Dissertation Online in Germany Status Report

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• Dissertation Online in Germany - Status Report
• at meeting of steering committee
• 22.03.2001 Pasadena
• Susanne Dobratz
• dobratz_at_rz.hu-berlin.de

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Dissertation Online
(04/1998 - 10/2000) German Research Association
(DFG)
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DissOnline.de Initiative

• Funding by DFG ended by 10/2000
• Initiative was opened to other parties
• universities, libraries
• publishers
• authors
• individual institutions
• Bureau for coordination German National Library
  (DDB)
• organisation of further developments and
  workshops
• hosting of the dissonline.de information portal
• communication with participants
• hotline, listserv, ...
• http//www.ddb.de

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Future of DissOnline.de

• Group Electronic Publishing within DINI
• http//www.dini.de
• Several new projects
• MathDiss
• part of MathNet (Prof. Törner, Duisburg)
• http//www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/mathdiss/
• ProPrint
• Humboldt-Univ. Berlin, Library Göttingen
• http//dissertationen.hu-berlin.de/proprint
• Open Archives Distributed services for
  physicists and graduate students (OAD)
• Prof. Hilf University Oldenburg
• (http//ins.uni-oldenburg.de/projects/OAD/

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Future of DissOnline.de

• Guidelines for potential participants
• free access to metadata, availability of full
  text (free or charged)
• usage of standards and document formats advised
  by DissOnline.de
• DissOnline/ NDLTD Dublin Core metadata set
• usage of methods to secure integrity and
  authenticity of documents
• usage of URN systems
• agree for long term archiving at the German
  National Library

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Implementing OAI at German Universities

• DINI (http//www.dini.org)
• German Initiative for Networked Information
• carries out guidance for implementations all over
  Germany
• develop a strategy to cover German universities
  (libraries with document servers)
• Aim
• Serving a distributed archive network
• Setting up a contact point for OAI in Germany

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Open Archives Initiative in Germany

• Universities document servers
• small number of documents (up to 500)
• document formats PDF, HTML, SGML, (PS)
• most use HARVEST software for retrieval
• supported by DINI
• plans workshops to spread the idea
• develop a policy for OAI in Germany (2 are
  planned in June Oldenburg, Stuttgart)
• help libraries open their resources (digital
  documents)
• possiblitity to connect library archives with
  NDLTD

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Why OAI?

• DissOnline.de Retrieval interface TheO
• http//www.iwi-iuk.org/dienste/TheO/
• using Dublin Core Set for Theses and Diss.

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Open Archives Initiative in Germany

• Humboldt-University Berlin HUBerlin
• database approach (sybase) with php4 script
• http//dochost.rz.hu-berlin.de/oai
• University of Oldenburg (Group of Prof. Hilf)
• Harvest compatibility to OAI protocol
• uses php4
• Library of Oldenburg University
• uses mysql php4

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OAI _Identify
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OAI_ListRecords / Resumption Token
Using Virginia Tech Repository Explorer at
http//purl.org/net/oai_explorer