Description:
During the past years, the ITESM Campus Monterrey has been
involved in the development of Digital Library Technology. More
specifically, they have been working on the development of the Phronesis
system:
a freely available software tool for the creation of distributed
digital libraries on the Internet. The Phronesis system is a single
system that allows the submission, searching, retrieval, and
administration of a digital library via WWW. Phronesis has been built by
integrating freely available software components, open standards, and
the MG research system. The current functionality of Phronesis includes
full document and metadata based searching, indexing, and retrieval of
Spanish and English documents, bilingual user interface, efficient
storage and retrieval of images, audio, video, text, and any type of
digital document. The system has received national and international
attention from man institutions and organizations, including
UNESCO.
This project would install Phronesis at Virginia Tech and
then explore various applications. Some possibilities include
work with electronic theses and dissertations in multiple
languages, enhancement to support the Open Archives Initiative,
or handling of campus collections of images.