Towards Establishing an ETD for Egyptian Universities
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چکیده
Many universities and libraries throughout the world are now making digitized versions of traditional (print) dissertations available online. The Ain Shams University Information Network, ASUNET, is the repository of the scientific theses published by the Egyptian universities since 1992 with more than one hundred fifty thousand, bilingual, Arabic and English documents and more than ten thousand new deliveries per year. The transformation of this huge theses library into an electronic theses and dissertation database (ETD) is an important and big challenge. This paper gives a survey on similar theses libraries world-wide, modern search and repository technologies, problems encountered, and accessibility issues. This is followed by describing the current situation of the ASUNET effort and ways to cooperate with other local projects in order to achive best results. A proposal for the construction of a modern theses library is finally presented. Index Terms — ETD, meta-data, catalog, indexing, subject vocabularies, ontology, conceptualization, ASUNET Library, Science Grid, Union Databases.
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