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ETD: Metadata Standards
Hussein [email protected]
University of Cape TownDepartment of Computer Science
Digital Libraries Laboratory
September 2012
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What is Metadata
Auxiliary information on theses. Usually a set of fields, represented in XML. title, description, abstract, date, rights,
subject, etc. Allows some basic structures and
optional/multiple fields.
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Sample Metadata Record 1/2<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
<dc:title>Creating Green Chemistry: Discursive Strategies of a Scientific Movement</dc:title>
<dc:creator>Roberts, Jody Alan</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Science and Technology Studies</dc:subject>
<dc:description>In this dissertation, I examine the evolution of the green chemistry movement from its inception ...</dc:description>
<dc:contributor>Timothy W. Luke</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Joseph C. Pitt</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>Richard M. Burian</dc:contributor>
<dc:publisher>VT</dc:publisher>
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Sample Metadata Record 2/2<dc:date>2006-06-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>text</dc:type>
<dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
<dc:identifier>http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042006-093037/</dc:identifier>
<dc:source>http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042006-093037/</dc:source>
<dc:language>en</dc:language>
<dc:rights>restricted</dc:rights>
<dc:rights>I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the ...</dc:rights>
</oai_dc:dc>
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Why Standards?
Quality Control Aggregation Error Detection Elaboration on Fields Controlled Vocabularies
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Metadata Standards for ETDs
Dublin Core simple, 15 elements, DSpace
MARC21 complex, anything describable, library system
ETDMS Dublin Core + thesis fields Defines crosswalk among all 3 formats!
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ETDMS
ETD-MS v1.1: an Interoperability Metadata Standard for Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/etd-ms-v1.1.html/
Defined by formal XML Schema Provides guidance on DC and MARC as well!
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dc.title
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dc.creator
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dc.subject
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dc.description
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dc.publisher
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dc.contributor
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dc.date
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dc.type
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dc.format
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dc.identifier
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dc.language
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dc.coverage
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dc.rights
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thesis.degree
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NDLTD Union Catalog Project
Collect metadata from around the world Disseminate to service providers
VTLS, Scirus, etc. Based on OAI-PMH, using DC+ETDMS Currently based at University of Cape Town
1.98M records! New records harvested every 24 hours.
http://union.ndltd.org/portal/
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To join Union Catalog
Create/configure/enable OAI-PMH interface Ensure support for DC/ETDMS/... Send OAI-PMH baseURL to Union Catalog
maintainer (me? see NDLTD website)
Open Access philosophy Not limited to NDLTD members Anyone can contribute data Anyone can contribute services
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