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European Schools Treasury Browser

‘ETB’

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ETB’s Objectives

• IST ‘Digital Content and Cultural Heritage’ RTD

• Web educational resource for educators and learners

• Metadata infrastructure for schools in Europe

• Link high-quality educational repositories

• Encourage and support new publication

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Outcomes

• European Subject Thesaurus and Classification

• Smart data-entry system

• Metadata Creation Tool

• Dynamic Metadata network – Harvesting Web sites -PULL-– Searching repositories remotely -Z39.50-– Transfer metadata records to registry -PUSH-

• Searchable Resource Library

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Outcomes II“Soft” Elements

• Guidelines for quality management

• Uniform descriptors for schools

• Quality selection criteria

• Interoperability– Extension of Dublin Core Semantics

• Controlled Vocabulary– Integrating a Thesaurus in the metadata

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Workpackages

• Survey of Repositories

• Quality Criteria

• Multilingualism

• Technical Layer

• Evaluation & Communication

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Survey of Repositories - 50 questions

• About – General characteristics of the educational repository,

scope, content focus, size

• Practice and Use– Practical issues: technologies used, editorial

conventions, other services

• Quality Maintenance & Metadata – Quality assurance processes, use of metadata

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Research on Quality Criteria

• Research on quality assessment (WP3)– Recommendations on quality processes– Quality management scheme

• Guidelines on Harmonisation and Standardisation (WP4)– Description of sources to be included– Collaboration with Ministries of Education

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Multilingualism

• Schools Repository Thesaurus (WP5)– Multilingual Thesaurus – 5 languages– 1000 terms

• Multilingualism (WP6)– CLIR thesauri – Cross-concordance of classification schemes– Simple automatic translation tool– Guidelines for authors

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Technical Layer

• Metadata Toolkit (WP8)– Publication of metadata

• Metadata Networking Infrastructure (WP9)– PUSH and PULL

• Metadata Registry, Search, Edit Control (WP10)– Ingest, index and organise metadata records

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Communication & Evaluation

• Dissemination and Implementation (WP7)– Connect with related projects and initiatives– Encourage use of ETB tools and services– Foster adoption of conventions– Community building– Web, Brochure, eNews, Handbook

• Assessment and Evaluation (WP11)

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http://etb.eun.org

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Workshops

Workshop 1 [September 2000 ] Classification areas How to share Metadata

Seminar [November 2000 ] Quality Assurance

Workshop 2 [May 2001] Quality management, quality criteria Multilingual Concordances

Workshop 3 [February 2002 ] Thesaurus: Final version ETB: Outcomes

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About ETB

• 26 months Start: 1st February 2000• Total Funding: 1.798.768 Euros• Partners:

– Committee for European Schoolnet – Biblioteca di Documentazione Pedagogica              – Danmarks EDB Center for Forskning og      – European Commission Joint Research Centre            – Lund University           – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Fundación Universidad Empresa – FWU Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft – MAKASH   – Lambrakis Research Foundation   – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche     

– InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften          

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EuropeanTreasury Browser

ETB http://etb.eun.org etb@eun.org