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Community Tales : An Infrastructure for the Collaborative Construction of Digital Theses Repositories Lourdes Fernandez, J. Alfredo Snchez Libraries Division Universidad de las Amricas, Puebla Mxico ETD 2003, Berlin, Germany, May 2003


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Community Tales: An Infrastructure for the Collaborative Construction of Digital Theses Repositories

Lourdes Fernandez, J. Alfredo Sánchez Libraries Division Universidad de las Américas, Puebla México

ETD 2003, Berlin, Germany, May 2003

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Agenda

  • Context: Libraries and DLs
  • ETD setting
  • Design issues
  • Tales functionality
  • Status and ongoing work
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University of the Americas, Puebla (UDLA)

  • Private university in central México

(City of Cholula, State of Puebla)

  • About 8,000 students
  • 39 bachelor’s, 21 master’s, 2 PhD thesis-requiring programs
  • 600-800 theses per year
  • Library has received graduate theses
  • Departments handle undergraduate theses
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Digital Libraries Program

  • University Digital Libraries for All
  • Goals:

– To transform our libraries by creating virtual spaces for facilitating knowledge access, dissemination and generation – To build collections and services for wide user communities – To conduct R&D in DLs

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Digital Libraries Architecture for

Digital Collections (theses, images, videos, etc.)

Physical Level

DBMSs, File Systems, MG, etc.

Data mgmt. level

XML, Dublin Core, DTDs, OpenGIS, etc.

Abstraction levels Data Retrieval Services Speech Proc. Services IR Services Interop. Services

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Digital Library Client

Virtual Reference 2D & 3D Viewers Personal & Group Spaces

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Mobile Agents

Digital Library Server

Service Level User interface Level Multi- media Interfaces Video Server Image Proc. Services

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Design of Tales:

Original Setting

student registrar profs library department

draft annotated draft thesis grade graduating students thesis

Issues: Costs, space, availability, searchability,...

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Design of Tales

New Setting

shared working space published theses

approved theses

committees theses profs restricted docs

  • pen docs
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Tales Functionality: Academic Department

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Tales Functionality: Academic Department

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Tales Functionality: Student

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Tales Functionality: Student

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Tales Functionality: Advisor

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Tales Functionality: Advisor

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Tales Functionality: Navigation

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Tales Functionality: Search

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Tales Functionality: Viewing

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Tales Functionality: Viewing

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Related Components: Digital Annotations

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Related Components: IR Server

VRef Tales English Stemming Spanish Stemming Stopwords Elimination Vector Space Model Extended boolean model LSI model Access driver to General Access driver to Thesis Access driver to Video General Collection Thesis Collection Video Collection SyReX VU-DL-A Server Administrator Application Level Transformation Process level IR model level Access driver level Data Level IR Server

http://www.udlap.mx/~hermes

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Related Components: Personal Spaces

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Related Components: Digital Publishing House

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Federation U-DL-A / VT / ITESM / OAI

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Tales: Status

  • Operating since 2000 with one pilot

department

  • Graduate programs joined in 2001
  • University-wide ETD requirement

approved starting Spring 2003

  • Theses being uploaded as we speak
  • Work practices being changed
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U-DL-A: Ongoing Work

  • Migrating to XML database
  • Access from mobile devices
  • Content-based image retrieval
  • Detection of plagiarism
  • Group spaces
  • Ontological agents
  • Integration
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http://biblio.udlap.mx/tesis