Biblioteca digital online integrada a ambiente de educação a distância

Abstract

The Information and Communication Technology allowed new ways of information storage and distribution, contributing to the libraries evolution. New conceptions as Digital Libraries were proposed, considered efficient means of information preservation and deployment, including online. Internet also has been supporting technologies development with focus on teaching and learning. Digital Libraries and e-learning Systems together can promote access to data in a concise way useful to educational contexts. This undergraduate final Project aim at contributing to the construction of an Online Digital Library model tailored to the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA) context, which could be integrated to the elearning System in use at University – Moodle. It began with a requirement elicitation intended to discover operations and features to be available by UNIPAMPA Digital Library, taking into account different perspectives. Considering the requirement elicitation output, Digital Library Systems were investigated. Existing solutions that consider the integration of Digital Library Systems to e-learning Systems, the features of the chosen library systems and integration requirements were also analyzed. The solution development took into account Moodle documentation as well Dspace integration possibilities. The result was the implementation of a Moodle plugin able to search Dspace System and to import or to link existing objects from Dspace to Moodle, besides all the generated documentation of this process.