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NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD skills requirements: the bottom line

Dr Dale PetersDISA

Digital Innovation South Africa

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

DISA Background

• Pilot feasibility study • Themed repository• Technological advancement• Skills development • Digital curation • Open source, open access, local

content

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Discussion Framework

• Operationalisation of NETD project• National project implementation• Institutional ETD project• Skills requirements

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD

Institutional repository (Option 1)

Consortium repository(Option 3)

User

Digital theses (Option 2)Institutional repositories

Direct submission

Harvested by central Hub

Harvested by central Hub

Search and download e-theses

COPELAND, S (2006) The EThoS toolkit. ETD Workshop, Quebec 2006

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

OAI Philosophy..

• Self-archiving = mediated submission mechanism

• Long-term storage system = archive• Open interface = harvesting mechanism• Data provider + service provider• Start with “gray literature”

– e-prints/pre-prints, reports, dissertations,

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Open Access to Research

• Full text online• Research workshops to prepare students for

online submission• Questions of copyright and fair use • Aim to prepare graduate students for future roles

as tutors, researchers, authors, and instructors.

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD Implementation

• Strategic objectives in establishment of a national digital library comprising ETD

• Inter-institutional co-operation• Adopt common standards• Advocacy within user community• Systems infrastructure• Establish collaborative and distributed workflow

processes

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD Implementation

• Strategic objectives of a digital library comprising ETD

• Inter-institutional co-operation• Adopt common standards• Advocacy within user community

– National– Institutional

• Implement software tools • Establish workflow processes

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD Implementation

• Strategic objectives of a digital library comprising ETD

• Inter-institutional co-operation• Adopt common standards• Advocacy within user community

– National– Institutional

• Implement software tools • Establish workflow processes

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD Implementation • Strategic objectives of a digital library comprising ETD• Inter-institutional co-operation• Adopt common standards

– National metadata

standard for ETD– Guidelines for capture and QA– Systems infrastructure

• Advocacy within user community– National

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD Implementation

• Strategic objectives of a digital library comprising ETD

• Inter-institutional co-operation• Adopt common standards• Advocacy within user

community– National– Institutional

• Implement software tools

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD Implementation

• Strategic objectives of a digital library comprising ETD

• Inter-institutional co-operation• Adopt common standards• Advocacy within user community

– National– Institutional

• Implement software tools

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD Implementation

• Strategic objectives in establishment of a national digital library comprising ETD

• Inter-institutional co-operation• Adopt common standards• Advocacy within user community

– National– Institutional

• Implement software tools • Establish collaborative workflow processes

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

National Implementation Plan

• National metadata repository– MoA with institutions – Policies – Systems infrastructure– National metadata standard for ETD– Guidelines for capture and QA

• Staffing– Programmer– Systems administrator– Metadata librarian

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Institutional Planning Objectives

• Level 1 : Goal of the ETD

• Level 2 : Purpose

• Level 3: Specific objectives

• Level 4: Activities

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Institutional Planning Objectives

• Level 1 : Goal of the ETD - NETD vision; Contribution to future situation;

Empowerment of target community; Identify other stakeholders

- Level 2 : Purpose- Direct contribution to overall goal

- Level 3: Specific objectives- Results to be achieved; Strategies to use

- Level 4: Activities

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Four areas of planning

• Area 1 : Setting objectives; • Area 2 : Agree on assumptions about conditions

that must exist but are outside your control; • Area 3 : Agree on criteria or indicators for

evaluating your success; and • Area 4 : Agree on where, how and from whom

you will get the information you need to evaluate.

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Planning summary

Objectives Important assumptions

Criteria/Indicators

Source of Info

Goal

Purpose

Specific Objectives

Activities Resources: People, Finance; Information, Specific Skills ; Equipment

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Activities for ETD Plan

• Policy formation• Advocacy• Project Implementation

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

ETD Policy

• E-Research policy – Consultation with University stakeholder groups

• Draft the aims of the ETD• Define content

– Metadata– Full text

• Determine supported file formats • Copyright policies

– Plagiarism– Open Access

• Responsibilities of ETD Manager & other workflow areas• Metadata standard

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Advocacy : How to get the word out?

• What need are you fulfilling?• To whom will you disseminate?• Are there others who can help you?• Where will you disseminate your project?• What media will you use to disseminate?• How will you cover the costs?

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Advocacy : How to get the word out?

• What need are you fulfilling?• To whom will you disseminate?• Are there others who can help you?• Where will you disseminate your project?• What media will you use to disseminate?• How will you cover the costs?

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Advocacy : How to get the word out?

• What need are you fulfilling?• To whom will you disseminate?• Are there others who can help you?• Where will you disseminate your project?• What media will you use to disseminate?• How will you cover the costs?

