Programme

Monday 12 September 2011
09:00-10:30 NDLTD Board Meeting, Room 5 DATAD Meeting, Room 3  
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-12:30 NDLTD Board Meeting, Room 5 DATAD Meeting, Room 3
12:30-13.30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 NDLTD Board Meeting, Room 5 DATAD Meeting, Room 3 NETD Meeting, Millenium Registration
15:00-15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30-17:00 NDLTD Board Meeting, Room 5 DATAD Meeting, Room 3 NETD Meeting, Millenium

** Please note that the NDLTD, DATAD and NETD meetings are not open to all conference participants.

Tuesday 13 September 2011
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Tutorial: ETDs for Rookies, Auditorium Registration
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-12:00 Tutorial: ETDs for Rookies, Auditorium
12:00-13.00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 Tutorial: ETDs for Rookies, Auditorium
15:00-16:00  
16:00-18:00

Conference Opening

Auditorium

Chair: Felix Ubogu

Welcome: Dr Gansen Pillay, Vice-President: Research and Innovation, Support and Advancement, NRF

Welcome: Prof. Arnold van Zyl, Vice-Rector: Research, Stellenbosch University

Welcome: Prof. Thandabantu Nhlapo, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town

Welcome: Prof. Edward A. Fox, Executive Director, NDLTD

Opening Keynote Address: Prof. Olugbemiro Jegede, Secretary-General, Association of African Universities, Access to Information: A 21st Century Imperative to Global Development

Major Sponsor Address: Austin McLean, Director: Scholarly Communication and Dissertation Publishing, Proquest, The 5 Top Trends in Graduate Education Worldwide

Welcome from Conference Chair: Dr Daisy Selematsela, Executive Director: Knowledge Management and Evaluation, NRF
18:00-20:00

Cocktail Reception

Exhibition Hall
Wednesday 14 September 2011
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:00

Auditorium

Chair: Hannie Sander

Keynote address: Prof. Adam Habib, DVC: Research, Innovation and Advancement, University of Johannesburg, The democratic right to information and the implications for academic institutions
10:00-10:30 Tea/Coffee
10:30-12:30

Paper Session 1A - Publishing and Plagiarism, Pavilion

Chair: Ina Smith

The role of stakeholders: Electronic Theses and Dissertations submission workflow for the University of Johannesburg - Lazarus Matizirofa (SA)

Do ETDs Deter Publishers? Does Web availability count as prior publicaton? - Marisa Ramirez, Gail Mcmillan, Joan Dalton, Nancy Seamans and Max Read (US & Canada)

Where Sharing Should Not Go: An Environmental Scan of Originality Assurance Awareness and Efforts to Discourage or Prevent Plagiarism - Charles Greenberg and Austin Mclean (US)

Electronic Theses and Dissertation in Nigeria University Libraries: Status, Challenges and Strategies - Ifeanyi J Ezema and Cyprian Ugwu (Nigeria)

Paper Session 1B - Open Access and Institutional Repositories, Millenium

Chair: Reggie Raju

Institutional Repositories for Open Access; the Ghanaian Experience - Abednego Corletey (Ghana)

Building Institutional Repositories in KLISC Member Institutions in Kenya: Emerging challenges - Rosemary Otando (Kenya)

Two South African Institutional Repositories: a comparative overview - Annah Macha and Karin De Jager (SA)

Assessing Awareness of Repositories and the Open Access Movement Among ETD Faculty Advisors - Molly Dolan (US)

Panel Session 1C - NDLTD Union Catalog, Auditorium

Moderator: Edward A. Fox

Participants:

Iryna Kuchma, eIFL.net

Ana Pavani, PUC-Rio, Brazil

Sharon Reeves, Library and Archives, Canada

Peter Schirmbacher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Peter E. Sidorko, The University of Hong Kong

Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town
12:30-13.30 Lunch
13:30-15.00

Auditorium

Chair: Gail McMillan

NDLTD ETD Awards

Sponsor Address: Elsevier

Poster Presentations
15:00-15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30-17:00

Paper Session 2A - Digitization, Pavilion

Chair: Joan Lippincott

ETD Initiatives in Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO): Successes, challenges, prospects - Chinwe Anunobi and Collette Onyebinama (Nigeria)

Digitization of Theses and Dissertations: Status Quo India - Dr. Mangala Hirwade (India)

Creative Partnerships to Advance Graduate Research in the Digital Age - John Hagen (US)

Paper Session 2B - Access, Millenium

Chair: Pateka Matshaya

Enhanced Browsing System for Electronic Theses and
Dissertations - Venkat Srinivasan, Mohamed Magdy and Edward Fox (US)

