Electronic Theses and Dissertations examines how electronic publication of theses and dissertations might enhance graduate education. This text clarifies the composition, evaluation, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), and provides a conceptual framework for the development of effective ETD programs. It identifies the main technical concerns related to the adoption of ETD initiatives and contains answers and methods that have proven effective in the longest-running library-group support effort for campus ETDs, making it the foremost guide to the latest innovations, practices, and policies in ETD production, distribution, and institutionalization.
Author(s): Edward Fox, Shahrooz Feizabadi, Joseph M. Moxley, Christian R. Weisser
Edition: 1
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 352
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Contents......Page 14
Contributors......Page 17
BookmarkTitle:......Page 19
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
CHANGES IN PRESENTATION......Page 21
ACCESS AND ATTITUDES......Page 22
PUBLICATION AND PLAGIARISM......Page 23
HOW VIRGINIA TECH IMPLEMENTED THE ETD REQUIREMENT......Page 24
CONCLUSION......Page 25
INTRODUCTION......Page 28
Evaluating Print Texts Published in Electronic Form......Page 29
Evaluating Innovative Hypermedia ETDs......Page 31
REASONS FOR THE GOOD NEWS......Page 33
REFERENCES......Page 35
BREVIS VITA, ARS LONGA......Page 38
WHAT ARE MULTIGRAPHIC THESES AND DISSERTATIONS?......Page 40
A DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC THESES AND DISSERTATIONS IN THE HUMANITIES......Page 42
ETDs AND PREPROFESSIONALISM......Page 48
NOTES......Page 49
INTRODUCTION......Page 52
Students......Page 53
HOW YOU CAN HELP......Page 55
Building Local Consensus......Page 56
Supporting Infrastructure......Page 57
CNI and Project Discovery......Page 58
PILOT EFFORTS AT VIRGINIA TECH......Page 59
DTD Development......Page 60
Workshops......Page 61
Envision......Page 62
Infrastructure......Page 63
Region......Page 64
Education and Evaluation......Page 65
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 66
INTRODUCTION......Page 68
Membership......Page 69
Collection Size......Page 70
Multimedia Use in ETDs......Page 74
STANDARDS ACTIVITY......Page 76
Authority Linking......Page 77
THE UNION CATALOG PROJECT......Page 78
THE VIRTUA NDLTD PORTAL......Page 79
CURRENT NDLTD RESEARCH EFFORTS......Page 81
SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY......Page 83
MULTILINGUAL AND CROSS-LINGUAL SEARCHING......Page 85
REFERENCES......Page 86
DESCRIPTION......Page 90
HOW TO MAKE A COLLECTION ACCESSIBLE......Page 91
REFERENCES......Page 93
INTRODUCTION......Page 94
TECHNICAL CHOICES AND POWER GAMES......Page 96
WRITING AND SUPERVISION......Page 97
TRANSLATION OF INVESTIGATION CHOICES FOR DIFFUSION......Page 98
CONCLUSION......Page 100
ENDNOTES......Page 101
8 For Students: Dissertating on the Network......Page 104
WHAT CAN YOU REASONABLY EXPECT FROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS?......Page 105
HOW ARE THESES AND DISSERTATIONS EVOLVING AS A RESULT OF SOFTWARE TOOLS AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES?......Page 106
Usability and Interface Design Resources......Page 108
Web Design Resources......Page 109
Email, Discussion Forums, and Listservs......Page 110
Questionnaires and Feedback Forms......Page 111
Tutorials on Using Commenting or Track Changes Features......Page 112
Chat Rooms......Page 114
AOL’s Instant Messenger Program......Page 115
SHOULD YOU LIMIT ACCESS TO YOUR WORK?......Page 116
REFERENCES......Page 117
ENDNOTES......Page 118
9 Multimedia in ETDs......Page 120
INTRODUCTION......Page 121
Card- or Script-Based Systems......Page 122
Icon-Based Systems......Page 123
Time-Based Systems......Page 124
Visual Programming......Page 125
Requirements of the Developer......Page 126
Ease of Interface Design......Page 127
Media......Page 128
Graphics......Page 129
Animation......Page 130
Product Information......Page 131
REFERENCES......Page 132
INTRODUCTION......Page 134
Metadata......Page 135
Markup Languages......Page 136
Grow-Your-Own Markup......Page 137
Presentation/Semantics Decoupling......Page 138
PRESENTATION......Page 139
XML PROCESSING......Page 140
Valid XML......Page 141
DTD......Page 142
Schema......Page 143
Examples of XML Applications......Page 144
XHTML......Page 145
TRANSFORMATION......Page 146
RELATED TECHNOLOGIES......Page 147
REFERENCES......Page 148
MORE THAN PUTTING DOTS ON THE SCREEN......Page 150
PROPOSED SOLUTION......Page 151
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Markup Language......Page 156
ETD-ML Publishing Model......Page 157
Dublin Core/ETD Extensions......Page 158
Document Structure versus Document Hyperstructure......Page 159
ETDs as Hyperdocuments......Page 160
Benefits......Page 161
REFERENCES......Page 162
BACKGROUND......Page 164
