Paper Info
Title
Knowledge discovery in digital libraries of electronic theses and dissertations: an NDLTD case study
Abstract
Many scholarly writings today are available in electronic formats. With universities around the world choosing to make digital versions of their dissertations, theses, project reports, and related files and data sets available online, an overwhelming amount of information is becoming available on almost any particular topic. How will users decide which dissertation, or subsection of a dissertation, to read to get the required information on a particular topic? What kind of services can such digital libraries provide to make knowledge discovery easier? In this paper, we investigate these issues, using as a case study the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), a rapidly growing collection that already has about 800,000 Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) from universities around the world. We propose the design for a scalable, Web Services based tool KDWebS (Knowledge Discovery System based on Web Services), to facilitate automated knowledge discovery in NDLTD. We also provide some preliminary proof of concept results to demonstrate the efficacy of the approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/s00799-008-0046-9
Int. J. on Digital Libraries
Keywords
DocType
Volume
large digital libraries · ndltd · knowledge discovery · web services · concept maps · electronic theses and dissertations · cross language information retrieval
Journal
9
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1432-1300
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ryan Richardson1273.81
Venkat Srinivasan2205.79
Edward A. Fox33966921.62