Theses Alive! John MacColl Project Director

• Theses Alive!

• John MacColl Project Director

• University of Edinburgh

Project Structure

• Origins: JISC pass-the-parcel

• Funded for 2 years (Nov 2002-Oct 2004)

• Edinburgh

• Project Director
• System Developer
• Project Officer

• + Pilot partners (Leeds, MMU, Cambridge, Nottingham, ?)

Software Development

• Product evaluation

• Virginia Tech ETD-DB
• Eprints.org
• DSpace (new release imminent!)

ETD Submission System for the UK

• Communication between postgraduate students and their supervisors

• Submission

• Defence

• Release

• Permissions (abstract only?)
• Domain restrictions
• Metadata

Metadata

• UK-ETD Document Type Definition

• Record for OPAC

• Record for local theses database

• British Thesis Service

• Index to Theses

Advocacy & Support

• Web site

• FAQs

• Group of pilot partners

• Dissemination to postgraduate students, academic staff and graduate school administrators

• Cluster and sub-cluster partners

• ETD-2003, Berlin

www.thesesalive.ac.uk