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:This workshop has several aims: '''First''', it shall provide some background on how the currently ongoing "digital revolution" affects the way PhD projects are being conducted and PhD theses are being written, reviewed, published, archived, disseminated and reused, and what the relative costs and benefits of paper and digital modes are. '''Second''', the session shall provide a practical demonstration of cross-disciplinary and international collaboration via online tools. To this end, at least one of the speakers will deliver their talk remotely, and the local audience will be able to interact with online participants, using web-hosted collaboratively editable documents. '''Third''', the session shall be integrated with the poster session taking place in between. To this end, an electronic poster shall be designed beforehand which displays the progress of the competition in real time, starting with some preliminary results and possibly continuing online beyond the duration of the session. '''Fourth''', the workshop shall have a measurable outcome, while still providing for a decent dose of fun. We think that this can be achieved by introducing an element of competition, while everyone in either audience contributes to the same goal by collecting the metadata (in a standard format, e.g. JSON) of as many PhD theses as they can manage during this time. This leads to the title of the workshop and should give an estimate of the proportion of Open Theses in each country or institution 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 proportion could be increased, or its determination automated. | :This workshop has several aims: '''First''', it shall provide some background on how the currently ongoing "digital revolution" affects the way PhD projects are being conducted and PhD theses are being written, reviewed, published, archived, disseminated and reused, and what the relative costs and benefits of paper and digital modes are. '''Second''', the session shall provide a practical demonstration of cross-disciplinary and international collaboration via online tools. To this end, at least one of the speakers will deliver their talk remotely, and the local audience will be able to interact with online participants, using web-hosted collaboratively editable documents. '''Third''', the session shall be integrated with the poster session taking place in between. To this end, an electronic poster shall be designed beforehand which displays the progress of the competition in real time, starting with some preliminary results and possibly continuing online beyond the duration of the session. '''Fourth''', the workshop shall have a measurable outcome, while still providing for a decent dose of fun. We think that this can be achieved by introducing an element of competition, while everyone in either audience contributes to the same goal by collecting the metadata (in a standard format, e.g. JSON) of as many PhD theses as they can manage during this time. This leads to the title of the workshop and should give an estimate of the proportion of Open Theses in each country or institution 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 proportion could be increased, or its determination automated. |
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Proposal for Open Theses and workshop at EURODOC 2011This is a proposal for a workshop on Open dissertation metadata, to be held on April 1, 2011 at the Eurodoc conference 2011. The conference theme is "Young generation in science: new fashion ERA? - The reflections of research traditions, models and relationships in a fast changing world." We will submit to the conference organizers the permalink to this version of the document, which shall be updated continuously as the preparation of the workshop proceeds. The short link to the most recent version is http://bit.ly/OpenThesesEurodoc2011. Title: Which (European) country or institution has the highest proportion of Open Theses?Organizers
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