Training on ETD’s in
Developing Coutries
ETD 2003
(some considerations)
Humboldt U
Berlin May 2003
Ana Pavani
Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica
PUC-Rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Developing X Developed Nations -
differences:
Quality of life
Access to education
Access to information
One example:
Belgium Brazil
Life expectancy
at birth (in yrs)
78.1 68.4
Infant mortality
(for 1,000 live
births) 5.3 34.7
Literacy (in % of
adult population)
98 86.7
Regions in the same country - differences:
Quality of life
Access to education
Access to information
One example:
NE - Brazil SO - Brazil
Life expectancy
at birth (in yrs)
65.5 70.8
Infant mortality
(for 1,000 live
births) 52.6 22.8
Literacy (in % of
adult population)
72.4 92.2
This means that:
Universities have different levels of library
automation (1)
Infrastructure (networks, computers, etc) is
quite different among institutions (1)
Staff have different levels of training in
ICT tools (2)
Staff have different levels of knowlegde on
the use of ICT to libraries, education and
culture (2)
At the same time:
The situation has been under constant
evolution (in Latin America) and the conditions
are improving!
Characteristics of the training program:
Must be flexible to adjust to different
groups
Must be adaptive to include new topics (for
example OAI), national aspects (MTD-Br) and
to address the situation that the groups
have better backgrounds
Persons to be trained:
Library staff
ICT team
Graduate program staff and officers
Students
Objectives of the training program:
To provide a minimum common level on
information and ICT tools to start a joint
project
To present the basic concepts of digital
information, digital libraries, digital library
processes, ETD’s, metadata, etc.
To develop the idea of team work among
the different areas of the university
(Thanx Joan!!)
To identify the important aspects and
steps of an ETD Project
To guide the students in writing a pre-
project to be taken back to their
institutions and help them analyze the local
situations, needs, priorities, etc.
Contents of the training program (as of today):
Information, digital information, ICT and
digital libraries
Standards, metadata and the OAI-PMH
The ETD Project – processes, intellectual
property, basic definitions for new T&D’s
and retrospective capture
The ETD Project in the national and
international environments
The ETD Pre-project – writing one to take
back home
Training program in LA (Aug.2000 - May.2003):
Colombia (Aug.00) – UNESCO (3) / ISTEC (4) –
9 attendees
Uruguay (Dec.00) – UNESCO (3) – 16 attendees
Brazil (Apr.01) – UNESCO (3) – 24 attendees
Uruguay (Nov.01) – UNESCO (3) / ISTEC (4) –
20 attendees
Panama (Nov.02) – ISTEC (3) – 20+ attendees
Brazil (May.03) – UFRN (3) – 65 attendees
Training program in LA (after May.2003):
Brazil (Jun.03) – UNESCO (3) – confirmed with
60 attendees (expected)
Brazil (Jul.03) – UFMG (3) – confirmed with
60 attendees (expected)
Brazil (Jul or Aug.03) – UFRJ (3) – planned
Brazil (Aug or Sep.03) – CAPES (3) – planned
Brazil (Sep or Oct.03) – UFOP (3) – planned
Training & projects in LA (1995 – 2003):
Sessions & Projects / Year
4 4
Numbers
Sessions
2 2 2 2 2
Projects
1 1 1
0 0
1 2 3 4 5 6
Years
Students (2000 – 2003):
Students / Year
185
Numbers
44
25 25
1 2 3 4
Years
Observations:
Number of training sessions per year is
increasing – more interest
Number of students per session is
increasing – more interest
Profile of students is changing – knowledge of
ICT tools and interest on DL are improving
Universities are funding their sessions –
more commitment
Number of ETD projects:
1995 – 1
1999 – 2 (one has defined legal aspects but not
implemented the system & ETD’s)
2000 – 1
2001 – 2
2002 – 2
2003 – 4
U’s – Status of projects:
Univ Start Required NDLTD
PUC Minas Aug.2002 N Y
PUC-Rio Oct.1999 Aug.2002 Y
UCB May.2003 ? N
UEL May.2003 Jul.2003 Y
UFF Mar.2003 N Y
UFRGS Jun.2001 Jun.2001 N
UFSC 1995 Aug.2002 N
UnB Apr.2003 ? N
UNESP 1999 N Y
UNICAMP Nov.2001 N Very soon
UNICAP Jan.2002 N N
USP Aug.2000 Aug.2001 Y
U’s – ETD’s on servers:
Univ Online Ready to ... Total
PUC Minas 80 282 362
PUC-Rio 871 575 1446
UCB ? ? ?
UEL ? ? ?
UFF 0 350 350
UFRGS 845 0 845
UFSC 1371 0 1371
UnB ? ? ?
UNESP 0 135 135
UNICAMP 1217 600 1871
UNICAP 9 0 9
USP 775 293 1068
U’s – ETD’s on servers:
USPUSP PUC Minas
UNICAP PUC Minas PUC-Rio
PUC-Rio
UNICAP 15% 2%1% 17%
0% 14% 16%
0%
UNICAMP
22%
UNICAMP
24% UFSC
UFSC
26%
32%
UFRGS
UFRGS
15%
16%
Total: 5.168
U’s – ETD’s ready to be put online:
USP PUC Minas
13% 13%
UNICAMP PUC-Rio
26% 26%
UNESP UFF
6% 16%
Total: 2.235
Possible reasons for change (Brazil):
Broader access to information and ICT in
general
Better infrastructure in general
Support from UNESCO & ISTEC and
volunteer work in the beginning of the
training activities
ETD projects became visible
Investment of MCT through IBICT to
create BDTD
A lot of volunteer work (many people) to
create BDTD
Support from VT/NDLTD in implementing
OAI-PMH and IBICT’s kit for BDTD
BDTD
=
Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações
=
Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
=
BDTD
Created and managed by IBICT – Instituto
Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
BDTD and U’s – Geography:
Conclusions (??):
Some initial support to start (UNESCO &
ISTEC)
Volunteer work (people who believe)
Collaboration (VT/NDLTD)
Gov’t policy and investment (BDTD/IBICT)
Conclusions (??):
People who are enthusiastic and want to
start new projects
General motivation:
The importance of wideworld access to
information
General motivation:
The importance of wideworld access to
(scholarly) information
BDTD – OAI-PMH:
Dec.2002 – first data harvest by IBICT
(service provider) from data providers:
PUC-Rio:
http://139.82.199.19:8200/cgi-bin/OAI.PL
USP:
http://www.teses.usp.br/cgi-bin/oai2.pl
BDTD – Special characteristics:
OAI service provider to national ETD’s
OAI data provider to international union
catalog (NDLTD)
MTD-Br is compliant with ETD-ms (NDLTD)
MTD-Br contains elements that address
information needs of funding agencies
MTD-Br contains links to Lattes (CNPq)
Integration of T&D’s (will convert BT’s 130 K
records) and ETD’s on the same database
BDTD harvests data from OAI-compliant
repositories
BDTD will receive data from non-OAI
repositories
IBICT-BDTD – Current activities:
Kits were distributed (to 3 pilot institutions)
and are under examination – Apr/May.03
Evaluation of results with pilot institutions
in May-June.03
Distribution of kits to other institutions
after evaluation of results
Brazil & the international cenarium:
MTD-Br is compliant with ETD-ms
Info that is language dependent is written
in (pt & en) or (pt & en & es)
Number of ETD’s is significant in the
cenarium 7-8 K / 25-30 (?) K