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Advocacy : How to get the word out?

• What need are you fulfilling?• To whom will you disseminate?• Are there others who can help you?• Where will you disseminate your project?• What media will you use to disseminate?• How will you cover the costs?

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Advocacy : How to get the word out?

• What need are you fulfilling?• To whom will you disseminate?• Are there others who can help you?• Where will you disseminate your project?• What media will you use to disseminate?• How will you cover the costs?

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Advocacy : How to get the word out?

• What need are you fulfilling?• To whom will you disseminate?• Are there others who can help you?• Where will you disseminate your project?

• What media will you use to disseminate?

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Advocacy : How to get the word out?

• What need are you fulfilling?• To whom will you disseminate?• Are there others who can help you?• Where will you disseminate your project?• What media will you use to disseminate?• How will you cover the costs?

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

ETD Project Activities

Paper

• Production• Submission• Preservation

ETD

• Production • Conversion• Submission• Conversion …?• Dissemination • Digital Curation

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Structural complexity

Video animations

AudioSpreadsheets

Databases

Gaming simulations Virtual reality

ETD’s

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Interactive games

Movies

Virtual realityBRADLEY, K. (2007) Electronic theses and dissertations:what, why, how and who for the ne(x)t generation… ETD Workshop , March 2007. p.18

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Production

• Authoring tools : – Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, LaTeX– Shockwave Flash, Final Cut Pro, Avid Liquid

• Supported file formats• Conversion processing

– PDF– XML

• TEI: Text Encoding Initiative

• Comparison : structural integrity

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Conversion

• Convert e-version to XML and PDF/A formats• Compare with original

– Formatting errors

• Store paper preservation copy• Send copy PDF to NETD

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Tracking electronic submission

• Submit to supervisor– Designated authoring tools

• Examination and revision• Final submission paper copies

– to Faculty Office

• Electronic version submit online– to Banner/ ITS/ Library interface– Compare with paper copy– Preserve author’s intentions

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Supported submission

• KEWL thesis authoring module• Technical model to limit manual processing• Stylesheets to convert to PDF and XML• Tag and upload final version

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

PARK, E., ZOU, Z. & McKNIGHT, D. (2007) Program: electronic library and information systems Vol 41(1). ( www.emeraldinsight.com/0033-0337.htm)

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

PARK, E., ZOU, Z. & McKNIGHT, D. (2007) Program: electronic library and information systems Vol 41(1). ( www.emeraldinsight.com/0033-0337.htm)

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Digital curation

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Create PDF

Scanned as image Scanned as PDF

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Secure PDF/ a

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Submission requirements

• Guidelines• E-Formats• Binding• Non-exclusive distribution license• Definition of “degree completion”

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Supporting a Research Repository Information InfrastructureWoute Klapwijk

Stellenbosch Symposium, 3 November 2006

Securing IP rights

Level Metadata Authors Projects Theses Publications Datasets

L0

L1

L2

L3

L4

No Access

Access

To be confirmed

View if it is owner

Permissions according to levels of access rights(extracted from the CIB Use Cases)

L0=Author, creatorL1= SupervisorL2= Research teamL3= FunderL4= Public

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Summary of Activities

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NETD meets Institutional ETD

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

ETD project team

• Digital collections librarian• ETD manager• Web developer and programmer• Digital scanning manager• Library technical systems co-ordinator

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Skills Development• NETD objective to share limited expertise

• Training programmes: – Digital conversion techniques– International standards and guidelines– Metadata capture – Web publishing – Intellectual property management– Project management

• Distributed workflow in remote capture sites

• Guidelines, manuals, standards

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Skills requirements

• Creation and use of PDF and PDF/A for preserving digital theses and dissertations.

• PDF supports for XML for ensuring reliable presentation of documents

• Different XML languages and formatting tools• TEI to embed content in XML structure • How to create personalized documents using

XML and SVG (scalable vector graphics) for presentation within the PDF format …./

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

More skills…

• Security features and universal interoperability that have earned ISO endorsement of PDF as an open standard for electronic documentation.

• PDF conversion of Web pages and other electronic content to digital versions that have a small footprint yet retain the look of the original.

• How to use PDF as an “electronic envelope” for storing other file formats within a PDF container.

• PDF/XML to embed XML data in PDF for reliable archiving, sharing, viewing.

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

Resources

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

NDLTD encourages Standards

• Documents, – PDF, XML, SGML, HTML,– LaTex, multimedia…

• Metadata: MARC, DC– ETDMS (TheMs)

• Databases: workflow, citations• Protocols: federated search, Z39.50, OAI

NRF National Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project5 November 2007

                                          

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