The Repository Bridge project Sally Mcinnes, NLW

Structure Background Issues Challenges Requirements Aims

Background Interest in E-theses submission since 1994 FAIR programme 2002 Seminar in 2004 Group established in Wales

Issues with e-theses Requires a collaborative approach between stakeholders Provides greater research exposure Reduction in duplication Improved resource discovery Multiple access Space savings/costs of binding Information sharing Reduced retrieval costs

Challenges Requires technical support Differing software software Interoperability and standards Finding aid Intellectual property rights Thread of plagiarism Cultural change Publication issues Digital preservation strategy

Requirements Ensuring that the regulations permit e-theses submission Implementing procedures to enable submission Developing metadata schemas to enable resource discovery Access and security protocols Intellectual property rights Procedures for transfer to repository Long- term preservation of e-theses

Aim of Bridge project Provided a link between D-Space and Fedora Funded by JISC Successful

Repository Bridge Glen Robson

The Project JISC funded Partners NLW, UWA and UWS Aberystwyth Swansea Bangor NLWEThos

University of Wales Aberystwyth Use Qualified Dublin Core Meta data Stores Research Papers and in the future Electronic Thesis

National Library of Wales Use METS Meta data Will store: –Digitised Images –Digital Archives –TV Recordings –Websites?

EThos National Electronic Thesis Repository Uses Qualified Dublin Core Metadata Collaboration between: –British Library –7 Scottish and English Universities –NLW –And others

Metadata Dublin Core Qualified Dublin Core METS

Dublin Core – Interpretation of simulation for model based design analysis of engineered systems – – Bell, Jonathan – Thesis presents a language for functional description of systems, allowing their simulations to be interpretated in terms of the system's purpose. – University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Computer Science – – application/pdf – llgc-id:54

Qualified Dublin Core – Snooke, Neal – Bell, Jonathan – T11:19:13Z – 2005 – – Thesis presents a language for functional description of systems, allowing their simulations to be interpretated in terms of the system's purpose. – – bytes – application/pdf – en – University of Wales – Aberystwyth; Computer Science – functional description – model based reasoning – Interpretation of simulation for model based design analysis of engineered systems – – thesis – doctoral – PhD – None – – – MD5:eb5d0b9d aed5f0cd76e99cf11

METS Metadata & Encoding for Transmission Standard Package for other MD types Contains: –Descriptive Meta Data mods on digital copy relationship information to other objects in Fedora –Administrative Meta Data technical meta data premis admin data including checksums, and relationships between data streams link to MARC record in Virtua –Digital Providence List of actions that have occurred to the object List of agents who ran the software / versions of the software used –File Sec List of Data streams linking above sections to particular data streams –Structural Map First one allows display via a METS viewer type application Subsequent ones are linked to Disseminators

The Problem University of Wales Aberystwyth National Library of Wales EThos Dublin Core Qualified Dublin Core Dublin Core Qualified Dublin Core METS Dublin Core MODS

The Solution OAI-PMH –Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Common Standard

Access –Verb Identify –Repository Name –Admin »verb=ListRecordsverb=ListRecords »&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&metadataPrefix=oai_dc »&set=hdl_2160_255&set=hdl_2160_255 –Verb List: Records –Metadata prefix: oai_dc –Set: hdl_2160_255 (PhD theses)

Bridge Request »verb=ListRecords »&metadataPrefix=mets »&set=hdl_2160_255 »&until=

The Problem University of Wales Aberystwyth National Library of Wales EThos METS Dublin Core MODS Qualified Dublin Core

Questions