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OHSU/OGIElectronic Theses &

Dissertations Collection:Text Collection Challenges

Friday Valentine, MLS

Cataloger/Digital Resources Librarian, Oregon Health & Science University

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What are the benefits of ETDs?

• Access, Budget, and Creativity • Access Electronically • Cheaper than traditional binding &

storage• Allows creativity through use of

multimedia & web technologies

http://www.uncc.edu/gradmiss/ETD/bebefits.htm

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Project overview

• Phase One: Pilot project at OHSU’s Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science and Engineering

• 227 items in collection (and growing) • Phase Two: Enlarge collection with

OHSU’s Medical/Dental/Nursing school theses/dissertations/capstone projects

• Membership in Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and union listing/metadata harvesting to the NDLTD

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Be Prepared!• For more information on starting an ETD

project, please contact: Carol Resco, Library Director at OGI, rescoc@ohsu.edu

• Lots of preparation was done before the CDM collection was started: Administration buy-in, working with Graduate Office, copyright clearances, student submission workflow, etc.

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Customizations 1

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Customizations 2

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Customizations 3

ETD Browse Display example:

[Author] Adami, Adriana Miorelli[Title] Assessment and classification

of movements in bed using… [Thesis.Major] Electrical Engineering [Dept.] Dept. of Biomedical Engineering [Thesis.Date] August 2006

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Challenges 1

Diacritics & Special characters

• H2O becomes H[subscript 2]O

• … via an electronic or a lattice defect in a La[subscript x]Sr[subscript 1 minus x]TiO[subscript 3] or a La[subscript x]Sr[subscript 1 minus x]TiO[subscript 3+x/2] solid solution, respectively. For the acceptor (Fe, Al)-doped samples, the p to n transition is shifted to lower PO[subscript 2] as compared to the undoped SrTiO[subscript 3].

Example: Balachandran

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• There doesn't seem to be any way to make equations look good." –Carol Resco

• "Due to the highly mathematical nature of the abstract, only the first paragraph is shown."

Image courtesy of CodeProject.com

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Challenges 2

Controlled vocabulary length & searchingStopwords & searching

What’s displayed currently:OHSU. OGI SOSE. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering.

The full string:Oregon Health & Science University. Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science and Engineering. Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

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Challenges 3

OAI mapping to NDLTD

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Thank you!

http://www.ohsu.edu/library/staff/valentif/cdm2007_etd_metadata3.ppt

Friday Valentine, MLSvalentif@ohsu.eduCataloger/Digital Resources Librarian,Oregon Health & Science University