1. Electronic Theses: The Next Stage Metadata for ETDs Richard Milne The Robert Gordon University 27 th September 2004

2. The Importance of Quality Metadata Resource description & discovery Within repository Search engines eg. Academic metadata harvesters, eg. NDLTD Union Catalog for Theses OAIster for academic resources

3. Metadata for ETDs Categories of metadata Information about the creator Author, institution, etc Information about the content Title, abstract, subjects, etc Information about the resource Format, size, identifier

4. Recommended UK ETD Metadata Set Core set of Dublin Core descriptors Allow for institutions to use additional descriptors To fit ETD collections within larger research repositories

5. Consultation/Collaboration Theses Alive! Project DAEDALUS Project British Library ePrints UK Project A Future for UK Theses seminar

6. Implementation Theses Alive! TAPIR submission system for Dspace Set available at : www.rgu.ac.uk/library/guidelines/metadata.html

7. Thanks for listening! Comments to : Richard Milne r.milne@rgu.ac.uk