ETD-db: Workflow, the Short Story Edward A. Fox and Gail McMillan Virginia Tech ([email protected], [email protected]) Newcomers’ Workshop @ ETD 2009 University of Pittsburgh, 10 June 2009
ETD-db: Workflow, the Short Story Edward A. Fox and Gail McMillan Virginia Tech ([email protected], [email protected]) Newcomers’ Workshop @ ETD 2009 University.
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ETD-db: Workflow, the Short Story
Edward A. Fox and Gail McMillan
Virginia Tech
([email protected], [email protected])
Newcomers’ Workshop @ ETD 2009
University of Pittsburgh, 10 June 2009
About ETD-db
Web (html) pages and Perl scripts that interact with a MySQL database
Used by researchers, ETD authors, graduate school personnel, and library personnel to enter and manage files and metadata metadata and attach their ETDs
Developed at Virginia Tech Digital Library and Archives (authored, maintains)
Graduate School
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Is available FREE of charge to members of NDLTD.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/
ETD-db Workflow: Student Authors
Login Enter details (metadata) such as name, title
of the ETD, degree, department, committee members, keywords, abstract, copyright statement, etc.
Set access level for the ETD – Worldwide access– Restricted access (host university-only)– Embargoed access (inaccessible to everybody)
ETD-db Workflow: Graduate School
Submitted ETD is stored in ETD-db on library server
Graduate School personnel login– Access list of submitted ETDs
• Can email and maintain record of communication with student authors
– Approve ETDs
ETD-db Workflow: Graduate School
Approving an ETD automatically generates– Emails
• Congratulations to author and committee
• Notifies UMI/ProQuest
– List of ETDs to be cataloged– Access
• Public
• University-only
– Inaccessible: Embargoed/Withheld ETDs
ETD-db Workflow: Library
Hosts ETD-DB Hosts ETD server
– Provides access
– Maintains embargoed/hidden ETDs
Separate from ETD-db– Catalogs ETDs
– Systematic data backups
– Preservation through NDLTD/MetaArchive collaboration
ETD-db software is free to NDLTD
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db
Contact Gail McMillanDigital Library and Archives, Virginia Tech
Talk to Gail at the Technology Fair
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