save space and save money

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Convene Local Planning Group
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Build Local ETD Site
Digital Library
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Student Gets Committee Signatures and Submits ETD
Approval form
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Graduate School Approves ETD, Student is
Graduated
Quality control
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Library Catalogs ETD, Access is Opened to the New
Research
WWW
NDLTD
Digital library access control
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US University Members (44)

• Air University (Alabama)
• Baylor University
• Brigham Young University (part, whole)
• Caltech
• Clemson University
• College of William Mary
• Concordia University (Illinois)
• East Carolina University
• East Tenn. State U. require fall 2000
• Florida Institute of Technology
• Florida International University
• George Washington University
• Louisiana State University
• Marshall University (W. Va.)
• Miami University of Ohio
• Michigan Tech
• Mississippi State University
• MIT
• Naval Postgraduate School (CA)

• Penn. State University
• Rochester Institute of Tech.
• U. of Colorado Health Science Center
• U. of Florida
• U. of Georgia
• University of Hawaii, Manoa
• U. of Iowa
• U. of Kentucky
• U. of Maine
• U. of North Texas required since 8/99
• U. of Oklahoma
• U. of South Florida
• U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
• U. of Tennessee, Memphis
• U. of Texas at Austin required in 2001
• U. of Virginia
• U. Wisconsin - Madison
• Vanderbilt U.
• Virginia Commonwealth U.

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OhioLINK

• Statewide Consortium
• Represents 79 colleges, universities, libraries
• Public Universities
• Private Universities and Colleges
• 2-Year Colleges
• Only a few (e.g., Miami U. of Ohio) are also
  NDLTD members on their own

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Institutional Members (selected)

• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)
• Diplomica.com
• Dissertation.com
• 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
• Organization of American States (SEDI/OAS)
• Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET)
• UNESCO (www.unesco.org/webworld/etd)

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National / Regional Projects

• Australia (ADT)
• U. New South Wales (lead)
• U. of Melbourne
• U. of Queensland
• U. of Sydney
• Australian National U.
• Curtin U. of Technology
• Griffith U.
• Germany (Dissertationen Online)
• Humboldt University (lead)
• 3 other universities
• 5 learned societies Chemistry, Education, Math,
  Physics, Sociology
• 1 computing center
• 2 major libraries

• OhioLINK 79 colleges/univs
• Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de
  Catalunya, CBUC, as group, www.cbuc.es
• Universitat de Barcelona
• Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Universitat de Girona
• Universitat de Lleida
• Universitat Rovira i Virgili
• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• Biblioteca de Catalunya

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Other Countries with Members

• Belgium
• Brazil
• Canada
• China
• Hong Kong
• India
• Italy
• Mexico

• Netherland
• Norway
• Russia
• Singapore
• S. Africa
• S. Korea
• Spain
• Taiwan
• UK

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Other Countries with Members

• Belgium U. Catholique de Louvain
• Brazil U. de São Paulo
• Canada Regis U., U. Guelph, U. Laval, U.
  Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier U.
• China Shanghai Jiao Tong U.
• Hong Kong Chinese University of Hong Kong
• India Indian Inst. of Tech. Bombay, U. Mysore
• Italy U. Pisa
• Mexico UDLA (Puebla)

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Other Countries with Members

• Netherland U. Utrecht
• Norway U. Bergen
• Russia St. Petersburg State Technical U.
• Singapore Natl U. Singapore, Nanyang Tech. U.
• S. Africa Rhodes U.
• S. Korea Chungnam National U., Gyeongsang
  National U.
• Spain U. Alicante, U. Politecnica de Valencia
  ( 9 Catalunya institutions in CBUC )
• Taiwan National Sun Yat-Sen U.
• UK City University London

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NUDL Partners (selected)Networked University DL

• Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile,
  Chile
• José Luis Brinquete Borbinha, Biblioteca
  Nacional, Portugal
• José Hilario Canós Cerdá, U. Politécnica de
  Valencia, Spain
• Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of
  Crete, Greece
• Peter Diepold, Humboldt University, Germany
• Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University,
  Korea
• Ana Maria Beltran Pavani, Prédio Cardeal Leme,
  Brazil
• Lim Ee Peng, Nanyang Technological University,
  Singapore
• Alexander I. Plemnek, St.-Petersburg State
  Technical U., Russia
• J. Alfredo Sánchez, Universidad de las
  Américas-Puebla, Mexico

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International Perspectives

• ISTEC promote economic growth in Ibero-America
• OAS increase visibility of research in Americas
• Partially funding booklet on digital libraries
• Partially funding workshops e.g., Costa Rica,
  Dec. 1999
• UNESCO
• Increase access to knowledge
• Funding Guide in English, French, Spanish (
  Portuguese, Russian, )
• Funding workshops e.g., Columbia, Aug. 2000
• Providing travel funds for those in developing
  countries
• Support developing countries
• NSF DFG
• Collaborative research of Virginia Tech and
  University Oldenburg

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Interesting Research

• Scaling individual, university, region, world
• Federated search, harvesting, mirroring,
  discovery
• Retrieval w. multilingual large texts
  multimedia
• Bibliographies --gt citation databases
• Metadata, automatic classification, user training
• Usability supporting authors and users
• Preservation and archiving
• Policies, economic effects, social impacts