Lund University Libraries, Sweden Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden E-theses Breakout Session.

Lund University Libraries, Sweden

Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden

E-thesesBreakout Session

OA-Forum WS, Bath, UK, 2003-09-04

Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden

Overview

• Suggested topics• Activities in Lund University

Libraries– Scripta Academica Lundensis– X Files – Sweden

• Discussion our selected topics

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Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden

Topic 1. Documents

• Creating, obtaining and structuring documents for metadata extraction - experiences and challenges

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Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden

Topic 2. Metadata interoperability

• Metadata for theses – dealing with the needs for national and/or international interoperability

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Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden

Topic 3. Metadata for everything

• Metadata for theses - assuring useful local metadata for searching and browsing, for preservation, administration, technical purposes etc

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Topic 4. Copyright

• Copyright issues for theses – monographies simple, compared to the dissertations a ”comprehensive summary” and included papers from different publishers

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Topic 5. Preservation

• What responsibilities do we take concerning preservation? Can we (libraries?) live up to that role?

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Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden

Topic 6. Convincing decision makers

• Convincing faculties, principals and other key persons

• Convincing authors regarding publishing• Libraries are convinced already?

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Two examples from Lund university/Sweden

Fulltext Doc.type OAIScripta 1996-2003

Yes/no Disser-tations

No

Scripta 2003/2004

Yes Disser-tations

Data provider

Arkiv Ex(”X-Files”)

Yes Diploma work

Service provider

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Dissertations at Lund University

Some facts:

• Dissertations from Lund university available on the web since 1996 (circa 2,800 dissertations)

• A (Swedish?) dissertation may be a traditional monograph, but more often than not, a dissertation is a composite document. In this case it consists of an abstract, a summary which in itself is a sizeable document, and a number of articles

• The print version is the original

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Scripta Academica Lundensis 1996-2003

Dissertations very early on the web:

• Scripta Academica Lundensis http://www.lub.lu.se/dissdb/

• 2,800 dissertations described by their authors

• Some fulltexts (circa 70 PDF:s)

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Scripta Academica Lundensis 1996-2003

• Homemade metadata - no strategy for interoperability - OAI was not an option in 1996

• Local interoperability with the library catalogue etc?

• Keeping the metadata simple enough for doctoral students to create

• Classificaton? Use of keywords, simple browsing on faculties possible

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Scripta Academica Lundensis 1996-2003

• ”Preservation”: keeping files on CD & local server – all very manual from start to end

• Copyright: Each individual author gets permission from publishers, and then sign agreements with the libraries regarding fulltext publishing on the web

• Standard agreements created, for authors to sign and send to publisher

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Scripta Academica LundensisImprovements 2003/2004

• New improved service (soon)!

• Metadata/interoperability: XML DTD for dissertation metadata at Lund university [1]

• Expressing metadata in various ways; such as different MARC and Dublin Core formats

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Scripta Academica LundensisImprovements 2003/2004

• Workspace for authors with upload facility to archiving and publishing area

• A calendar of disputation events

• Cross-references for included papers, links to e.g. PubMed, local journal databases etc

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Arkiv Ex – Sverige (”X-Files”)Master/bachelor theses

• URL: http://www.lub.lu.se/lucep/activities/oai-etc/

• Collaborative effort by five Swedish universities

• OAI-service provider for diploma work

• Relevance for the impact of OAI dissemination in Sweden (Swedish universities), raising awareness and providing help

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Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden

Arkiv Ex – Sverige (”X-Files”)Master/bachelor theses

• Common national metadata model; LCD Dublin Core

• OAI-set structure for describing subjects

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Arkiv Ex – Sverige (”X-Files”)Master/bachelor theses

• Allows for local repositories to have extravaganza metadata, but kept very simple at the national point

• Local services provide data for X-Files Sweden

• Next phase of project Oct 2003-2055 - interoperability and preservation guidelines workpackages for scientific publications

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Discussion1. Documents - Creating, obtaining and structuring documents for

metadata extraction - experiences and challenges. Differences in useability: SGML, XML – HTML, PDF

2. Metadata interoperability - Metadata for theses – dealing with the needs for national and/or international interoperability. Classification, Searching and browsing

3. Metadata for everything - Metadata for theses - assuring useful local metadata for searching and browsing, for preservation, administration, technical purposes etc

4. Copyright - Copyright issues for theses – monographies simple, compared to the dissertations a ”comprehensive summary” and included papers from different publishers

5. Preservation - What responsibilities do we take concerning preservation? Can we (libraries?) live up to that role?

6. Convincing faculties, principals and other key persons; Convincing authors regarding publishing; libraries are convinced already?

OA-Forum WS, Bath, UK, 2003-09-04

Jessica Lindholm, Lund University Libraries, Sweden

Contact

Lund university libraries, Sweden:

http://www.lub.lu.se/

Jessica Lindholm:

http://www.lub.lu.se/~jessica/