Training on ETD’s in Developing Coutries (some considerations) ETD 2003 ETD 2003 Humboldt U Humboldt U Berlin May Berlin May 2003 2003
Jan 22, 2016
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