WhizKEY: um ambiente para instalação de bibliotecas digitais

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Rodrygo Luis Teodoro Santos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: bibliotecas digitais; Bibliotecas digitais; Computação
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/RVMR-7AAQNA

In this dissertation, we present WhizKEY -- Wizard-based blocK Ensemble Yielder, an environment to assist users in the installation of digital libraries from existing software frameworks. WhizKEY has been designed to provide users with an integrated environment for constructing and personalizing digital libraries from possibly several different software frameworks.From a user's viewpoint, WhizKEY aims at shielding digital library designers from the intricacies of the underlying installation task, allowing them to concentrate on the requirements of the system being instantiated rather than on the installation task itself. For such, designers are guided through the task, and every parameter configured by them is verified against a set of constraints in order to guarantee the correctness of the produced installation.From a framework developer's viewpoint, WhizKEY implements the installation task as a workflow, regarding each step in this workflow as responsible for the configuration of instances of major aspects within a digital library (e.g., the library itself, its collections or metadata catalogs, and the services it may provide). This workflow is fully configurable to enable the installation of digital libraries based on different software frameworks.Through two separate usability test sessions comprising potential WhizKEY users, the effectiveness of the environment with respect to easing the installation task was attested and a list of problems was devised and employed in the development of its current version.