Digital Libraries are collections of structured digital objects that can be accessed by the users in a distributed way across networks such as Internet. The benefits of those libraries, however, are augmented when the user can access this set of digital libraries in a unified way. This supposes schemes of integration or federation of autonomous digital libraries with their own architectures and systems. This integration is commonly referred as meta-library. This paper describes a proposal to build a distributed digital library of thesis and dissertations called Biblioteca Digital Regional de Tesis y Disertaciones (BDRTD). BDTRD has two parts: BDTesis indexes, loads and manages the digital content and MetaTesis integrates BDTesis or similar platforms. MetaTesis will be connected to international projects such as Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). BDRTD is based on Biblioteca Digital de Nueva Generación (BDNG) developed at EAFITUniversity. Based on BDNG, we are implemented several projects: BDEAFIT (Digital Library of Eafit University), BDEI (Digital Library of Interactive EAFIT), and MetaBD (Integration of Regional and National Digital/Referential Libraries. BDRTD uses the same principles of BDNG: open source, metadata models based on RDF and Dublin Core and native XML databases.
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