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European Schools Treasury Browser
‘ETB’
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ETB’s Objectives
• IST ‘Digital Content and Cultural Heritage’ RTD
• Web educational resource for educators and learners
• Metadata infrastructure for schools in Europe
• Link high-quality educational repositories
• Encourage and support new publication
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Outcomes
• European Subject Thesaurus and Classification
• Smart data-entry system
• Metadata Creation Tool
• Dynamic Metadata network – Harvesting Web sites -PULL-– Searching repositories remotely -Z39.50-– Transfer metadata records to registry -PUSH-
• Searchable Resource Library
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Outcomes II“Soft” Elements
• Guidelines for quality management
• Uniform descriptors for schools
• Quality selection criteria
• Interoperability– Extension of Dublin Core Semantics
• Controlled Vocabulary– Integrating a Thesaurus in the metadata
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Workpackages
• Survey of Repositories
• Quality Criteria
• Multilingualism
• Technical Layer
• Evaluation & Communication
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Survey of Repositories - 50 questions
• About – General characteristics of the educational repository,
scope, content focus, size
• Practice and Use– Practical issues: technologies used, editorial
conventions, other services
• Quality Maintenance & Metadata – Quality assurance processes, use of metadata
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Research on Quality Criteria
• Research on quality assessment (WP3)– Recommendations on quality processes– Quality management scheme
• Guidelines on Harmonisation and Standardisation (WP4)– Description of sources to be included– Collaboration with Ministries of Education
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Multilingualism
• Schools Repository Thesaurus (WP5)– Multilingual Thesaurus – 5 languages– 1000 terms
• Multilingualism (WP6)– CLIR thesauri – Cross-concordance of classification schemes– Simple automatic translation tool– Guidelines for authors
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Technical Layer
• Metadata Toolkit (WP8)– Publication of metadata
• Metadata Networking Infrastructure (WP9)– PUSH and PULL
• Metadata Registry, Search, Edit Control (WP10)– Ingest, index and organise metadata records
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Communication & Evaluation
• Dissemination and Implementation (WP7)– Connect with related projects and initiatives– Encourage use of ETB tools and services– Foster adoption of conventions– Community building– Web, Brochure, eNews, Handbook
• Assessment and Evaluation (WP11)
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http://etb.eun.org
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Workshops
Workshop 1 [September 2000 ] Classification areas How to share Metadata
Seminar [November 2000 ] Quality Assurance
Workshop 2 [May 2001] Quality management, quality criteria Multilingual Concordances
Workshop 3 [February 2002 ] Thesaurus: Final version ETB: Outcomes
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About ETB
• 26 months Start: 1st February 2000• Total Funding: 1.798.768 Euros• Partners:
– Committee for European Schoolnet – Biblioteca di Documentazione Pedagogica – Danmarks EDB Center for Forskning og – European Commission Joint Research Centre – Lund University – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Fundación Universidad Empresa – FWU Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft – MAKASH – Lambrakis Research Foundation – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
– InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften
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