» BARRIER TO THRIVING PLAGIARISM « 5th INTERNATIONAL PLAGIARISM CONFERENCE » BARRIER TO THRIVING PLAGIARISM « Július KRAVJAR   NEWCASTLE, 17.-18.6.2012

TOUCH THE FUTURE I touch the future. I teach. Sharon Christa McAuliffe

YOU WILL KNOW THEM ...

AGENDA Background Pillars The Uniqueness Two Years After Further Possibilities

BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND Plagiarism - time walking phenomenon past future presence

BACKGROUND Low copyright and IPR awareness HEI / students / internet penetration public 20 state 3 private 12 private foreign 4 2011 39 250 79.2 1989 13 63 BACKGROUND

The lack of measures, procedures, standards, guidelines, regulations, policies and tools used in practice to fight plagiarism at HEI Direct experience with cheating students Recurring discussion concerning the collection of T&D in an electronic form and the plagiarism matters BACKGROUND

The Slovak Rector’s Conference BACKGROUND The Slovak Rector’s Conference Sep 2006 Measures to Reduce the Ethical Violations ... Code of Ethics for University Employees Feb 2008 EduMin was asked to coordinate the acquisition of the plagiarism detection system (PDS) for HEI

BACKGROUND EduMin decision 2008 Two birds with one stone: nationwide solution for collection and processing of bachelor’s, master’s, dissertation & habilitation theses produced at HEI for originality control

BACKGROUND EduMin decision 2008 Launch date: the academic year 2009/2010; obligatory for the Slovak HEI No fee for this service: system acquisition costs + operating costs are paid by the EduMin

PILLARS

PILLARS The Higher Education Act The Methodological Guidelines The intra-university directives based on the Methodological Guidelines The T&D collection methodology on a national level

PILLARS Appropriate staff, HW and SW infrastructure at HEI, at CVTI SR, at the supplier Advanced technologies + very well known and time-proven 3H technology

3H technology PILLARS

PILLARS Cooperating systems of different kind and origin: AIS, LRTD, CRTD, PDS Last but not least: EduMin support

Before the defence of the thesis, the university forwards the thesis in the electronic form to the central repository The thesis undergoes the originality check The thesis and the relevant metadata are kept in the central repository for a period of 70 years from the date of registration PILLARS

THE UNIQUENESS

THE UNIQUENESS CRTD + PDS is obligatory for all universities operating under the Slovak legal order (35 of 39) To date, we have no information about a similar model in real operation

THE UNIQUENESS The closest follower: CZ - 74 HEI; the theses of 46% HEI are in the only repository that undergo the originality check by the only PDS Next follower: PL - 458 HEI; the theses of 14% HEI are in the only repository; 33% HEI are using PDS

THE UNIQUENESS The implementation of the PDS and the CRTD on a national level into everyday practice is very likely a unique solution in Europe and perhaps in the world

TWO YEARS AFTER

TWO YEARS AFTER Creation of the national theses repository Building a barrier to thriving plagiarism, breakthrough in the fight against plagiarism in our country Copyright & IPR protection The quality of theses by their originality check

TWO YEARS AFTER The existence of a real tool for copyright protection & plagiarism inhibition had and has a preventive effect The work of students with literature, internet, and quotes Boths systems became the everyday standard

TWO YEARS AFTER The room for improvement: The upbringing and education of the young generation The elimination of gaps in the educational process, in legislation, in regulations and policies

TWO YEARS AFTER Implementation success: the result of well prepared personal, legislative, organizational, financial and technical environments Academic year 2010/2011 82 000 The end of May 2012 214 000

TWO YEARS AFTER

TWO YEARS AFTER All T&D SK 92,8% EN, CZ, HU 2,0%- DE 1,0%- Dissertations SK 91,2% EN 6,4% DE 1,7%

TWO YEARS AFTER Response time (max) 48 hours Daily max reached 4 595 theses 15-18 k of theses daily max (configuration with one plagiarism detection server) 450 k of theses monthly

TWO YEARS AFTER T&D occupy 436 GB of disk space PDS occupies 3 TB of disk space A group of 4-5 people takes care of the system operation as a part of their full-time duties

RELATED PROJECTS CRTD + PDS are running now in the Data Centre for R&D (DC R&D) National projects DC R&D - The infrastructure for Research and Development NITT SK - National infrastructure for supporting technology transfer in Slovakia

THE SUPPLIER SVOP , spol. s r. o. (Ltd.) http://svop.eu/en/Default.aspx The winner of the intl. competition with its new algorithm - PAN 2011 Lab Uncovering Plagiarism, Autorship, and Social Software Misuse; Amsterdam This algorithm was best performing in all five indicators

ALGORITHM What to pick up? In the competition corpus there was no SK text; the texts were in EN, DE, ES Algorithm reveals „cross languages“ plagiarism too Valuable achievement

CRTD & PDS PLAGIARISM DETECTION SYSTEM COMPARATIVE CORPUS PUBLIC ACCESS CRTD METADATA E-SOURCES LRTD HEI1 LRTD HEI2 LRTD HEIn ... STUDENTS / AUTHORS

FURTHER POSSIBILITIES

FURTHER POSSIBILITIES Documents of various kinds can be stored in CR and could be processed by PDS The scientific community docs Project /grant proposals Other kinds of written student work Conference, seminar papers Specialised outputs from CRTD could be the subject of interest for linguistics

THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. B. Keane

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION Július KRAVJAR julius.kravjar@cvtisr.sk julius.kravjar@gmail.com +421-2-69253-206

ADDITIONAL READING Web site of Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (mainly in Slovak) http://www.cvtisr.sk/index/go.php?id=33 Information brochure of Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (in English) http://www.cvtisr.sk/index/open_file.php?file=cvti/Brochure_SCSTI.pdf