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Virtual Day on Digital Theses5 October 2007 – Mexico
Networked Digital Library ofTheses and Dissertations(NDLTD) – www.ndltd.org
Edward A. Fox1, Executive DirectorGail McMillan, Secretary
Ryan Richardson, PostDocVenkat Srinivasan, Graduate Research Asst.
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/talks/2007/20071005MexicoNDLTD.ppt
Acknowledgements (selected)
• Colleagues: Tony Atkins, Lillian Cassel, Debra Dudley, John Eaton, Lourdes Fernandez, Marcos Gonçalves, Ming Luo, Silvia González Marín, Uma Murthy, Doug Oard, Alfredo Sanchez, Craig Scott, Hussein Suleman, Alberto Castro Thompson, …
• Sponsors: Dept. of Education (FIPSE), DFG, Elsevier, Google, IBM, IMLS, Microsoft, NSF (DUE-0121679, IIS-9986089, 0080748, 0086227, 0535057), OCLC, RDEC/ACE, SOLINET, SUN, SURA, VTLS, …
Digital Libraries & ETDs
• Domain: graduate education, research
• Genre:ETDs=electronic theses & dissertations
• Benefits: ETD creators develop lifelong skills with DLs. Students, faculty, departments, & universities save money and gain visibility.
Project: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (NDLTD) http://www.ndltd.org
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Importance of ETDs
• Open access is natural and highly effective.Levels playing field, making research from every nation and university equally visible.
• Promotes scholarship and understanding since research details are widely shared.
• Quantity of content is comparable to that of the journal publishing enterprise.
• Can leverage “electronic” for flexibility, expressivity, savings, and perservation.
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Main Points
1. NDLTD was launched in 1996 to help with ETD activities worldwide.
2. It is a member organization, so we urge joining by all interested in digital theses.
3. Visible results, e.g., ETDs from Mexico accessible from the NDLTD Union Catalog (and then through Scirus, …), show that working together helps everyone.
4. NDLTD helps with training/education, conferences, standards, technologies, research, and leadership.
• 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)
What are we doing?
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-2227102539751141/
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Digital Objects (DOs)
• Born digital– Word processors (e.g., Word)– XML, LaTex, BibTeX, and other processors– Multimedia authoring and capture tools
• Digitized version of “real” object– Scanners, cameras, MRI, …– 3D models, datasets, …
• Renderings for presentation, preservation– PDF/A– ORE (Object Reuse and Exchange)
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Metadata Objects (MDOs)
• Dublin Core, and extension to ETD-MS
• RDF
• OAI (Open Archives Initiative) sharing
• MARC
• Crosswalks, mappings
• Ontologies (to aid classification)
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LOCKSS
• Lots of copies keep stuff safe
• Initially at Stanford (Vicky Reich)
• Initial focus on lower levels
• Initial content: journals
• Extending to ETDs (Gail McMillan)
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OAI - Open Archives Initiative
• www.openarchives.org
• Advocacy for interoperability
• Standard for transferring metadata among digital libraries
– Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH)
• Standard for handling compound/complex objects like ETDs
– ORE
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OAI – Repository PerspectiveRequired: Protocol
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OAI – Black Box Perspective
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Software Options
• ETD-db (Virginia Tech; also in Spanish)
– Customized into ADT solution (Australia)
– http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/presentations/ETDdb4Uppsala2007.ppt -> future
• Many local / commercial solutions
• Digital libraries or institutional repositories
– Eprints, Greenstone, Fedora/Fez, …
– DSpace (MIT, HP Labs)
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Institutional Repositories - 1
• “Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single university or a multiple institution community of colleges and universities.”
• Crow, R. “Institutional repository checklist and resource guide”, SPARC, Washington, D.C., USA
• www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide_v1.pdf
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Institutional Repositories - 2
• “A university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.”
• Lynch, C.A. In ARL Bimonthly Report 226, pp. 1-7, Feb. 2003, www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html
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Software Issues
• Be sure:– Can export metadata using OAI-PMH– Is a sustainable solution– Allows open access and preservation
• Request support for– Flexible workflow management
• Scope: just ETDs <-> institutional memory• Scope: time coverage -- authoring,
reviewing, submission, defense presentation
Student Gets CommitteeSignatures and Submits ETD
Signed
Grad School/Library/IT
Library Catalogs ETD, Access isOpened to the New Research
WWW
NDLTD
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Union catalog: OCLC
• http://alcme.oclc.org/ndltd/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets (sets of ETDs)
• 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.
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OCLC SRU Interface
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ETD Union Search Mirror Site in China (CALIS)(http://ndltd.calis.edu.cn – popular site!)
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VTLS andContent Languages
The VTLS browse/search service has data in many different languages. These include: English German Greek Korean Portuguese
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Language = German; hits = 137
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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 ProQuest, bindery
prep, check-out, check-in, reshelving, etc.• Save space
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The Concept Map:From learning tool to cross-
language knowledge discovery tool
Problem:• Finding interesting ETDs written in Language1 may
be difficult for Language2 speakers, and vice versa.• NDLTD has > 360,000 ETDs in > 12 languages.• Many TDs from the Spanish speaking world are not
yet in NDLTD, e.g., UNAM in Mexico City has 50,000+ ETDs .
• ETDs exist in many languages, but discovery and summarizing across languages is even more difficult.
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Cross-language Experiment - 1
English version of ETD by Saraiya
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Cross-language Experiment - 2
Spanish (automatic) translation of ETD by
Saraiya
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Cmap Study SummaryUsing• NLP tools and a domain-specific ontologyWe have been able to automatically produce concept maps for large documents (ETDs).
For the cross-language case, using• Phrase translations mined from ETD collection• Off-the-shelf MT toolsWe have been able to automatically produce & translate concept maps that allowed users to determine relevance of ETDs better than using machine-translated abstracts alone.Google will support further R&D.
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Problems Solved/Solvable
• Plagiarism
• Concern over quality
• Concern about publishers
• Intellectual property rights management
• Handling restricted works
• Pilot -> Recommendation -> Requirement
• Inertia, lack of vision/leadership
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Appeal
• Join NDLTD
• Move forward (in stages) so all theses and dissertations in Mexico lead to open ETDs.
• Make all metadata accessible through the NDLTD Union Catalog.
• Let NDLTD know how we can help!
• PREGUNTAS?
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