Gearing up for EthosNet – Electronic Thesis Online Service

It’s been a while since I looked at the EthosNet instructions on DSpace OAI Crosswalk plug-in. I’ve created a separate community within OPuS, our repository, and plan to use this for harvesting. I’ve added at least the basic metadata fields outlined so those are ready to go.
Now, I’m going out to the masses today, to the University Research Students Committee to present a paper on the topic of e-thesis, and how they’re to be collected. Initially we’ll collect them on CD/DVD but at time goes on I don’t see any reason why we couldn’t have the PhD and MPhil students submited direct to OPuS. It’s a gently, gently approach for now. We’re using much the same method as Exeter, described by Ahmed Abu-Zayed at the UKCoRR meeting last November (that long ago?!).
Which reminds me – now that I’ve found the UKCoRR website, I’m keeping it here for future reference: http://www.ukcorr.org/index.php