Programme Overview

All sessions will be held in room X in the Uppsala University building if not otherwise announced.

12.00 -	Registration opens
13.00 — 17.00	NDLTD Intro
	European E-theses working group Workshop






17.30 —	Opening Reception Information about Uppsala and Linneaus Kerstin Sahlin Prorektor, Uppsala University introduced by Ulf Göranson, Director, Uppsala University Library

08.30 —	Registration opens
08.45 — 08.55	Sponsor Presentation: Genuine Text
09.00 — 09.10	Welcome to Uppsala Speaker: Ulf Göranson, Director, Uppsala University Library
09.10 — 09.30	NDLTD: Past, Present, and Future Speaker: Ed Fox, Director, NDLTD
09.30 — 10.30	Plenary Key Note: The dissertation in an age of data driven humanities
	Speaker: Greg Crane
10.30 — 11.00	Coffee Break
11.00 — 12.30	Realising the Vision of ETDs Room: X Chair: Susan Copeland, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland	Understanding the Issues Room: IX Chair: Sharon Reeves, Library and Archives of Canada	ETDs and Institutional Repositories Room: IV Chair: Marianne Moe, NTNU, Norway


12.30 — 14.00	Lunch


14.00 — 15.30	Panel Discussion: Usability: Perspectives from Research, Publishing, and Higher Education Institutions
	Chair: Joan Lippincot
	Speakers: Else Nygren, G. Sayeed Choudhury, Joris van Rossum
15.30 — 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 — 17.30	NDLTD ETD Awards Presentation John Hagen, West Virginia University, USA; chair NDLTD ETD Awards Committee Posters and Demos


17.30 — 19.30	Guide Tour of Uppsala

08.45 — 08.55	Sponsor Presentation: Urkund
09.00 — 10.00	Plenary Key Note: The Power of the Electronic Scientific Thesis
	Speaker: Peter Murray-Rust
10.00 — 10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 — 12.00	Implementation Solutions Room: X Chair: Susanne Dobratz, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany	Discovery and Access Room: IX Chair: Ana Pavani, LAMBDA – DEE, PUC-Rio, Brazil	Institutional and Country Initiatives Room: IV Chair: Eric Van de Velde, California Institute of Technology, USA


12.00 — 13.30	Lunch


13.30 — 15.00	National Services Room: X Chair: Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech, USA	Next Generation ETDs Room: IX Chair: Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information, USA	Institutional and Country Initiatives Room: IV Chair: John Hagen, West Virginia University, USA


15.00 — 15.30	Coffee Break
15.30 — 17.30	Panel Discussion: Added Values and E-Science
	Chair: Clifford Lynch
	Speakers: Lars Juhl Jensen, Erik Mellander, Peter Murray-Rust

17.30 — 19.00


19.00 —	Conference Dinner

09.00 — 10.30

Next Generation ETDs
Room: X
Chair: Eva Müller, National Library of Sweden

Institutional and Country Initiatives
Room: IX
Chair: Margareta Fathli, Stockholm University Library, Sweden

Policy Issues
Room: IV
Chair: Neil Jacobs, JISC, UK

10.30 — 11.00

Coffee Break

11.00 — 12.00

Closing Key Note

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

12.00 — 12.30

Closing Session: ETD 2008 Handover
Chair:
Eva Müller, National Library of Sweden
Susan Copeland, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

12.45 — 16.00/18.00

Boat Trip to Skokloster	Carolus Linnaeus - A guided tour