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According to the [https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=1t35Nk8P_DyagcaktQSTv0QlnvoLlw7PAgkUlI31Q5pu_GNiDng9upgEFwtpr&hl=en&authkey=CMLa6a8J draft programme], the slot for parallel workshops are two 90-min blocks on April 1 between 1pm to 5pm, with a coffee break and poster session (together 1h) in between.  
According to the [https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=1t35Nk8P_DyagcaktQSTv0QlnvoLlw7PAgkUlI31Q5pu_GNiDng9upgEFwtpr&hl=en&authkey=CMLa6a8J draft programme], the slot for parallel workshops are two 90-min blocks on April 1 between 1pm to 5pm, with a coffee break and poster session (together 1h) in between.  


Basic idea: introductory talks by Peter Murray-Rust (Initiator of the Open Theses project at the Open Knowledge Foundation) and Mathias Klang (who put his thesis under a CC license; to be confirmed), followed by a 45min practical in which participants (both physical and online) try to collect the metadata (in a standard format, e.g. JSON) of as many PhD theses as they can manage during this time. This should give an estimate of the proportion of Open Theses in each country covered and of how many person months it would take to collect the metadata for _all_ theses published around the globe, along with ideas on the extent to which this could be automated (perhaps hold a hackathon in parallel or even before?). Moderation by Daniel Mietchen.
Basic idea: In session one, introductory talks by Peter Murray-Rust (Initiator of the Open Theses project at the Open Knowledge Foundation) and Mathias Klang (who put his thesis under a CC license; to be confirmed), followed by a demonstration of how bibliographic metadata can be gathered. Ideally, this would lead to some data that could be embedded into an electronic poster on display during the break. Session two would be a 75 min practical in which participants (both physical and online) try to collect the metadata (in a standard format, e.g. JSON) of as many PhD theses as they can manage during this time. This should give an estimate of the proportion of Open Theses in each country covered and of how many person months it would take to collect the metadata for _all_ theses published around the globe, along with ideas on the extent to which this could be automated (perhaps hold a hackathon in parallel or even before?). 15min to include these results into an update of the electronic poster and for wrap-up. Moderation by Daniel Mietchen.


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Proposal for Open Theses and workshop at EURODOC 2011

This is a proposal draft for a workshop on Open dissertation metadata, to be held on April 1, 2011 at the Eurodoc conference 2011. Please help get this draft into shape. We will finally submit to the organizing committee a permalink to the latest version of this document.

Title: Which (European) country or institution has the highest proportion of Open Theses?

Organizers

Abstract

Open Theses aims to create a bibliography of Theses across the world, based largely on the technology and practice developed in the #jiscopenbib project (see blog: http://openbiblio.net/). The project will address bibliographic metadata which includes :

  • author, title and other normal bibliographic material;
  • thesis-specific material (degree, institution, etc.);
  • Open-specific metadata (e.g. what rights does the thesis carry - explicitly or implicitly)
  • packaging/containment of supplementary material
  • format of components.


The major problem in doing this at present is that:

  • there are often no comprehensive national or international bibliographies of theses
  • where there are they are often commercial
  • even when they are not the rights are not specified.

Open Theses will address this by (a) engaging with national and institutional bodies (b) crowdsourcing, probably through graduates/graduands. The value of the OKF is that it naturally crosses national boundaries.

Open Theses has two roles/motivation for the “Open” concept:

  1. can the metadata be made Open? Bibliographic metadata must be available for re-use, editing, republication, etc. without restriction.
  2. is the content Open? Most students and most institutions don’t label their theses explicitly so we expect relatively few cases initially. We hope that this will highlight the question and alert graduate offices and archivers to its importance.

For the proposed workshop, we would like to introduce elements of (a) making something happen and (b) fun. This leads to the proposed session title and allows all countries to compete — via online participation even on a global level. At the end of the workshop we should have a collection of Open Theses metadata (some of which may point to Open content).

  • TODO

Match with the conference theme

The conference theme is "Young generation in science: new fashion ERA? - The reflections of research traditions, models and relationships in a fast changing world."

  • TODO

Timing

According to the draft programme, the slot for parallel workshops are two 90-min blocks on April 1 between 1pm to 5pm, with a coffee break and poster session (together 1h) in between.

Basic idea: In session one, introductory talks by Peter Murray-Rust (Initiator of the Open Theses project at the Open Knowledge Foundation) and Mathias Klang (who put his thesis under a CC license; to be confirmed), followed by a demonstration of how bibliographic metadata can be gathered. Ideally, this would lead to some data that could be embedded into an electronic poster on display during the break. Session two would be a 75 min practical in which participants (both physical and online) try to collect the metadata (in a standard format, e.g. JSON) of as many PhD theses as they can manage during this time. This should give an estimate of the proportion of Open Theses in each country covered and of how many person months it would take to collect the metadata for _all_ theses published around the globe, along with ideas on the extent to which this could be automated (perhaps hold a hackathon in parallel or even before?). 15min to include these results into an update of the electronic poster and for wrap-up. Moderation by Daniel Mietchen.

Intended audience

  • Early Stage Researchers and other interested parties physically present at the meeting
  • Online attendees with an interest in dissertations, bibliographical metadata, open science or European science

Finances

We have discussed the workshop with JISC UK who support the proposal. We are jointly exploring how to bring in other European partners.

  • TODO

Technical requirements

  • TODO


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