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From European e-Theses

About GUIDE

• • • Aim:

To stimulate European doctoral ETD developments.

• • • Objectives

1. Share good practice; identify common problems and solutions, especially on making doctoral e-theses openly available and accessible .

2. Encourage compatibility where appropriate

3. Identify where limited joint activity would be beneficial, and plan and pursue this joint activity.

4. Prepare the e-theses domain to participate fully in the emerging wider interoperable network of European digital repositories, within an international context

5. Avoid unnecessary duplication of effort.

• • • Members:

The working group will be open to all. It will have a steering group of approximately ten members, whose purpose is to plan and lead activities to take forward the groups aims and objectives. Membership of the working group will be on an individual basis. The steering group will have a chair, deputy chair and secretary, these positions to be rotated at annual review points (see below)

A suggestion for the initial membership of the steering group is as follows:

· Christopher Pressler (Chair until ETD07) · Eva Műller · Gerard van Westrienen (Deputy Chair until ETD07) · Susan Copeland · Wilma Mossink · Stefan Andersson · Neil Jacobs (Secretary) · Rita Voigt · Paul Ayris · José Borbinha · Peter Schirmbacher

• • • Resource Base:

The working group has no dedicated resources except the commitment of its members and the backing (if any) of organisations / projects with which they are affiliated.

• • • Methods:

The working group will take forward its aims and objectives by use of: · A website (for external communication) · A wiki European_e-Theses (for internal communication) · Organising conferences and other events · Mailing lists (one each for steering group and working group) · Projects such as interoperability demonstrators · Maintaining an active and strategic link with the NDLTD.

• • • Audience:

The main audience for the outputs from the group is institutions – that is, those people and bodies within institutions that are seeking to make e-theses available.

• • • Key Review Points:

The working group (and steering group) will be reviewed annually to ensure that 1. its aims and objectives are still valid 2. it is still pursuing those aims and objectives effectively Positions on the steering group will be rotated at these review points, and membership of the steering group reviewed and adjusted if necessary. Planned review points are the NDLTD Symposia: ETD2007 (Sweden) and ETD2008 (United Kingdom).

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