1. » BARRIER TO THRIVING PLAGIARISM «
5th INTERNATIONAL PLAGIARISM CONFERENCE
» BARRIER TO THRIVING PLAGIARISM «
Július KRAVJAR  
NEWCASTLE,

2. TOUCH THE FUTURE
I touch the future. I teach.
Sharon Christa McAuliffe

3. YOU WILL KNOW THEM ...

4. AGENDA Background Pillars The Uniqueness Two Years After
Further Possibilities

5. BACKGROUND

6. BACKGROUND
Plagiarism - time walking phenomenon
past future
presence

7. BACKGROUND Low copyright and IPR awareness
HEI / students / internet penetration
public
state
private
private foreign 4
BACKGROUND

8. The lack of measures, procedures, standards, guidelines, regulations, policies and tools used in practice to fight plagiarism at HEI
Direct experience with cheating students
Recurring discussion concerning the collection of T&D in an electronic form and the plagiarism matters
BACKGROUND

9. The Slovak Rector’s Conference
BACKGROUND
The Slovak Rector’s Conference
Sep 2006
Measures to Reduce the Ethical Violations ...
Code of Ethics for University Employees
Feb 2008
EduMin was asked to coordinate the acquisition of the plagiarism detection system (PDS) for HEI

10. BACKGROUND EduMin decision 2008
Two birds with one stone: nationwide solution
for collection and processing of bachelor’s, master’s, dissertation & habilitation theses produced at HEI
for originality control

11. BACKGROUND EduMin decision 2008
Launch date: the academic year 2009/2010; obligatory for the Slovak HEI
No fee for this service: system acquisition costs + operating costs are paid by the EduMin

12. PILLARS

13. PILLARS The Higher Education Act The Methodological Guidelines
The intra-university directives based on the Methodological Guidelines
The T&D collection methodology on a national level

14. PILLARS
Appropriate staff, HW and SW infrastructure at HEI, at CVTI SR, at the supplier
Advanced technologies + very well
known and time-proven
3H technology

15. 3H technology
PILLARS

16. PILLARS
Cooperating systems of different kind and origin: AIS, LRTD, CRTD, PDS
Last but not least: EduMin support

17. Before the defence of the thesis, the university forwards the thesis in the electronic form to the central repository
The thesis undergoes the originality check
The thesis and the relevant metadata are kept in the central repository for a period of 70 years from the date of registration
PILLARS

18. THE UNIQUENESS

19. THE UNIQUENESS
CRTD + PDS is obligatory for all universities operating under the Slovak legal order (35 of 39)
To date, we have no information about a similar model in real operation

20. THE UNIQUENESS
The closest follower: CZ - 74 HEI; the theses of 46% HEI are in the only repository that undergo the originality check by the only PDS
Next follower: PL HEI; the theses of 14% HEI are in the only repository; 33% HEI are using PDS

21. THE UNIQUENESS
The implementation of the PDS and the CRTD on a national level into everyday practice is very likely a unique solution in Europe and perhaps in the world

22. TWO YEARS AFTER

23. TWO YEARS AFTER Creation of the national theses repository
Building a barrier to thriving plagiarism, breakthrough in the fight against plagiarism in our country
Copyright & IPR protection
The quality of theses by their originality check

24. TWO YEARS AFTER
The existence of a real tool for copyright protection & plagiarism inhibition had and has a preventive effect
The work of students with literature, internet, and quotes
Boths systems became the everyday standard

25. TWO YEARS AFTER The room for improvement:
The upbringing and education of the young generation
The elimination of gaps in the educational process, in legislation, in regulations and policies

26. TWO YEARS AFTER
Implementation success: the result of well prepared personal, legislative, organizational, financial and technical environments
Academic year 2010/  000
The end of May

27. TWO YEARS AFTER

28. TWO YEARS AFTER All T&D SK 92,8% EN, CZ, HU 2,0%- DE 1,0%-
Dissertations
SK ,2%
EN ,4%
DE ,7%

29. TWO YEARS AFTER Response time (max) 48 hours
Daily max reached theses
15-18 k of theses daily max (configuration with one plagiarism detection server)
450 k of theses monthly

30. TWO YEARS AFTER T&D occupy 436 GB of disk space
PDS occupies 3 TB of disk space
A group of 4-5 people takes care of the system operation as a part of their full-time duties

31. RELATED PROJECTS
CRTD + PDS are running now in the Data Centre for R&D (DC R&D)
National projects
DC R&D - The infrastructure for Research and Development
NITT SK - National infrastructure for supporting technology transfer in Slovakia

32. THE SUPPLIER
SVOP , spol. s r. o. (Ltd.)
The winner of the intl. competition with its new algorithm - PAN 2011 Lab Uncovering Plagiarism, Autorship, and Social Software Misuse; Amsterdam
This algorithm was best performing in all five indicators

33. ALGORITHM What to pick up?
In the competition corpus there was no SK text; the texts were in EN, DE, ES
Algorithm reveals „cross languages“ plagiarism too
Valuable achievement

34. CRTD & PDS PLAGIARISM DETECTION SYSTEM COMPARATIVE CORPUS
PUBLIC ACCESS
CRTD
METADATA
E-SOURCES
LRTD HEI1
LRTD HEI2
LRTD HEIn
...
STUDENTS / AUTHORS

35. FURTHER POSSIBILITIES

36. FURTHER POSSIBILITIES
Documents of various kinds can be stored in CR and could be processed by PDS
The scientific community docs
Project /grant proposals
Other kinds of written student work
Conference, seminar papers
Specialised outputs from CRTD could be the subject of interest for linguistics

37. THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present.
B. Keane

38. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION Július KRAVJAR julius.kravjar@cvtisr.sk

39. ADDITIONAL READING
Web site of Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (mainly in Slovak)
Information brochure of Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (in English)