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Community Tales: An Infrastructure for the Collaborative Construction of Digital
Theses Repositories
Lourdes Fernandez, J. Alfredo SánchezLibraries Division
Universidad de las Américas, PueblaMéxico
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
DataRetrievalServices
SpeechProc.
Services
IRService
s
Interop. Service
s
...
Digital Library Client
VirtualReferenc
e
2D & 3DViewers
Personal &
Group Spaces
... Mobile
Agents
Digital Library Server
Service Level
User interfaceLevel
Multi-media
Interfaces
VideoServer
ImageProc.
Services
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Design of Tales:Original Setting
student registrarprofs librarydepartment
draft
annotateddraft
thesis grade graduatingstudents
thesis
Issues: Costs, space, availability, searchability,...
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Design of Tales New Setting
shared workingspace
publishedtheses
approved theses
committees
theses profs
restricted docs open 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
VRefTales
EnglishStemming
SpanishStemming
StopwordsElimination
Vector SpaceModel
Extended booleanmodel
LSImodel
Access driverto General
Access driverto Thesis
Access driverto Video
General Collection Thesis Collection Video Collection
SyReX VU-DL-A
Server Administrator
Application Level
TransformationProcess level
IR model level
Access driverlevel
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