Training on ETD’s in Developing Coutries (some considerations)

Training on ETD’s in Developing

Coutries

(some considerations) ETD 2003ETD 2003

Humboldt UHumboldt UBerlin May 2003Berlin May 2003

Ana PavaniAna Pavani

Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica

PUC-Rio

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Developing X Developed Nations - differences:

Quality of life Access to education Access to information

One example:

Belgium BrazilLife expectancy at birth (in yrs)

78.1 68.4

Infant mortality (for 1,000 live births) 5.3 34.7

Literacy (in % of adult population) 98 86.7

Regions in the same country - differences:

Quality of life Access to education Access to information

One example:

NE - Brazil SO - BrazilLife expectancy at birth (in yrs)

65.5 70.8

Infant mortality (for 1,000 live births) 52.6 22.8

Literacy (in % of adult population) 72.4 92.2

This means that:

Universities have different levels of library automation (1)

Infrastructure (networks, computers, etc) is quite different among institutions (1) Staff have different levels of training in ICT tools (2)

Staff have different levels of knowlegde on the use of ICT to libraries, education and culture (2)

At the same time:

The situation has been under constant evolution (in Latin America) and the conditions are improving!

Characteristics of the training program:

Must be flexible to adjust to different groups

Must be adaptive to include new topics (for

example OAI), national aspects (MTD-Br) and to address the situation that the groups have better backgrounds

Persons to be trained:

Library staff ICT team

Graduate program staff and officers

Students

Objectives of the training program:

To provide a minimum common level on information and ICT tools to start a joint project

To present the basic concepts of digital information, digital libraries, digital library processes, ETD’s, metadata, etc.

To develop the idea of team work among the different areas of the university (Thanx Joan!!)

To identify the important aspects and steps of an ETD Project

To guide the students in writing a pre- project to be taken back to their institutions and help them analyze the local situations, needs, priorities, etc.

Contents of the training program (as of today):

Information, digital information, ICT and digital libraries

Standards, metadata and the OAI-PMH

The ETD Project – processes, intellectual property, basic definitions for new T&D’s and retrospective capture

The ETD Project in the national and international environments

The ETD Pre-project – writing one to take back home

Training program in LA (Aug.2000 - May.2003):

Colombia (Aug.00) – UNESCO (3) / ISTEC (4) –

9 attendees Uruguay (Dec.00) – UNESCO (3) – 16 attendees Brazil (Apr.01) – UNESCO (3) – 24 attendees

Uruguay (Nov.01) – UNESCO (3) / ISTEC (4) – 20 attendees Panama (Nov.02) – ISTEC (3) – 20+ attendees Brazil (May.03) – UFRN (3) – 65 attendees

Training program in LA (after May.2003):

Brazil (Jun.03) – UNESCO (3) – confirmed with

60 attendees (expected)

Brazil (Jul.03) – UFMG (3) – confirmed with

60 attendees (expected)

Brazil (Jul or Aug.03) – UFRJ (3) – planned

Brazil (Aug or Sep.03) – CAPES (3) – planned

Brazil (Sep or Oct.03) – UFOP (3) – planned

Training & projects in LA (1995 – 2003):

Sessions & Projects / Year

0 0

2 2

1

4

1

2

1

2 2

4

1 2 3 4 5 6

Years

Num

ber

s

Sessions

Projects

Students (2000 – 2003):

Students / Year

25

44

25

185

1 2 3 4

Years

Num

ber

s

Observations:

Number of training sessions per year is

increasing – more interest

Number of students per session is

increasing – more interest

Profile of students is changing – knowledge of

ICT tools and interest on DL are improving

Universities are funding their sessions –

more commitment

Number of ETD projects:

1995 – 1

1999 – 2 (one has defined legal aspects but not

implemented the system & ETD’s)

2000 – 1

2001 – 2

2002 – 2

2003 – 4

U’s – Status of projects:

Univ Start Required NDLTD

PUC Minas Aug.2002 N Y

PUC-Rio Oct.1999 Aug.2002 Y

UCB May.2003 ? N

UEL May.2003 Jul.2003 Y

UFF Mar.2003 N Y

UFRGS Jun.2001 Jun.2001 N

UFSC 1995 Aug.2002 N

UnB Apr.2003 ? N

UNESP 1999 N Y

UNICAMP Nov.2001 N Very soon

UNICAP Jan.2002 N N

USP Aug.2000 Aug.2001 Y

U’s – ETD’s on servers:

Univ Online Ready to ... Total

PUC Minas 80 282 362

PUC-Rio 871 575 1446

UCB ? ? ?

UEL ? ? ?

UFF 0 350 350

UFRGS 845 0 845

UFSC 1371 0 1371

UnB ? ? ?

UNESP 0 135 135

UNICAMP 1217 600 1871

UNICAP 9 0 9

USP 775 293 1068

U’s – ETD’s on servers:

Total: 5.168

PUC Minas

1%PUC-Rio

16%

UFSC

32%UFRGS

15%

UNI CAMP

22%

UNI CAP

0%USP

14%

PUC Minas

2%PUC-Rio

17%

UFSC

26%UFRGS

16%

UNI CAMP

24%

UNI CAP

0%

USP

15%

U’s – ETD’s ready to be put online:

Total: 2.235

PUC Minas13%

PUC-Rio26%

UFF16%

UNESP6%

UNI CAMP26%

USP13%

Possible reasons for change (Brazil):

Broader access to information and ICT in general

Better infrastructure in general

Support from UNESCO & ISTEC and volunteer work in the beginning of the training activities

ETD projects became visible

Investment of MCT through IBICT to create BDTD

A lot of volunteer work (many people) to create BDTD

Support from VT/NDLTD in implementing OAI-PMH and IBICT’s kit for BDTD

BDTD

=

Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações

=

Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

=

BDTD

Created and managed by IBICT – Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

BDTD and U’s – Geography:

Conclusions (??):

Some initial support to start (UNESCO &

ISTEC)

Volunteer work (people who believe)

Collaboration (VT/NDLTD)

Gov’t policy and investment (BDTD/IBICT)

Conclusions (??):

People who are enthusiastic and want to start new projects

General motivation:

The importance of wideworld access to information

General motivation:

The importance of wideworld access to The importance of wideworld access to (scholarly)(scholarly) information information

BDTD – OAI-PMH:

Dec.2002 – first data harvest by IBICT (service provider) from data providers:

PUC-Rio: http://139.82.199.19:8200/cgi-bin/OAI.PL

USP: http://www.teses.usp.br/cgi-bin/oai2.pl

BDTD – Special characteristics:

OAI service provider to national ETD’s

OAI data provider to international union catalog (NDLTD)

MTD-Br is compliant with ETD-ms (NDLTD)

MTD-Br contains elements that address information needs of funding agencies

MTD-Br contains links to Lattes (CNPq)

Integration of T&D’s (will convert BT’s 130 K

records) and ETD’s on the same database

BDTD harvests data from OAI-compliant repositories

BDTD will receive data from non-OAI repositories

IBICT-BDTD – Current activities:

Kits were distributed (to 3 pilot institutions)

and are under examination – Apr/May.03

Evaluation of results with pilot institutions in May-June.03

Distribution of kits to other institutions after evaluation of results

Brazil & the international cenarium:

MTD-Br is compliant with ETD-ms Info that is language dependent is written in (pt & en) or (pt & en & es)

Number of ETD’s is significant in the cenarium 7-8 K / 25-30 (?) K