etd 2005 bdtd – the brazilian national etd project
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ETD 2005
BDTD – The Brazilian BDTD – The Brazilian National ETD ProjectNational ETD Project
ETD 2005
Ana PavaniAna Pavani Sueli Maffia Sueli Maffia
PUC-Rio IBICT
Rio de Janeiro Brasília
BrazilBrazil
BDTDBDTD
Biblioteca Digital de
Teses e Dissertações
Between 1995 and 2000 – PUC-Rio, UFSC and USP started and consolidated ETD projects:
They worked independently – no coordination and no cooperation
They belong to different organizations – the first is private, the second belongs to the Federal Gov’t and the third to the Gov’t of the State of São Paulo
They are located in the SO and SE regions of the country (most developed and responsible for the highest percentage of the GNP)
IBICT – Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia:
Belongs to the Ministry of Science & Technology
Is the legal deposit of T&D of Brazilians who go abroad for graduate work funded by federal agencies
Hosts the database of referential records of Brazilian T&Ds (over 140 K)
In January 2001 – IBICT took the leadership to start a national project funded by the Ministry of Science & Technology:
Motivation: increase presence of Brazil’s scholarly publication on the Internet
Goal: build na integrated digital library of ETDs
Objectives:
Promote local ETD-DL (universities)
Develop and distribute a toolkit and training
Develop national ETD metadata standard
Maintain compatibility with international standards and practices
Objectives:
Develop a system architecture compatible with Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
Integrate national and international ETD initiatives
Other founding institutions:
The 3 universities with ETD projects
BIREME (PAHO’s & WHO’s library for Latin America and the Caribbean)
Federal agencies related to higher education
Activities & results:
MTD-Br – national metadata standard for ETDs to
Allow a union catalog to be created Be compatible with ETD-ms Yield information on ETDs, funding, geography, areas of knowledge, etc.
TEDE – an open and free SW solution to publish ETDs (based on the VT model of student
participation)
Implementation of the OAI-PMH with the 3 original universities
Training sessions and support to institutions all over the country to start ETD projects
Co-sponsorship (with UNESCO) of an online tutorial to train teams for ETD projects – versions in Portuguese and in Spanish
TEDE # 2 – an open and free SW solution to be used by librairies (difficulties in accepting student participation!!)
Problems, solutions & challenges:
General: a national project is a real challenge in a country that has sharp differences in human development (as defined by the UNDP)
The solution to this problem is a not in the scope of the BDTD project
Problems, solutions & challenges:
Change of culture in some institutions:
Some institutions did not believe that ETDs are important Others thought they were ‘for developed countries’
Solution: intensive training program that started in 2001 – co-sponsored by IBICT, UNESCO and universities
Problems, solutions & challenges:
Existence of MARC records (for traditional T&Ds) and metadata records (for ETDs)
1st solution: use one database for both – did not work due to the difference in contents of the records
2nd solution: keep to separate databases and allow federated search
Problems, solutions & challenges:
Quality of metadata records when originated in OPACS – no titles, keywords and abstracts in foreign languages; no uniform assignment of fields to T&Ds specific info
Solution: technical support is given to institutions that want to implement MTD-Br in addition to traditional MARC records; institutions that do comply to MTD-Br will not participate in the project
Problems, solutions & challenges:
Some OPACs (local products) do not have OAI-PMH dataprovider functions
Solution: technical support is given to institutions that want to implement TEDE /TEDE #2 in addition to their OPACs
Problems, solutions & challenges:
Lack of motivation to keep the ETD projects running after a few months
Solution: work with the highest institutional level possible to assure that the ETD project is institutional
Problems, solutions & challenges:
Lack of motivation of faculty to e-publishing of documents
Solution: offer access statistics to show how visible works are – this has been very successful in PUC-Rio
Solution # 2 (after Steve’s presentation early in the morning): refer to citations (will be addressed when I get back to Brazil)
Problems, solutions & challenges:
Institutions that do not require ETDs
Solution: work with funding agencies to modify contracts to require ETDs as a condition to give scholarships
BDTDBDTD
Current status
ETD ETD metadatametadatarepositoryrepository
Other Harvesters
Other Harvesters
MTD-BrMTD-BrOAI-PMHOAI-PMHMTD-BrMTD-BrOAI-PMHOAI-PMH
Data ProvidersData Providers
Etd-msEtd-msDCDCEtd-msEtd-msDCDC
HarvesterHarvesterIBICT
BDTD member institutions & BDTD member institutions & numbers of ETDs – Sep 27, 2005numbers of ETDs – Sep 27, 2005
BDTD member institutions & BDTD member institutions & Brazilian geography – Sep 27, 2005Brazilian geography – Sep 27, 2005
Union catalog – BDTD recordsUnion catalog – BDTD records
Thank you!Thank you!
Muito obrigada!Muito obrigada!
Slide 21: Thank you, Sílvia Southwick!!