I have been wondering over the past few weeks whether there is sufficient
overlap between the NDLTD and OAI initiatives. Obviously the NDLTD came
first, but for those interested more lately in digital theses, there do seem
to be similarities on the surface at least with e-prints. Surely there
should be efforts at least to try to get the metadata and harvesting
interfaces identical or at worst compatible?
A question for a different list I guess is how well e-prints systems might
meet the needs of digital theses (which might be a question of what
additional needs the latter have).
--
Chris Rusbridge
Director of Information Services, University of Glasgow
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> Subject: Thesis and Dissertaion metadata and the development of tools
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>
> The Metadata Standards committee of the NDLTD Electronic Theses and
> Dissertation (ETD) project met at OCLC for two days this week
> to review
> their draft metadata standard. This group is a subcommittee of the
> international project to standardize and support a global
> digital library
> for ETDs led by by Ed Fox of Virginia Tech
> http://www.ndltd.org/. There are
> more than 100 member institutions from some 15 or so
> countries participating
> in this effort (further information about thier upcoming
> annual meeting is
> available at http://library.calteh.edu/etd/)
>
>
> The metadata committee met with DCMI and OCLC staff to discuss both
> semantics and encoding issues for the metadata standard. The metadata
> standard embraces both MARC and Dub ilin Core. It includes basic DC
> elements, qualifiers from the DC Qualifier list, and a small
> collection of
> elements and qualifiers specific to the ETD application.
> This approach is
> very much in keeping with the emergence of application
> profiles as have been
> disussed in the DC community in the past 6 months.
>
> On a related matter, one of the outcomes of this meeting was
> a proposal to
> convene a meeting of tool builders to support common
> approaches to making
> reasonable tools available to support these activities.
> There is already a
> tradition of public domain tools in the DC community, but it
> is probably
> past time for the emergence of next generation tools based on:
> - open source development philosophy
> - RDF as the schema language and interchange format
> - Unicode support
> - local or domain-specific extensibility
> - integration with other technologies such as the Open Archive
> Initiative
>
> I hope the implementors among us will consider this
> possibility and think
> about how their own plans might fit into such a scenario.
> Please bring your
> ideas to the DC-Architecture mailing list for further discussion:
>
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-architecture.html
regards,
stu
Stuart Weibel
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