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http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/draft-07-09-2000.html

Current version

http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata/current.html

Editors

Anthony Atkins, Virginia Tech

Dr. Edward Fox, Virginia Tech

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Introduction

This document defines a standard set of metadata elements used to describe an electronic thesis or dissertation.

Institutions dealing with electronic theses and dissertations have all developed their own standards or adapted existing metadata standards. These metadata standards all attempt to describe the author, the work, and the context in which the work was produced in a way that will be useful to the researcher as well as the librarians and/or technical staff maintaining the work in its electronic form.

This document is not a replacement for the metadata schemes developed for a particular university or environment. Rather, this document should be used as a guideline to develop a faithful cross-walk between local metadata standards and a single standard used by the international community.

This document is based primarly on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and the proposed set of qualifiers put forward by the DC Date Working Group. Like the Dublin Core, the standard proposed by this document does not require that these metadata elements be implemented in any particular encoding scheme.

This document is also a distillation of the discussions which took place at the workshop "DTDs and the usage of new XML-technologies for electronic theses and dissertations" held in May of 2000 at Humboldt University in Berlin. More information regarding this workshop can be found at http://dochost.rz.hu-berlin.de/epdiss/dtd-workshop/.

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Elements

Element	Description
dc.title	title of the thesis or dissertation in source language
dc.title.alternative	translated title of the thesis or dissertation
dc.creator	Author(s) of the work
dc.creator.family	Family name of the author.
dc.creator.given	Given name of the author.
dc.creator.bday	The author's birthday. Used to distinguish between authors with the same name.
dc.creator.orgname	The department(s) university(ies) the author is associated with. This is typically the department and university granting the degree associated with the work.
dc.creator.email	Email address most appropriate for contacting the author
dc.creator.street	Street or equivalent portion of the author's postal address
dc.creator.locality	Locality (city, town, etc.) portion of the author's postal address
dc.creator.region	Region (state, province, etc.) portion of the author's postal address
dc.creator.pcode	Postal code (zip code, etc.) portion of the author's postal address
dc.publisher	Institution or organization responsible for publishing the electronic thesis or dissertation
dc.publisher.orgname	Name of the organization or institution
dc.publisher.email	Email address most appropriate for contacting the organization or institution
dc.publisher.street	Street or equivalent portion of the organization or institution's postal address
dc.publisher.locality	Locality (city, town, etc.) portion of the organization or institution's postal address
dc.publisher.region	Region (state, province, etc.) portion of the organization or institution's postal address
dc.publisher.pcode	Postal code (zip code, etc.) portion of the organization or institution's postal address
dc.subject	Subject(s) or keyword(s) the work pertains to
dc.subject.classification	Description of the vocabulary or scheme used to determine the subject(s)
dc.description	Abstract of the thesis or dissertation
dc.description.notes	Additional information regarding the thesis or dissertation. Example: acceptance note of the department
dc.contributor	Person(s) other than the author who contributed to the creation or approval of the work. Typical use would be for advisors or committee members.
dc.contributor.role	Role the person played in the creation or approval of the work.
dc.contributor.family	Family name of the contributor.
dc.contributor.given	Given name of the contributor.
dc.contributor.title	Title (Dr., Dean, etc.) of the contributor.
dc.contributor.orgname	Typically the department and university the contributor is associated with. May also contain the organization the contributor is associated with if the contributor is not associated with a university.
dc.contributor.email	Email address most appropriately used to contact the contributor.
dc.contributor.street	Street or equivalent portion of the contributor's postal address
dc.contributor.locality	Locality (city, town, etc.) portion of the contributor's postal address
dc.contributor.region	Region (state, province, etc.) portion of the contributor's postal address
dc.contributor.pcode	Postal code (zip code, etc.) portion of the contributor's postal address
dc.date	Date most commonly associated with the work.
dc.date.created	Date the finished version of the work was created.
dc.date.valid	Date the work was considered to be "valid" by the institution granting the degree associated with the work.
dc.date.available	Date the work was made available to the public.
dc.date.issued	Date the work was added to the local electronic repository of electronic theses and dissertations.
dc.date.modified	Date the work was changed.
dc.type	Type of document. This is typically either "thesis" or "dissertation".
dc.format	Description of the electronic format in which the work is stored and/or delivered
dc.identifier	Unique identifier used to distinguish the work from any other electronic thesis or dissertation.
dc.source	Source materials or references from which the work was derived.
dc.language	Language(s) the full text of the work is written in.
dc.relation	Reference to a related work.
dc.relation.isversionof
dc.relation.hasversion
dc.relation.isreplacedby
dc.relation.replaces
dc.relation.isrequiredby
dc.relation.requires
dc.relation.ispartof
dc.relation.haspart
dc.relation.isreferencedby
dc.relation.references
dc.relation.isformatof
dc.relation.hasformat
dc.coverage	Region in space or time with which the work is concerned.
dc.rights	Copyright or availability information for this work. Typically, this describes the conditions under which the work may be distributed, reproduced, etc., how these conditions may change over time, and whom to contact regarding the copyright of the work.

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Contributors

The following individuals and groups contributed to this document:

• Dr. Edward Fox, Director, National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• Gail McMillan, Director Digital Library and Archives
• Anthony Atkins, Technical Director, Digital Library and Archives
• All participants in the workshop "DTDs and the usage of new XML-technologies for electronic theses and dissertations" held in Berlin in May of 2000:
  • �kerlund, Per, SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) Libraries, SWEDEN, Per.Akerlund@bibul.slu.se
  • Atkins, Anthony, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, University Libraries, USA, anthony.atkins@vt.edu
  • Bahne, Thorsten, Mathematics, University of Duisburg, Dissertation Online Project, GERMANY, bahne@,math.uni-duisburg.de
  • Bouletreau, Viviane; Sentiers, UniversitŽ LumiŽre, Lyon 2, FRANCE vboletr@univ-lyon2.fr
  • Coy, Wolfgang, School of Informatics, Humboldt-University Berlin, GERMANY, coy@informatik.hu-berlin.de
  • Diepold, Peter, Humboldt-University Berlin, School of Educational Science, GERMANY, diepold@educat.hu-berlin.de
  • Dobratz, Susanne; Humboldt-University Berlin, Computing Center, GERMANY dobratz@rz.hu-berlin.de
  • Fosseng, Havard; University of Oslo, Center for Information technology Services, NORWAY, havard.fosseng@usit.uio.no
  • Freire, Nuno, National Library Portugal, PORTIGAL, nuno.freire@ext.bn.pt
  • Hess, Martin; Informatik Uni Frankfurt: GERMANY hess@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
  • MŸller, Uwe; Humboldt-University Berlin, Computing Center GERMANY u.mueller@rz.hu-berlin.de
  • Potter, Phil; University of Iowa, Academic Technologies (part of Information Technology Services), USA phil-potter@uiowa.edu
  • Rahtz, Sebastian, TeX User Group, UK; sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
  • Schaffner, Paul W., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Library, USA, pfs@umich.edu
  • Schulz, Matthias; Humboldt-University Berlin, Computing Center, GERMANY matthias.schulz.1@rz.hu-berlin.de
  • Schirmbacher, Peter; Humboldt-University Berlin, Computing Center GERMANY schirmbacher@rz.hu-berlin.de
  • Sonkkila, Tuija; Helsinki University of Technology, Library, FINLAND sonkkila@cc.hut.fi
  • Steinbeck, Christof, Mack-Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Jena GERMANY, steinbeck@ice.mpg.de
  • Zimmermann, Kerstin, University of Oldenburg; Department of Physics; GERMANY; kerstin@merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.de

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