Networked Digital Library ofTheses and Dissertations

(www.ndltd.org)

ECDL 2000 Panel 3“Digital Libraries Programs and

International Cooperation”

September 20, 2000Edward A. Fox

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

CS DLRL Internet TIC

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

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.

Steve Griffin’s 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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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, …

A Digital Library Case Study

Domain: graduate education, research

Genre:ETDs=electronic theses & dissertations

Submission: http://etd.vt.edu

Collection: http://www.theses.org

Project: Networked Digital

Library of Theses & Dissertations

(NDLTD) http://www.ndltd.org

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

www.NDLTD.org

Leader of the Worldwide ETD(Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) Initiative

Training AuthorsExpanding Access

Preserving KnowledgeImproving Graduate Education

Enhancing Scholarly CommunicationEmpowering Students & Universities

ETD Initiative (and UMI)

StudentsLearn aboutDL, EPub

TDsbecome more

expressive

N. Amer. (T)Ds areaccessible, archived

Global TDsbecome more

accessible,archived

UMI

Universities

Stakeholder Perspectives

Students – learn, write/authorFaculty – advise, reviewResearchers – use collectionUniversities – serve students, manage

collection, provide access, build DL infrastructure – and SAVE money

Nations – make research visibleInternational – promote cooperation

GradProgram Library IT Ed.

(Tech)

Users and Roles

Author

Reader

Digital

LibraryResearcher

ThesisSecretary

Advisor

StudentCataloger

Librarian

Approaches to Open Archives

Build ByDiscipline

Build By Institution

Approaches to Open Archives

Build ByDiscipline

Build By Institution

AuthorCategoryInterdisciplinaryYearLanguageQuery …

Eventually at www.theses.org

OAI Protocol

DODO DO DO

MDO

MDO MDOMDOMDO

MDOMDOMDO

Sets by subject Sets by origin

MDO MDOMDOMDO

Black Box OAI Perspective

ISTEC(Ibero

America)

PhysDis

NSYSU(Taiwan)

ADT(Australia)

BN.PT(Portugal)

www.theses.org

CyberTheses(Francophone)

VT

Dissert.Online(Germany)

MITOhioLINK

CBUC(Catalunya)

NDC(Greece)

NDC(Greece)

CIC U. Bergen(Norway)

…

…

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 VT’s MARIAN thru

protocols - Dienst, Harvest, OA, Z39.50 – and to Emerge (NCSA), Greenstone (NZ), Phronesis

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 (???)

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 > 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

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

Convene Local Planning Group

ETD

Build Local ETD Site

Digital Library

Policies

Inspection/Approval

Workshop/Training

ETD

ETD

Student Gets CommitteeSignatures and Submits ETD

Signed

Grad School

Graduate School Approves ETD, Student is Graduated

Ph.D.

Library Catalogs ETD, Access isOpened to the New Research

WWW

NDLTD

US University Members (44) 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. Virginia Tech - required since 1/97 West Virginia U. - required fall 1998 Western Michigan U. Worcester Polytechnic Inst.

Air University (Alabama)Baylor UniversityBrigham Young University (part, whole)CaltechClemson UniversityCollege of William & MaryConcordia University (Illinois)East Carolina UniversityEast Tenn. State U. – require fall 2000Florida Institute of TechnologyFlorida International UniversityGeorge Washington UniversityLouisiana State UniversityMarshall University (W. Va.)Miami University of OhioMichigan TechMississippi State UniversityMITNaval Postgraduate School (CA)New Mexico TechNorth Carolina State University

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

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)

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

Other Countries with Members Belgium Brazil Canada China Hong Kong India Italy Mexico

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

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)

Other Countries with Members Netherland: U. Utrecht Norway: U. Bergen Russia: St. Petersburg State Technical U. Singapore: Nat’l 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

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

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

Interesting Research

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