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Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Description

The Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) project focuses on thesis metadata via the Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This is a lightweight protocol for moving or sharing metadata that allows synchronization of loosely coupled databases and mandates XML Dublin Core as the default metadata format.

Goals

The goals of this project are to:

Status

So far the project team has:

Current activities include:

OAI-PMH is expected to be the major method of moving large amounts of metadata between systems. It can be useful for interoperability beyond simple metadata, and useful for repositories even without harvesting.

Next steps

Current plans for the project include:

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Research team