Examining access by country, language and areas of knowledge - Ana Pavani (Brazil)

Data Desiccation: Facilitating long-term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs - Daniel Alemneh and Mark Phillips (US)

Paper Session 2C - National Initiatives, Auditorium

Chair: Peter Schirmbacher

First a trial balloon, now an established workflow: collecting electronic thesis at the German National Library - Uta Ackermann (Germany)

Creating a National Electronic Thesis & Disertation Portal in South Africa - Lawrence Webley, Hussein Suleman and Tatenda Chipeperekwa (SA)

Towards National ETD Database: Responsibilities for the Libraries in Kenya - John Thuku (Kenya)
18:00-22:00

Conference Dinner

Moyo@Spier
Thursday 15 September 2011
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:00

Auditorium

Chair: Janine Dunlop

Keynote address: Michele Kimpton, CEO, Duraspace, The future of repositories and the impact of the cloud
10:00-10:30 Tea/Coffee
10:30-12:30

Paper Session 3A - People and Theses, Pavilion

Chair: Ana Pavani

Thesis and Dissertations Management Overview in Kosovo - Shukrije Rama (Serbia)

University Digital Scholarship Centers and Support for Graduate Thesis and Dissertation Work - Joan Lippincott (US)

Social factors influencing the adoption and development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) programmes in the Arab Gulf States - Jamal Alsalmi, Dr. Chern Li Liew and Brenda Chawner (New Zealand)

The dot on the i: reflections of a postgraduate student and repository manager on the etd process at the University of Pretoria - Elsabe Olivier and Ina Louw (SA)

Paper Session 3B - ETD Tools, Millenium

Chair: Suzie Allard

VT ETD-db 2.0: Rewriting ETD-db System - Sung Hee Park, Paul Mather, Kimberli D. Weeks, Edward A. Fox and Gail Mcmillan (US)

Enriching the VT ETD-db System with References - Sung Hee Park and Edward A. Fox (US)

CARPET - a Directory of Generic Publishing Tools - Peter Schirmbacher (Germany)

Panel Session 3C - Open Access ETDs and Publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Auditorium

Moderator: Iryna Kuchma

Participants:

Yolanda Booyzen, Pretoria University Law Press

Eve Gray, University of Cape Town

Kate Huddelstone, Stellenbosch University

Jeremy Wightman, HSRC Press

 
12:30-13.30 Lunch
13:30-15.00

Closing Ceremony

Auditorium

Chair: Hussein Suleman

NDLTD Update

ETD2012 presentation
15:00-15:30 Tea/Coffee
Friday 16 September 2011
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Workshop: Data Curation, Millenium Workshop: Lets get started! Creating Institutional Repositories using open source software, Stellenbosch University
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-12:30 Workshop: Data Curation, Millenium Workshop: Lets get started! Creating Institutional Repositories using open source software, Stellenbosch University
12:30-13.30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Workshop: Distributed Digital Preservation for ETDs, Millenium Workshop: Lets get started! Creating Institutional Repositories using open source software, Stellenbosch University
15:00-15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30-17:00 Workshop 1: Distributed Digital Preservation for ETDs, Millenium Workshop: Lets get started! Creating Institutional Repositories using open source software, Stellenbosch University
Saturday 17 September 2011
09:00-10:30 Workshop: Lets get started! Creating Institutional Repositories using open source software, Stellenbosch University
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-12:30 Workshop: Lets get started! Creating Institutional Repositories using open source software, Stellenbosch University
12:30-13.30 Lunch

Accepted papers

The following papers have been accepted:

