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Enhanced Accessibility of Master Theses Related to Real Estate

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Grey

Literature?

Bob MartensVienna University of Technology

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Introduction: Why Access?

Starting point and procedure

ERES Digital Library: Collectioning

Content Analysis

Demonstration

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Introduction: Why Access?

... Thesis work: either unpublished or published in non-commercial form

... Limited number of hard copies

... Often the best source of up-to-date research work

Improved access by way of electronic publishing [--> PDF-files]

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Starting point and procedure -1

ERES Education Seminar Zurich (2010)

• Visibility of master thesis work

• Expansion of existing library catalogues ?

• Further investigation announced

Enquiry among Real-Estate course sites

• Just surfing? hidden information

• Rather difficult to search and to find

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Starting point and procedure -2

Pro-active mode

• Sharing: „Online Public Access Catalogue“ (OPAC) and static links

• Extended information at the course website

Reluctant mode

• Avoiding any form of distraction

• Source for plagiarism ?!

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ERES Digital Library -1

Starting point!

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ERES Digital Library -2

As of today 13 sites

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ERES Digital Library -3

Example: Geislingen-Nürtingen

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ERES Digital Library -4

Example: Luzern

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Content Analysis -1

Checking the state of the art

Has a topic been published already ?

Prevalent themes ?

Semantic Web applications?

Grabbing approx. 1,100 (german) titles

Word stemming Tag cloud

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Content Analysis -2

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Demonstration

Online demonstration

Where do go from here?

Your hints are welcome!!