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Using a Content Management System as a front-end to a Digital Library System Improving Usability and Customisation Stefano Rivera Supervisor: Hussein Suleman Department of Computer Science, UCT 20 August 2009 Stefano Rivera CMS front-end

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Using a Content Management System as a front-end to a Digital Library System

Improving Usability and Customisation Stefano Rivera

Supervisor: Hussein Suleman

Department of Computer Science, UCT

20 August 2009

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The State of Digital Library Systems

◮ Institutional Repositories are powered by

Digital Library Systems

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The State of Digital Library Systems

◮ Institutional Repositories are powered by

Digital Library Systems

◮ Open Source systems

◮ Mostly Research ◮ Eprints, DSpace, Fedora, etc. Stefano Rivera CMS front-end for DLS

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The State of Digital Library Systems

◮ Institutional Repositories are powered by

Digital Library Systems

◮ Open Source systems

◮ Mostly Research ◮ Eprints, DSpace, Fedora, etc.

◮ Commercial

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User Desires

◮ Easy deployment

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User Desires

◮ Easy deployment ◮ Integration with existing Website

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User Desires

◮ Easy deployment ◮ Integration with existing Website ◮ Customise Look & Feel

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Closer look at DLS

Digital Library Curated Objects

Manage API Search API Access API OAI API Web UI Batch Interface

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The problem

◮ No separate Theme

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The problem

◮ No separate Theme ◮ Hard to customise

◮ Web developers can’t write XSLT Stefano Rivera CMS front-end for DLS

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The problem

◮ No separate Theme ◮ Hard to customise

◮ Web developers can’t write XSLT

◮ Website integration is non-trivial

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Content Management Systems

◮ Basis of most modern websites

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Content Management Systems

◮ Basis of most modern websites ◮ Provides for separate themes ◮ Designed for modification & redesign

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Content Management Systems

◮ Basis of most modern websites ◮ Provides for separate themes ◮ Designed for modification & redesign ◮ Known by Web designers

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CMS Modularity

Content Management System

Static Pages User Management Theme B Theme A Forum Search

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Proposed Solution

CMS

Theme (Skin) DL Module Other CMS Modules Digital Library

Manage API Search API Access API OAI API

Curated Objects Users Consumers

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Research Questions

◮ Usability Advantage?

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Research Questions

◮ Usability Advantage? ◮ Effective in the real world?

◮ Not too complex? Stefano Rivera CMS front-end for DLS

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Evaluation

◮ User Study

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Evaluation

◮ User Study ◮ Case Study

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Timeline

1. Preparation
2. Development

2.1 Evaluate Base systems 2.2 Prototypes 2.3 Complete: Ingestion, Browsing, Search

3. Experiments
4. Conclude Writeup

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Risks

◮ Scooped by Islandora

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Risks

◮ Scooped by Islandora ◮ Implementation takes too long

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Risks

◮ Scooped by Islandora ◮ Implementation takes too long ◮ CMS simply unsuitable

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