BDTD The Brazilian National ETD Project

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ETD 2005
BDTD The Brazilian National ETD Project
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ETD 2005
Ana Pavani Sueli Maffia PUC-Rio
IBICT Rio de Janeiro Brasília Brazil
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BDTD Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações
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• 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 Govt and the third to the Govt 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)

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• IBICT Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em
  Ciência e Tecnologia
• Belongs to the Ministry of Science Technology
• Is the legal deposit of TD of Brazilians who go
  abroad for graduate work funded by federal
  agencies
• Hosts the database of referential records of
  Brazilian TDs (over 140 K)

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• In January 2001 IBICT took the leadership to
  start a national project funded by the Ministry
  of Science Technology
• Motivation increase presence of Brazils
  scholarly publication on the Internet
• Goal build na integrated digital library of
  ETDs

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• 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

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• Objectives
• Develop a system architecture compatible with
  Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
• Integrate national and international ETD
  initiatives

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• Other founding institutions
• The 3 universities with ETD projects
• BIREME (PAHOs WHOs library for Latin America
  and the Caribbean)
• Federal agencies related to higher education

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• 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)

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• 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!!)

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• 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

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• 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

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• Problems, solutions challenges
• Existence of MARC records (for traditional TDs)
  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

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• 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 TDs 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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 Steves presentation early in
  the morning) refer to citations (will be
  addressed when I get back to Brazil)

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• 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

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BDTD Current status
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BDTD member institutions numbers of ETDs Sep
27, 2005
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BDTD member institutions Brazilian geography
Sep 27, 2005
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Union catalog BDTD records
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Thank you! Muito obrigada! Slide 21 Thank
you, Sílvia Southwick!!