ETD2003

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ETD2003 Next Steps Electronic Theses and
Dissertations Worldwide

• Susanne Dobratz

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Thanks to all of you!

• My collegues from Humboldt-University
• Programme Committee
• NDLTD for trusting us to hold this conference
• All participants
• It couldnt have happend without you!

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Thanks to all of you!

• Funding Organisations
• UNESCO (Axel Plathe)
• Open Society Institute New York (Melissa
  Hagemann)
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• German Academic Research Foundation (DFG)
• Commercial Sponsors
• Brocade, CISCO Systems, Controlware, Enterasys,
  ExLibris, IBM Germany and Carus, ImageWare,
  Lehmanns, LIB-IT GmbH, NIONEX, Springer, SUN
  Microsystems and T-Systems.

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We reached new dimensions

• 215 Participants from 46 Countries
• 28 Vendors
• 68 Speakers

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Programme Highlights

• Standardization
• Preservation as primary issues
• XML as a publication strategy / workflow
• Lot of talks about national efforts regional
  consortia efforts
• Implementation issues
• Training methods
• Library issues

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Highlights

• Well attended Tutorials on Tuesday
• Cybertheses (Martin Sévigny)
• DissertationOnline (Peter Diepold, Collegues from
  German National Library)
• XML for ETDs (Matthias Schulz, Sabine
  Henneberger, Susanne Dobratz)
• More tomorrow
• OAI (Uwe Müller, Heinrich Stamerjohanns)
• ETds for Beginners (Ed Fox)

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Highlights

• Mr. Simon, the Chess Player
• Reception in Senatehall and Sight Seeing Tour on
  Wednesday
• Dinner with Dinosaurs on Thursday

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NDLTD

• Established a new board of directors,
• Groups
• Series of Conferences
• 2004 University of Kentucky, Lexington (USA)
• 2005 University of New South Wales, Sydney
  (Australia)

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Communication Technology

• ETD2003 Conference software
• Abstracts
• Fulltexts in XML / HTML available
• UNESCO database to be integrated into NDLTD
  website

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UNESCO Clearing HouseThe Idea

• Initiated by UNESCO headquarters in September 99
• The aim
• To define the needs of developing countries in
  the area of ETD
• To discuss possible international actions
• To setup a database of institutions, experts,
  and materials

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UNESCO Clearing HouseThe Database

• Collection of entries on a voluntarily
  baseeditorial checking and activating
• No many entries until the end of 2002
• Attempt to reactivate it to create a network of
  experts and activities
• First step ETD 2003

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UNESCO Clearing HouseThe Vision

• Need more
• People
• Materials
• To get a portal for worldwide
• Exchange of ideas and experiences
• Initiate cooperations
• Assistance for new projects
• http//www.eduserver.de/unesco/

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Conclusion by Sarantos Kapidakis

• The ETDs belong to the category of the grey
  literature which is essential to be known to the
  researchers, academics, students etc. Except for
  the cases of patent pending, ETDs should be open
  and accessible to all, because this is the
  purpose of the existence of digital libraries of
  Theses and Dissertations.
• The electronic submission and access of ETDs
  gives the opportunity to students and academics
  to know about the evolution of the research in
  their topic. This ensures the promotion of the
  research and the development of the new
  technologies. In contrast, the printed ETDs were
  unknown and rarely used.
• In conclusion, the purpose is the development of
  a global digital library of ETDs, which will be
  very useful for all.