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
Agenda Context: Libraries and DLs ETD setting Design issues Tales functionality Status and ongoing work
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 theses per year Library has received graduate theses Departments handle undergraduate theses
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
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... Digital Library Client Virtual Reference 2D & 3D Viewers Personal & Group Spaces... Mobile Agents Digital Library Server Service Level User interface Level Multi- media Interfaces Video Server Image Proc. Services
Design of Tales: Original Setting studentregistrar profs library department draft annotate d draft thesis grade graduating students thesis Issues: Costs, space, availability, searchability,...
Design of Tales New Setting shared working space published theses approved theses committees thesesprofs restricted docs open docs
Tales Functionality: Academic Department
Tales Functionality: Student
Tales Functionality: Advisor
Tales Functionality: Navigation
Tales Functionality: Search
Tales Functionality: Viewing
Related Components: Digital Annotations
Related Components: IR Server
Related Components: Personal Spaces
Related Components: Digital Publishing House
Federation U-DL-A / VT / ITESM / OAI
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
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