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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

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 • 600-800 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 Library Client Personal & Multi- 2D & 3D Virtual Mobile User interface ... Group media Viewers Reference Agents Level Spaces Interfaces Data Image Speech IR Video Interop. ... Retrieval Proc. Proc. Services Server Services Service Level Services Services Services XML, Dublin Core, DTDs, OpenGIS, etc. Abstraction levels DBMSs, File Systems, MG, etc. Data mgmt. level Digital Collections (theses, images, videos , etc.) Physical Level Digital Library Server

Design of Tales: Original Setting profs department student registrar library draft annotated draft grade thesis graduating students thesis Issues : Costs, space, availability, searchability,...

Design of Tales New Setting theses profs shared working committees space approved theses published theses open docs restricted docs

Tales Functionality: Academic Department

Tales Functionality: Academic Department

Tales Functionality: Student

Tales Functionality: Student

Tales Functionality: Advisor

Tales Functionality: Advisor

Tales Functionality: Navigation

Tales Functionality: Search

Tales Functionality: Viewing

Tales Functionality: Viewing

Related Components: Digital Annotations

Related Components: IR Server SyReX Tales VRef VU-DL-A Application Level Server Administrator IR Server English Spanish Stopwords Transformation Stemming Stemming Elimination Process level Vector Space Extended boolean LSI IR model level Model model model Access driver Access driver Access driver Access driver to Video to General to Thesis level Data Level Thesis Collection Video Collection General Collection http://www.udlap.mx/~hermes

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

http://biblio.udlap.mx/tesis