Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČR

Iva Horová Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Jan MachUniversity of Economics, Prague

National repositories of ETDs and Grey Literature

in the Czech Republic

Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČROur intention

• to introduce participating subjects• to present some important activities and results• to present two Czech projects• to mention some tasks which are solved• to comment some problems• to remember the role of ETDs Working Group• to offer metadata solution

Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČRImportant Institutions

Association of Libraries of Czech Universitieshttp://www.akvs.cz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Working Grouphttp://www.evskp.cz

The University of Economics, Praguehttp://www.stk.cz The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague http://www.amu.cz

The Masaryk University in Brnohttp://www.municz

The State Technical Library in Praguehttp://www.vse.cz

Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČRTheses.cz

• the project of 17 public universities• financially supported by Ministery of Education• created and managed by Masaryk University Brno• the idea was created by the ETDs Working Group• the National Register (NR) for collecting metadata• system also allows to submit full texts • provides the service of plagiarism detection on demand• provides Open access to metadata • access to full texts provided by links to local repositories• not all universities have been involved yet

Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČRThe National Repository for Grey Literature

• the project of the State Technical Library in Prague in cooperation with the University of Economics, Prague

• subsidized by Ministery of Education• planned for 2008 – 2011• the cooperation with theses.cz is supposed• the project should include ETDs• the output: model pilot application (the criteria are

now beeing defined)• it is necessary to solve tasks about copyright,

relations with data producers…

Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČRyou can see at the poster also

• the map which represents a model of the data transmission into theses.cz• description of Czech legislative situation• some of the survey results produced by ETDs Group• the problem of metadata describing of non-text

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Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČRAbout non-text works

• one theses consists of many parts• in one time mandatory text and also pratical work• non-text works in the role of ETD (photos, images,

audio, video…) can exist separately• special problem for metadata describing• metadata describing into one entry is not sufficient• important question at Academy of Performing Arts• extended metadata set• include the relation element qualifiers (dc.terms) • in the cooperation with the ETDs Working Group• the aim to inovate metadata standard

Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČRNext plans of the ETDs Working Group

• templates for individual formatting and editing of the ETDs• to promote the implementation of the OAI-PMH protocol• to prepare a methodology to support implementation of the

ESVKP-MS standard in local repositories• to endeavor the accessing of records of theses.cz for

other metadata aggregators including foreign ones• to monitor the development in the Czech Republic

(register of local systems, surveys on the condition and development of local repositories)

• to monitor the development in the field of long-term storage of digital data and object

Iva Horová: Současný stav eVŠKP v ČR

iva.horova@amu.cz

mach@vse.cz

Thank you for your attention