{"id":125,"date":"2014-07-28T10:53:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T10:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/?p=125"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:20","slug":"etd2014-electronic-theses-and-dissertations-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/2014\/07\/28\/etd2014-electronic-theses-and-dissertations-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"ETD2014 &#8211; Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently helped out running\u00a0Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2014 at University of Leicester 23rd &#8211; 25th July 2014 with colleagues from Academic Liaison in the Library.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/files\/2014\/07\/ETD2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/files\/2014\/07\/ETD2014.jpg\" alt=\"ETD2014 delegates watching a workshop presentation\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/files\/2014\/07\/ETD2014.jpg 400w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/files\/2014\/07\/ETD2014-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ETD2014 session in progress<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before the event I was wondering <em>what more there was to be said about Electronic Theses and Dissertations<\/em> (ETDs):<\/p>\n<p>I learned that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many places in the world are just starting to make ETDs\u00a0available<\/li>\n<li>Leaps and bounds are being made in making ETDs understandable by computers<\/li>\n<li>People are thinking beyond ETDs as an electronic version of essentially a block of written text towards richer digital objects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The size of the conference was perfect for both meeting many colleagues from around the world and having very practical conversations in small groups which I feel can get lost in very large events.<\/p>\n<p>I was impressed at the way structured and carefully curated ETDs could be made available\u00a0and deeply searched so facts could be extracted and presented. We could read a dissertation in traditional fashion from anywhere in the world or extract knowledge from many theses collected as a group. I didn&#8217;t know automated or semi-automated text and image semantic software was so advanced or being worked on by such an active open community.<\/p>\n<p>There is a huge amount of research and analysis done by people earning higher degrees and I&#8217;m glad to be part of making that available to the world in addition to journals and other channels for research publications.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndltd.org\/events\/news\/ndltdetdawards-2014winners\">NDLTD ETD Awards &#8211; 2014 Winners<\/a> were presented and the winners spoke to us live about their work. I liked the idea of rewarding innovative uses of the electronic medium to present a traditional piece of academic writing but to go further than that.<\/p>\n<p>The next ETD conference will be in New Delhi, India from 3th &#8211; 6th November 2015. The theme for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndltd.org\/events\/news\/etd2015symposium\">ETD 2015<\/a> shall be &#8220;Evolving Genre of ETDs for Knowledge Discovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently helped out running\u00a0Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2014 at University of Leicester 23rd &#8211; 25th July 2014 with colleagues from Academic Liaison in the Library. 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