La Propuesta de Software de Código Abierto: Su Lugar en la

Educación Superior

Universidad de Buenos Aires May 19, 2004

Edward A. Fox

fox@vt.edu http://fox.cs.vt.edu

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, …

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, …

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

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

Part 3

Open Source

and

Higher Education

Conceptual Category Feature 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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

Pricing/Licensing/ Other

Company Profile

Number of installations

Costs/Licensing Model

Open Source

Other

   

Integration and Interoperability

Federation and Harvesting

Course Management Integration

ePortfolios Integration

API and Web Service support

   

Questions/Discussion?