SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1999

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Registration: DBHCC Lobby

4 - 6 p.m.

CAVE Tours: 10x10x10' immersive virtual reality room
Car pool to Corporate Research Center every 30 minutes in groups of 10

6 - 7 p.m.

Reception: DBHCC Alumni Hall

MONDAY, May 17, 1999

7:30-8:30 a.m.

• Breakfast for new members of the NDLTD: DBHCC Private Dining Room
• Registration: DBHCC Lobby

8:40 a.m.

Welcome to Virginia Tech: Dr. Len Peters, Vice Provost for Research/Dean of the Graduate School

8:50 a.m.

Overview of the 1999 ETD Workshop: Dr. John Eaton, Associate Provost for Graduate Studies

9 a.m.

Ad hoc summaries of ETD projects from workshop participants

10 a.m.

Break: DBHCC Ambulatory (outside Auditorium)

10:30 a.m.

PANEL: Graduate Schools: ETDs and Implementing the Process

• John Eaton, Virginia Tech (moderator)
• Robert Johnson, Miami University
• Richard Lutz, University of Florida

11:15a.m.

PANEL: ETDs: Issues and Challenges for Academic Libraries

• Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech (moderator)
• John Hagen, West Virginia University
• Berna Hayman, College of William and Mary
• Martha Hruska, University of Florida

12 p.m.

Lunch: DBHCC Old Guard (just off the main dining room)

1:20 p.m.

ETD Submission: Overview of software available to NDLTD members

• Tony Atkins (software developer), Scholarly Communications Project, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

1:50 p.m.

PANEL: Archives and Publishing

• Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech (moderator)
• Leroy Bell, Air University Electronic Publishing
• Lisle Brown, Marshall University, Special Collections
• Patrick Conner, West Virginia University Press
• Clifford Muse, Howard University Archive

2:45 p.m.

PANEL: Student Training: Issues and Experiences

• John Eaton, moderator
• Robert Hall, Virginia Tech
• Donald Grossman, University of Florida
• Joseph Moxley, University of South Florida

3:15 p.m.

Break: DBHCC Ambulatory (outside Auditorium)

3:45 p.m. : Concurrent Sessions

• Graduate School and Faculty Concerns: John Eaton, moderator
  Topics of discussion may include: access restrictions, intellectual property rights, publisher relations, and .....
• Information Technology: Edward Fox, moderator
  Topics of discussion may include: multilingual issues, multimedia standards, search engines, and ....

5:15 p.m. : Technology Tours

• New Media Center (faculty and student training site)
  Follow Gail McMillan to Newman Library, 2^nd floor; Ed Schwartz, NMC co-director

  110 McBryd Hall: new NDLTD video, annotation demonstration by Todd Miller

TUESDAY, May 18, 1999

8:30 a.m.

PANEL: Encoding Initiatives (SGML, XML, HTML, ETD-ML, MARC, Metadata)

• Neill Kipp, Virginia Tech
• John Gardner, University of Iowa
• Paul Mather, Virginia Tech

9:15 a.m.

PANEL: Beyond PDF: Publishing Standards for Preservation

• Edward Fox, Virginia Tech
• Joan Dalton, University of Windsor
• Joseph Moxley, University of South Florida

10 a.m.

Break: DBHCC Ambulatory (outside Auditorium)

10:30 a.m.

Continuing Evolution of the NDLTD: Edward Fox, Virginia Tech
Topics to include: What have we achieved? Where are our greatest challenges? Do we have another workshop? When? Where?

12 p.m.   The End.

This workshop has been brought to you by the VT ETD Team

• John Eaton, Graduate School, Associate Provost for Graduate Studies

  Bob Hall, graduate student

• Ed Fox, Professor of Computer Science

  Neill A. Kipp, graduate student

  Paul Mather, graduate student

  Todd Miller, student

  Constintinos Phanouri, graduate student

• Gail McMillan, Library, Scholarly Communications Project Director

  Tony Atkins, ETD Programmer/Analyst

Send comments to webmaster@scholar.lib.vt.edu http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/NDLTD/99workshop/program.html created May 15, 1998; updated July 25, 2005 (GMc)