1 / 18

ETD’s at the University of Saskatchewan or…

ETD’s at the University of Saskatchewan or…. David Fox & Darryl Friesen University of Saskatchewan October 4, 2003. Dude, Where’s my Thesis?!. David Fox & Darryl Friesen University of Saskatchewan October 4, 2003. The UofS ETD Process.

fagan
Download Presentation

ETD’s at the University of Saskatchewan or…

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ETD’s at the University of Saskatchewanor… David Fox & Darryl Friesen University of Saskatchewan October 4, 2003

  2. Dude, Where’s my Thesis?! David Fox & Darryl Friesen University of Saskatchewan October 4, 2003

  3. The UofS ETD Process • Illustrates some important current trends in info dissemination/retrieval: • Open source software • Automatic metadata generation • OAI harvesting • Automatic library catalogue updates • Intent is to be maintenance free • minimal staff intervention

  4. Short History of ETD’s at UofS • meeting with Grad Studies, Jan 2002 • Support from Dean of Grad Studies, Library Director • D. Dombrosky, D. Fox, D. Salt attended ETD 2002 Symposium at BYU

  5. ETD 2002 Symposium Provo, Utah May 30 - June 2, 2002

  6. ETD 2002 Symposium Provo, Utah May 30 - June 2, 2002

  7. NDLTD - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations • “a loose federation of member institutions and organizations that publish ETDs”. (Suleman & Fox) • Founded in 1996; 185 member universities and supporting organizations worldwide • NDLTD provides support to universities, libraries, faculties and graduate students to encourage authoring, indexing, archiving, retrieving and disseminating ETDs • software tool for publishing and disseminating ETDs • ETD-ms metadata standard for theses and dissertations • NDLTD union archive • annual EDT symposia

  8. The ETD International Symposia • ETD 2002 – Provo, Utah • ETD 2003 - Berlin • ETD 2004 – 7th International Symposium on ETDs • Lexington, KY – June 3-5, 2004

  9. Short History of ETD’s, continued • Internal report to UofS Library staff, June 2002 • A lot has happened on the past year! • ETD Implementation Task Force: • D. Fox, D. Friesen, D. Salt, VT Lam, D. Dombrosky • Implementation/customization of ETD-db software from Virginia Tech • Pilot project with 49 ETD’s to date

  10. UofS ETD Program: tentative plan • Fall 2002 – pilot project with 20-50 volunteer grad students • Fall 2003 – ETD’s optional for all grad students • Fall 2004 – ETD’s compulsory for all grad students • Development of UofS ETD Site

  11. ETD-db software • Open source software developed at Virginia Tech as a joint project between their Grad School, Digital Library and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) • Implementation of ETD-ms specification developed by NDLTD (and others)

  12. ETD-db: what it is • Web-based system for data entry and theses management • Written in Perl • Uses MySQL database as the backend datastore • Uses a series of templates to allow customization • Can be installed, configured and customized in a matter of days

  13. ETD-db: what it does • Captures source info from grad student • Manages the ETD development process • Communicates by email with grad student, thesis supervisors, Grad Studies • ETD isn’t published until reviewed and approved by Grad Studies • Installs an OAI server • Makes records available for harvesting in a variety of metadata formats, incl. DC, ETD-ms, MARC • Separate local file of MARC communications records

  14. Grad Student Committee / Advisors NDLTD OAI Repository OCLC OAI Repository data entry / maintenance Additional OAI Repositories external repositories browse / search ETD-db: how it works SQL Database (MySQL) OAI Server Web Server MARC DC, ETD-ms, MARC … Library Catalogue

  15. ETD creation and approval • ETD creation process • Login to Library ETD site • Complete “Add New Main Record” form, add supervisor info, upload files • ETD approval process • Login to ETD administration site • Review and manage submitted, approved, withheld ETD’s

  16. ETD output • ETD’s in the Catalogue • Run the marc.php script to display the MARC source • Do local call number search for “Electronic Thesis” to display ETD’s in Web OPAC • ETD’s on the Web • Google Search • OAI Repository Explorer • NDLTD OAI ETD Union Catalog • OCLC XTCat NDLTD

  17. Conclusions • Dude, where’s my thesis? everywhere! • In the Catalogue, in the general Web search engines, in the OCLC XTCat NDLTD thesis union list, and elsewhere • DC is sufficient to describe theses and many other types of publications. MARC is overkill for ETD’s • The ETD-db model for creation and dissemination of metadata has relevance for other types of local information: e.g. archival, special collections materials

  18. Some Useful URLs NDLTD - http://www.ndltd.org/ ETD-db software - http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/ ETD Digital Library - http://www.theses.org/ ETD 2004 - http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004/ Suleman, H., and Fox, E., Towards Universal Accessibility of ETDs: Building the NDLTD Union Archive, 2002 Leveraging OAI harvesting to disseminate theses, 2003

More Related