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Date
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Event
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01/11/02
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Project start date
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06/01/03
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Systems Developer (Richard Jones) joins the Theses Alive! project.
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15/01/03
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Software evaluation for choice of platform begins. Contenders
include the established ETD-db software from Virginia Tech, the
versatile EPrints software from the University of Southampton and
the new kid on the block; DSpace from MIT.
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26/02/03
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The TA! Team attend the EFX project workshop in Manchester.
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20/04/03
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DSpace picked for the TA! platform of choice.
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01/05/03
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New Project Officer (Theo Andrew) joins the TA! Team...
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14/05/03
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...and is immediately whisked off to the UKSG OAI seminar in London.
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20/05/03-23/05/03
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The TA! Team attend the ETD-2003 conference held this year in Berlin.
The UK is well represented by a strong Scottish contingent including
RGU and Glasgow.
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29/05/03
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The JISC IPR workshop causes a few people to break out in a sweat
when the copyright issue is addressed.
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23/06/03
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RJ and TA go to the FAIR/X4L Programme Meeting in Warwick.
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25/06/03
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Fresh from the break, Richard begins coding new shiny things for
DSpace.
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14/07/03
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Baseline survey report finished.
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30/07/03
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Richard finishes the first phase of coding and releases the
EUL-DSpace Add-On v0.1(alpha).
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28/08/03
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Richard finishes writing up the Comparative Evaluation of ETD-db and
DSpace for submission to JISC.
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03/09/03-05/09/03
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Theses Alive! team present their work so far at the OA Forum in Bath
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11/09/03
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Theses Alive! team meet with the DSpace@MIT and DSpace@Cambridge representitives
at Glasgow University Library.
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23/10/03
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Advocacy event held in Edinburgh University Library to introduce both
Theses Alive! and related project SHERPA
to Librarians and Academics of the university. (See Conference Papers).
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27/10/03
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Theo was invited to give a presentation on Electronic Theses at the
Leeds University Scholarly Publication Forum (See Conference Papers).
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28/10/03-29/10/03
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Theo attends the JISC Sustainability Planning workshop in London.
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03/11/03
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Theo and Richard introduce Theses Alive! and related project SHERPA
to the Scottish Agricultural College in an afternoon presentation.
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10/11/03
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eFair E-Theses Sub-Cluster meeting in The Robert Gordon University
Library in Aberdeed. The aim was to reach an agreement on a basic
metadata set for E-Theses in the UK.
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21/11/03
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eFail Cluster meeting at Glasgow University Library, attended by Theo
and Richard.
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11/12/03
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Version 0.2 of the EUL-DSpace Add-On is released just before Richard
goes away on his Christmas holiday.
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22/01/04
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The Theses Alive! team attend the RGU organised E-Theses Workshop
at the University of London Library, where Richard presents
the recommended core metadata set for E-Theses along with Richard
Milne from RGU.
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02/03/04
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Version 0.2.1 of the EUL-DSpace Add-On is released just before Richard
goes away to the DSpace User Group Meeting.
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10/03/04
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Richard attends the DSpace User Group Meeting in Boston, MA,
where he presents the work of Theses Alive! and the v0.2.1
release of the EUL-DSpace Add-On.
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18/03/04
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Richard and Theo attend the eFAIR cluster meeting in Bath.
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30/04/04
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Richard is invited by the DSpace developers to become a founder
member of the new DSpace Committers Group, who will form the
core of future DSpace development. The offer is gratefully
accepted.
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22/03/04
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Richard attends the EPrints UK Workshop in Oxford to give
a presentation on Technical Issues for Repository Software.
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14/05/04
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The whole Theses Alive! team attends the EPrints UK Workshop
in Edinburgh. Richard gives a slightly extended version of his
presentation from Oxford the previous month; Theo talked about
policies and workflow needed to set up EPrint repositories;
John spoke about Digital Preservation and what is being done
about it.
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27/05/04
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The Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) built from DSpace with
the EUL-DSpace Add-On provisionally goes live in a pilot
phase in time for the ETD 2004 conference.
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03/06/04-05/06/04
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Richard and Theo travel to Lexington, Kentucky for the ETD 2004
conference. Richard presents at the DSpace Round Table event and
is later asked to be involved in the formation of a DSpace
Implementation Group for the NDLTD. Theo runs a two hour poster
and demonstration session of ERA.
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16/06/04-17/06/04
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Prof Pablo Bocskowski, a researcher from MIT comes to Edinburgh
to talk to the Theses Alive! team and associated colleagues about
DSpace, the Edinburgh Research Archive, and digital library
practices in general.
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06/07/04-07/07/04
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The Theses Alive! team and a number of other representitives not
just from Edinburgh University Library but from the whole
University of Edinburgh attend the JISC Joint Programme Meeting
in Brighton. Richard and Theo perform a short demonstration
of the Edinburgh Research Archive and present a poster on
the outputs, outcomes and hoped benefits of the project.
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09/07/04
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Theo is invited by JISC Legal to write a legal briefing paper
on IPR in E-Theses.
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29/07/04
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The E-Theses sub-cluster meeting was held at the Univesity
of Edinburgh, in the Medical School. Much discussion centred
around the JISC Legal paper to be written by Theo.
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26/08/04
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Tapir 0.3, to provide E-Theses functionality to DSpace 1.2
is released.
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