ETD: Metadata Standards

Hussein Sulemanhussein@cs.uct.ac.za

University of Cape TownDepartment of Computer Science

Digital Libraries Laboratory

September 2012

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What is Metadata

Auxiliary information on theses. Usually a set of fields, represented in XML. title, description, abstract, date, rights,

subject, etc. Allows some basic structures and

optional/multiple fields.

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Sample Metadata Record 1/2<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">

<dc:title>Creating Green Chemistry: Discursive Strategies of a Scientific Movement</dc:title>

<dc:creator>Roberts, Jody Alan</dc:creator>

<dc:subject>Science and Technology Studies</dc:subject>

<dc:description>In this dissertation, I examine the evolution of the green chemistry movement from its inception ...</dc:description>

<dc:contributor>Timothy W. Luke</dc:contributor>

<dc:contributor>Joseph C. Pitt</dc:contributor>

<dc:contributor>Richard M. Burian</dc:contributor>

<dc:publisher>VT</dc:publisher>

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Sample Metadata Record 2/2<dc:date>2006-06-09</dc:date>

<dc:type>text</dc:type>

<dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>

<dc:identifier>http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042006-093037/</dc:identifier>

<dc:source>http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042006-093037/</dc:source>

<dc:language>en</dc:language>

<dc:rights>restricted</dc:rights>

<dc:rights>I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached hereto a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the ...</dc:rights>

</oai_dc:dc>

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Why Standards?

Quality Control Aggregation Error Detection Elaboration on Fields Controlled Vocabularies

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Metadata Standards for ETDs

Dublin Core simple, 15 elements, DSpace

MARC21 complex, anything describable, library system

ETDMS Dublin Core + thesis fields Defines crosswalk among all 3 formats!

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ETDMS

ETD-MS v1.1: an Interoperability Metadata Standard for Electronic Theses and Dissertations

http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/etd-ms-v1.1.html/

Defined by formal XML Schema Provides guidance on DC and MARC as well!

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dc.title

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dc.creator

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dc.subject

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dc.description

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dc.publisher

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dc.contributor

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dc.date

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dc.type

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dc.format

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dc.identifier

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dc.language

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dc.coverage

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dc.rights

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thesis.degree

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NDLTD Union Catalog Project

Collect metadata from around the world Disseminate to service providers

VTLS, Scirus, etc. Based on OAI-PMH, using DC+ETDMS Currently based at University of Cape Town

1.98M records! New records harvested every 24 hours.

http://union.ndltd.org/portal/

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To join Union Catalog

Create/configure/enable OAI-PMH interface Ensure support for DC/ETDMS/... Send OAI-PMH baseURL to Union Catalog

maintainer (me? see NDLTD website)

Open Access philosophy Not limited to NDLTD members Anyone can contribute data Anyone can contribute services

that's all folks!

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