[okfn-discuss] Proposal for OpenThesis Project

Thu Jul 15 13:03:13 UTC 2010

Owen, this is absolutely great!

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM, O.Stephens <o.stephens at open.ac.uk> wrote:

> >
> Might be worth having a look at this recent post from the Names project
> about their Institutional URIs and recommendations from the NISO working
> group on Institutional Identifiers?
> http://namesproject.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/identifying-institutions/
>
> > * URL/URI of its repository
> > * table of contents of theses (this does not exist in many
> > repositories). It might be machine extracted if we can get
> > the whole repopsitory TOC
> > * annotation of each entry's bibliographic metatdata to
> > include Openness of each thesis.
> >
>
> The UKETD DC Application Profile uses the dc.rights to store rights
> metadata - but I guess we may need something more structured for machine
> parsability? What might be useful from the UKETD DC AP is the relatively
> well structured 'embargo' metadata. See
> http://ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk/tiki-index.php?page_ref_id=47 for more
> detail.
>
> Clearly this is UK based, and it isn't clear how many repositories have
> implemented this fully, but it is what EThOS recommends is used, and I think
> (from memory) the Embargo fields werer intended to be functional for EThOS.
>
> Owen
>

We'll certainly have the challenge of different countries, hierarchy of
institutions, disambiguation, etc. I am personally happy to go with DC-level
stuff as it can be micro-semantified later and I'd settle for an
uncontrolled text string which can be classified by machine-learning. I am
generally a fan of folksonomies with machine classification and refactoring,
rather than predefined structure unless it's in regulated use.

Although all types of bibliographic metadata is complex, I think institution
identity is much easier than author identity.

P.

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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