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Mikeal, Adam (July 24, 2008)[more][less]
Abstract: As a consortium of libraries from public and private institutions across the state of Texas, the Texas Digital Library (TDL) exists to promote the scholarly activities of its members. One of its earliest initiatives was a federated collection of ETDs from across the state. There are currently 16 participating schools in TDL, four of which are contributing over 4000 ETDs per year, and membership and contributions are growing. A diverse set of content contributors introduces the problems of inconsistent metadata and incompatible storage and access methods, making it difficult to offer effective tools and services. This influenced the decision to create a state-wide system for managing the entire life-cycle of ETDs, from the point of ingestion to final publication; pooling resources to address this common problem was appealing for both technical and economic reasons. In 2007, we reported on the status of the functional system prototype. This paper reports on the results of the demonstrator event that is taking place in spring 2008 at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas, and discusses the requirements for moving to a production environment. These include testing and scaling the system to handle the large numbers of users dispersed over a significant geographic area (Texas is the third-largest producer of PhDs in the US). Our intention is to embrace international standards for ETD metadata and policies as they continue to evolve through community efforts, such as the NDLTD union catalog of ETDs. Finally, we will examine the status of the project’s release as an add-on component to a DSpace repository through the Manakin interface framework under an open source license. A primary design goal of this project is to create a product that satisfies TDL’s requirements and provides a turnkey implementation for ETD management and publication that can be scaled for the broader academic community. URI: http://handle.tamu.edu/1969.1/85724 Files in this item: 2
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Phillips, Scott; Green, Cody; Maslov, Alexey; Mikeal, Adam; Leggett, John (July 16, 2007)[more][less]
URI: http://handle.tamu.edu/1969.1/5693 Files in this item: 1
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Phillips, Scott; Maslov, Alexey; Leggett, John; Mikeal, Adam (July 16, 2007)[more][less]
Abstract: This paper describes the modifications to DSpace by Texas A&M Libraries to support an XML-based user interface. DSpace supports digital repositories composed of communities and collections. Each community within DSpace typically represents an organizational unit within an institution. To increase the appeal of DSpace as a digital repository to these communities, this project enables the establishment of a unique look and feel that might extend outside of DSpace into an existing web presence. We believe this may increase the adoption of DSpace by these communities. URI: http://handle.tamu.edu/1969.1/5692 Files in this item: 1
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Maslov, Alexey; Green, Cody; Mikeal, Adam; Phillips, Scott; Leggett, John (July 16, 2007)[more][less]
URI: http://handle.tamu.edu/1969.1/5691 Files in this item: 2
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Phillips, Scott; Green, Cody; Maslov, Alexey; Mikeal, Adam; Leggett, John (July 16, 2007)[more][less]
URI: http://handle.tamu.edu/1969.1/5690 Files in this item: 2
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