DISSERTATIONS ONLINE AND ITS RESULTS......Page 165
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF MATHEMATICAL DISSERTATIONS......Page 166
THE CONCEPT OF MATHDiss INTERNATIONAL......Page 167
Search Options......Page 168
Archiving Information......Page 169
Contact Persons......Page 170
ENDNOTES......Page 171
13 ETD-db......Page 172
14 Digital Document Durability*......Page 176
Functional Needs......Page 177
Preserving ETDs as Multimedia Documents......Page 178
History......Page 180
Current Discussions of Objectives, Norms, and Standards......Page 183
The CCSDS OAIS Reference Model: A Framework......Page 186
Applying the OAIS Model to Preserving Scholarly Works......Page 187
Metadata for Dissertations......Page 190
Requirements......Page 191
XML and Archiving Standards and Conventions......Page 192
Interpreting the Blobs in 10 Years or Much Later......Page 193
Syntactic and Metadata Standards......Page 198
DISCUSSION......Page 199
CONCLUSIONS......Page 201
APPENDIX: U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION......Page 202
REFERENCES......Page 203
WHAT IS AN OPENURL?......Page 212
DEMONSTRATION AND TECHNICAL DETAILS......Page 214
OPENURL STANDARDIZATION......Page 217
REFERENCES......Page 219
METADATA ELEMENTS......Page 222
Sample Record......Page 223
DOCUMENT HISTORY......Page 224
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 225
dc.description......Page 227
dc.contributor......Page 228
dc.format......Page 229
dc.language......Page 230
thesis.degree......Page 231
ENCODINGS......Page 232
INTRODUCTION......Page 234
RELEVANT GROUPS AND PROJECT TEAM COMPOSITION......Page 235
Issues......Page 237
EXPERIMENTATION PHASE......Page 239
TRANSITION PHASE......Page 240
INSTITUTIONALIZATION PHASE......Page 241
CONCLUSIONS......Page 242
REFERENCES......Page 245
18 Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Two Surveys of Editors and Publishers......Page 246
2000 SURVEY (DALTON)......Page 247
2001 SURVEY (SEAMANS)......Page 248
Review of Responses......Page 252
Responses to Question 3A......Page 253
2001 SURVEY: PROCEDURE......Page 258
Review of Responses......Page 259
CONCLUSIONS......Page 262
REFERENCES......Page 263
DIGITAL LIBRARIES......Page 264
DIGITAL PUBLISHING......Page 266
THE DISSERTATION AS A DOCUMENT AND AS A LITERATURE......Page 270
THE UMI POSITION......Page 272
REFERENCES......Page 274
The DMCA in Depth......Page 278
The New Millennium Institutional Service Provider: Is It Fair?......Page 280
Criminal Consequences and Liability in the Digital Age......Page 283
Is It “My” Internet Course?......Page 284
TEACH In Depth......Page 287
CONCLUSION......Page 289
REFERENCES......Page 290
ENCOURAGING ETD CREATION UNIVERSITYWIDE......Page 292
THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY EXPERIENCE......Page 295
Pilot Project Participants Were Not “Techies”......Page 298
oducing a Traditional Thesis or Dissertation .........Page 299
APPENDIX: AWARENESS AND ADOPTION DIGITAL LIBRARY INSTRUMENT......Page 300
REFERENCES......Page 309
IMPROVED ACCESS TO INFORMATION RESOURCES......Page 312
UNIVERSITYWIDE COST SAVINGS......Page 314
SOFTWARE STANDARDS......Page 315
SECURITY......Page 317
ARCHIVING......Page 318
LIBRARIES AS TRAINING FACILITIES......Page 319
CONCLUSION......Page 320
23 Electronic Scholarship and Citations: Documentation and ETDs......Page 322
AUTHORIZING SCHOLARSHIP IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE......Page 323
CITING ETDs......Page 324
EXPANDING THE (SCHOLARLY) WORLD......Page 328
CONCLUSION......Page 330
REFERENCES......Page 331
24 Indexing and Accessing Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Some Concerns for Users......Page 334
REFERENCES......Page 342
THESES IN GENERAL AND THE ADT PROJECT......Page 344
THE ADT MODEL......Page 345
ADT PROGRAM STANDARDS......Page 346
MORE INFORMATION......Page 347
THE INITIATIVE (1)......Page 348
Funding by the German National Research Foundation......Page 349
DEVELOPMENT IN SUBGROUPS......Page 350
Legal Aspects......Page 351
Libraries: Workflow and Archiving......Page 352
LINKING THE GERMAN ACTIVITIES TO INTERNATIONAL ETD PROJECTS......Page 353
NOTES......Page 354
DEPOSIT COLLECTIONS......Page 356
DIGITAL DEPOSIT COLLECTIONS......Page 357
Functional Requirements......Page 358
GENRES......Page 360
Requirements......Page 362
DIENST STANDARD SERVER......Page 364
Workflow......Page 365
Deposit......Page 366
Metadata......Page 367
FUTURE......Page 369
REFERENCES......Page 370
INTRODUCTION......Page 372
DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND ETDs......Page 374
BASIC ASPECTS OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM......Page 375
Introduction to an ETD Project......Page 376
Metadata......Page 377
ETDs......Page 378
THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING STUDENTS......Page 379
TRADITIONAL FACE-TO-FACE SITUATION......Page 380
REFERENCES......Page 381
Index......Page 392
