Treffer: TEF: Metadata for French dissertations

Since 2000, universities and research institutions have been encouraged to promote and preserve scientific and technical productions by disseminating digital theses and dissertations. This national program implies that new practices and new tools impacting thesis identification are going to be established at different levels (administrative circuit, theses production mode, theses submission methods, document processing chain, dissemination platforms, digital preservation systems...).It is important to describe theses and dissertations using metadata in Internet shared formats to gain information visibility. TEF (Thèses Électroniques Françaises) standard objective is to permit quality metadata production, exchange and dissemination for French digital theses and dissertations.TEF defines a metadata set for French digital theses. It proposes two standardization levels: a metadata set and an XML schema (exchange format and validation tool). TEF will be composed of descriptive metadata (bibliographical data) and administrative metadata (administrative circuit, rights and preservation data). The XML schema explicitly defines valid XML documents structure. TEF standard has to facilitate metadata exchange at local level (universities) and at national level (SUDOC, CINES). At local level, it will manage theses production and validation, metadata production and full text access. The descriptive metadata set derives from Dublin Core standard, which guarantees a good interoperability with different kinds of documents or different dissemination environments (cf. OAI-OMH protocol). It is also compatible with NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) Dublin Core application profile, named ETD-MS (Interoperability Metadata Standard for Electronic Theses and Dissertations).