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A bachelor and master theses portal : specific needs and business opportunities for the DoKS repository tool
Rudi Baccarne Central Library, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
Geel, Belgiume-mail: [email protected]
ELPUB 2007, the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria, 13-15 June 2007.
Overview
o Introduction to DoKS
o Differences with academic repositories
o Business and other opportunitieso Business plano Feedback
o Demo and results
Introduction to DoKS
o Started in 2002o Funded by Flemish government (IWT-
Vlaanderen) and private industry o Portal for electronic theses of Flemish
university collegeso Development of DoKS
o Open source o Suitable for other types of contento Easy adaptable to local needso International standards
Differences with academic repositories
o Userso Content
o Applied research from bachelor and master studentso Trainee reportso Covering wide range of subjects according to college
departmentso Industrial engineering and biotechnologyo Social worko Health care and chemistryo Business studieso Technical scienceso Teacher education
o High volumeo More than 1000 theses for Katholieke hogeschool Kempen in
2007
Specific users
o Industryo Job and trainee offers (~ business plan)o Knowledge sharingo Content screeningo Electronic publishingo Software Development
o Innovation consultantso Award programso Students
o Knowledge sharingo Researcho Cv’s
o Academic staffo Export functions (library records, title and abstract lists, …)o Online access for examining boardo Employment service
o Anyoneo Interested in a particular thesis subject
From user to partner
o Formal support from industry and other interest groups
o Usage of portal has led to new partnershipso WWAOW print on demando Innovation consultantso Award programso ITo University colleges
o Extra services/projectso www.icthelpt.beo doks.khk.be/libtheseso doks.khk.be/research
Business plan
o Idea to develop recruitment tool for industry based on usage feedback
o Feasibility and economic value studied in business plano Quantitative and qualitative researcho SWOT analysis
Business plan: results
o Automatic creation of cv for each graduating student
o Cv update wizard seamlessly integrated with self-archiving wizard for theses
o Account for updating cv after graduatingo Cv search interfaceo Output to Europass cv, print and other
formats
Specific content
o Need to be clearly distinguishableo Adaptation of metadata towards ETD-MSo End user can perform searches on level of
educationo End user can place a thesis in his contexto Development ETD-MS plug-in for PKP-
harvester softwareo Extra awareness for copyright violations,
professional confidentiality and embargoes
o Long tail graph
Feedback
o Job/trainee offerso Knowledge sharingo Editors searching for articleso Embargo requests from industry partnerso Hardcopy requestso Reporting on violations of the law:
o privacyo copyrighto professional confidentiality
Feedback: findings
o Repository is strong PR-toolo Time consuming
o Dispatching questions to the appropriate department, professors, technical staff or students.
o Not all feedback can be solved
o Need for social networking toolso Users want to add comments, tags,
annotations, corrections, ….
Social networking
o Social bookmarking
o Instant messaging
Statistics
o Visitorso Downloadso Embargoes
o 89/828o Copyright agreements 2007
o > 90 %o Creative Commons 2007
o 39/828 (8/06/2007)o Print on demand 2007
o 238/828 (8/06/2007)o Cv’s
o Total: 1691o Fully available: 1022o Available without personal data: 56o Not available: 29o Availability not defined: 584o > 70 % update before end academic year
More figures
o Repositories and publicationso 7 local archives harvested by central
OAI-harvestero 3322 theses online (> 1500 ETDs from
2007 not included)
o Google AdSenseo Correlation between revenues and daily
visitors ~ graph
(Live)Demo
o ETD Portalo Central portal: www.doks.beo KHK portal: doks2.khk.be/eindwerk
o RSS functionalityo Cv module
o Cv wizardo Cv searcho DoKS CV=> XML Europass => PDF, Word, OpenOffice
o https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/instruments/cv//xmlOpen.do o DoKS Services
o Research department ~institutional repositoryo KHK-projects
Future plans
o Job vacancies
o Integrating with social software tools
o Adaptation towards Bologna declaration
Useful Links
o http://www.doks.be o http://doks.khk.be/wikio http://doks2.khk.be/eindwerko http://sourceforge.net/projects/doksproject
•Questions?
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Titles
o Long tail grapho Hardcopy loans at the library vs Downloads
Embargoes vs ETDs
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ETDs (%)
Embargoed (%)
828 Total Hardcopies801 735 736 746 750
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Paginaweergaves
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Cv-module
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