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Closing Session

ETD 2008: 11th Int. Symp. on ETDsAberdeen, Scotland

Edward A. FoxExecutive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.org

fox@vt.eduVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA

http://fox.cs.vt.edu, Mobile: +1-540-230-6266

Outline

• Acknowledgements

• Straw Polls, Discussion

• Summary, Conclusions

• Exciting news: ETD Guide now in wikibooks

– http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ETD_Guide

Acknowledgements

• All those working with ETDs

• NDLTD, including Board, Committees, and Members

• ETD 2008 Conference Team

• Sponsors

• Presenters, Attendees

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Board of Directors• Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky)• Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank)• Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC)• Tony Cargnelutti• Vinod Chachra (VTLS)• William Clark (Ohio State U.)• Bruce Cochrane (Miami U. Ohio)• Susan Copeland (RGU, UK)• Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U.)• Edward A. Fox (Executive Director,

Virginia Tech)• John H. Hagen (West Virginia U.)• Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC)• Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada)• Joan K. Lippincott (CNI)• Austin McLean (Treasurer, Proquest)• Gail McMillan (Secretary, Virginia Tech)

• Eva Müller (U. Uppsala, Sweden)• Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil)• Max Read (U. British Columbia)• Sharon Reeves (Library and Archives of

Canada)• Peter Schirmbacher (ETD 2003,

Humboldt)• Samson Soong (Hong Kong U. Science &

Technology)• Hussein Suleman (U.Cape Town, S.

Africa)• Shalini R. Urs (U. Mysore, India)• Eric F. Van de Velde (ETD 2001, Caltech)• Ellen Wagner (Adobe)• Xiaolin Zhang (National Science Library,

China)

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NDLTD Committees (Chairs)• Awards (John Hagen -> Christine Jewell)• Conferences (Sharon Reeves)• Development (Suzie Allard, John Hagen)• Executive (Ed Fox)• Finance (Austin McLean)• Implementation (John Hagen)• Membership (Eric Van de Velde)• Nominating (Christine Jewell)• Public Relations (Suzie Allard)• Services & Standards (Ana Pavani, Thom

Hickey)

Outline

• Acknowledgements

• Straw Polls, Discussion

• Summary, Conclusions

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Straw Poll 1• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Which part of the world would you like to visit for ETD 2010?1. Latin America2. Caribbean3. North America4. Eastern Europe5. Africa6. India7. Asia - Pacific

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Straw Poll 2• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Where in the world should a smaller regional ETD conference be held?1. Latin America2. Caribbean3. North America4. Eastern Europe5. Africa6. India7. Asia - Pacific

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Straw Poll 3• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Which focus do you have in your ETD-related activities/interests?1. Graduate education2. Library / information science / practice3. University administration4. Policy and planning5. Electronic publishing6. Digital libraries7. Technology/science/development8. Other – please explain

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Straw Poll 4• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Which of the following systems is most interesting to you?1. Acrobat2. BEpress3. DSpace4. Eprints5. ETD-db6. Fedora7. Other – please explain

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Straw Poll 5• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Which of the following DL-related areas is of most interest?1. Overview – General information2. Digital objects3. Collection development4. Information / knowledge organization5. Architecture (of DL systems)

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Straw Poll 6• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Which of the following DL-related areas is of most interest?1. User behavior / interactions2. Services3. Preservation4. Management and evaluation5. DL education / research

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Straw Poll 7• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Which of the following DL-related sub-areas is of most interest?1. Conceptual frameworks, theories,

definitions about DL2. File formats, transformation, migration3. Digitization4. Document and e-publishing /

presentation, markup5. Metadata

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Straw Poll 8• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 1 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Which of the following DL-related sub-areas is of most interest?1. Subject description, vocabulary control,

thesauri, terminologies2. Identifiers, handles, DOI, PURL3. Online information seeking behaviors and

search strategies4. Web publishing: wiki, RSS, blogs5. ETD DL case studies6. Intellectual property / copyright

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Straw Poll 9• Please vote by raising your right hand for no

more than 2 of the following. Then please help discuss this to guide NDLTD.

• Which type of online community support would you use re ETDs?1. Facebook2. Listserv3. Myspace4. Second Life5. Other – please explain

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Straw Poll 10• Please propose some other straw poll, or

bring up another topic of interest, related to any or all of:

• ETD conferences and workshops• Online NDLTD community

– Second Life? …

• Support services• Technology / systems developments• Other …

Review, Wrapup• Acknowledgements

• Straw Polls, Discussion

• Summary, Conclusions–Activities, Challenges–Spirit of NDLTD

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Activities, Challenges

• Build Collection– Promote richer use of ETDs– Enhance services for students (incl. ugrad)– Integrate with: institutional repositories, e-

portfolios, e-publishing, e-science, …

• Build Community: local, national, regional

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Spirit of NDLTD• Help make a better (smaller) world• Win-win-win (everyone can benefit)• Have fun helping others• Helpers/teachers learn more than those they work with• Build on standards• ETDs are preservable, popular, expressive, “better”

• Doable, feasible, learnable, affordable, sharable

• Please join/support NDLTD!