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Masaryk University
Brno, Czech Republic
www.muni.cz
Industry:
Education & Research
Employees:
3,947
Oracle Products &
Services:
Oracle Database
"This unique solution, built on
Oracle Database, has raised a
lot of interest both from the
professional community and the
general public. It has also
helped to create a public debate
on the topic of intellectual
property protection and honest
behavior of students in the
Czech Republic."­ Michal
Brandejs, Project Manager,
Masaryk University
Masaryk University Develops High Profile AntiPlagiarism
Solution
Masaryk University is the second-largest public university in the
Czech Republic and the leading higher education institution in
Moravia. It comprises nine faculties with more than 200
departments, institutes, and clinics. The university currently
serves around 40,000 students. Recognized as one of the most
important teaching and research institutions in the Czech
Republic and a highly regarded Central European university,
Masaryk plays a major role in the social and cultural life of the
South Moravia region.
Challenges
Combat the potential for students to plagiarize material for their
essays, both from online sources and from other students
Develop a solution tailored to the university's requirements and
optimized not only for English but also for the Czech and
Slovak languages, two criteria that were not met by
commercially available anti-plagiarism software
Solution
Developed anti-plagiarism solution based on Oracle Database
10g which enables the university to easily check students'
papers against existing work
Allowed for a high degree of precision to meet Masaryk
University's need to pinpoint specific sections of papers which
appear suspect
Kept license costs to a minimum by running the solution on a
high performance SGI Altix system that provides huge shared
memory connected to only one CPU socket
Enabled rapid, on-budget development by building the system
on Oracle Database 10g, rather than a proprietary database as
originally planned