  1. Digitization efforts in the Federal University of Technology Owerri (Futo): successes, challenges, prospects/Chinwe Anunobi & Collette Onyebinama
  2. Do ETDs deter publishers? Does web availability count as prior publication?/Marisa Ramirez, Gail Mcmillan, Joan Dalton, Nancy Seamans & Max Read
  3. The dot on the i: reflections of a postgraduate student and repository manager on the etd process at the University of Pretoria/Elsabé Olivier & Ina Louw
  4. Thesis and dissertations management overview in Kosovo/Shukrije Rama
  5. Institutional repositories for open access: the Ghanaian experience/Abednego Corletey
  6. Electronic theses and dissertations in Nigeria University Libraries: status, challenges and strategies/Ifeanyi J Ezema & Cyprian Ugwu
  7. Creative partnerships to advance graduate research in the digital age/John Hagen
  8. Towards a National ETD Database: responsibilities of the libraries in Kenya/John Thuku
  9. First a trial balloon, now an established workflow: collecting electronic thesis at the German National Library/Uta Ackermann
  10. CARPET - a Directory of Generic Publishing Tools/Peter Schirmbacher
  11. Creating a National Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Portal in South Africa/Lawrence Webley, Hussein Suleman & Tatenda Chipeperekwa
  12. Building institutional repositories in KLISC Member Institutions in Kenya: emerging challenges/Rosemary Otando
  13. Assessing awareness of repositories and the Open Access Movement among ETD Faculty Advisors/Molly Dolan
  14. Enriching the VT ETD-db System with references/Sung Hee Park & Edward A. Fox
  15. Social factors influencing the adoption and development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) programmes in the Arab Gulf States/Jamal Alsalmi, Dr Chern Li Liew & Brenda Chawner
  16. Data desiccation: facilitating long-term access, use, and reuse of ETDs/Daniel Alemneh & Mark Phillips
  17. Two South African institutional repositories: a comparative overview/Annah Macha & Karin De Jager
  18. Examining access by country, language and areas of knowledge/Ana Pavani
  19. Where Sharing Should Not Go: An Environmental Scan of Originality Assurance Awareness and Efforts to Discourage or Prevent Plagiarism/Charles Greenberg & Austin Mclean
  20. Improving accessibility to collections of electronic theses and dissertations/Venkat Srinivasan & Edward Fox
  21. University digital scholarship centers and support for graduate thesis and dissertation work/Joan Lippincott
  22. VT ETD-db 2.0: rewriting ETD-db system/Sung Hee Park, Paul Mather, Kimberli D. Weeks, Edward A. Fox & Gail Mcmillan
  23. The role of stakeholders: electronic theses and dissertations submission workflow for the University of Johannesburg/Lazarus Matizirofa
  24. Digitization of theses and dissertations: status quo India/Dr Mangala Hirwade
  25. Panel on plans related to the NDLTD Union Catalog/Edward Fox

Accepted posters

The following posters have been accepted:

  1. Digital library operations and services in Nnamdi Azikiwe University: problems and prospects/Chinwe Anunobi & Andrew Ogbonna
  2. Towards a paradigm shift in the preservation and dissemination of socio-demographic data in Africa/Awung Frankline Atemnkeng
  3. Enhancing regional research and education ICT networks for electronic theses and dissertations dissemination projects in Africa/Wilson Okaka
  4. The status of the ETD program at the University of Khartoum/Omer Hassan
  5. Implementation of an institutional repository at the University of Zambia/Henry Panganani Zulu
  6. Challenges in setting up open access institutional repositories in academic and research libraries Africa: a case study/Richard B. Lamptey
  7. Challenges in managing electronic theses and dissertations in Nigeria: the University of Nigeria Nsukka experience/Scholastica Ukwoma, Vincent Ekwelem & Nkeiruka Iwundu
  8. Populating institutional repositories: a case study of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana/Abednego Corletey & Chriatian Kofi
  9. Establishment of institutional repositories in selected college and academic libraries in Kenya/Doreen Anyona
  10. Approach incorporating KOS techniques for focused information retrieval in the ETDs / DLs/Bhojaraju Gunjal & Shalini R Urs
  11. Mobile access to an institutional repository’s content/Adewole Adewumi & Nicholas Ikhu-Omoregbe
  12. Digitization of library materials and access to electronic resources: a study of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Headquarters Library/Cynthia Kimani & Cynthia Kimani
  13. The Unisa Institutional Repository (UnisaIR): an African digital research repository in service of humanity/Ansie van der Westhuizen
  14. Electronic Theses and Dissertation Portal in Panjab University, Chandigarh: a pilot project/Raj Kumar
  15. Integrating the user’s desktop with the repository : metadata standards/Dimakatso Raphesu
  16. Multimedia electronic theses and dissertations: unlocking university knowledge/Harun Mugo
  17. ETDs in Brazil: an overview of the current situation/Ana Pavani
  18. CAMES digital library: towards a portal for ETD dissemination in Francophone countries/Zakari Lire & Félicité Ouedraogo
  19. Issues and challenges in implementing institutional repositories/Poloko Ntokwane
  20. Planning for an institutional repository with stakeholders involvement: a case for Kenya Methodist University/Nancy Kamau
  21. Assessment of digital library initiatives in Nigerian Universities/Abdulmumin Isah
  22. Digitisation of University of Moratuwa Theses & Dissertations/Ruwan Gamage & Buddhin Kumara
  23. Ontology-based student mental modeling in the ETD era/Zhengxin Chen