Avicenna Virtual Library

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Avicenna Virtual Library
Index

• AVL structure
• AVL public area
• AVL private area
• LOM Repository
• Courses Administration Catalogue
• Institutions Administration
• AKCs Administration
• Users Administration

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How to access the AVL?
http//avicenna.unesco.org
AVICENNA PORTAL
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AVL Components
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AVL Public Area
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Public Screen

• Three main areas
• Search the course catalogue
• Information on institutions and AKCs
• Menu Private / Advanced search

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Directed searches on Course Catalogue

• Options
• Level
• Country
• Study area (field)

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Results of the search
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Detailed information on the course
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Detailed information on AKC and Avicenna
Institutions
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Advanced search on course catalogue
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AVL Private Area
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Restricted access to private area

• Click private
• Enter user and password

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Two roles, two different menus

• Administrators menu
• AKC menu

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Advanced search for registered users

• Apart from accessing the search options in the
  course catalogue, registered users can also carry
  out searches in the LOM repository.

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Advanced search results

• Description / Summary
• Interactivity
• Difficulty
• Contents
• End user

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LOM Repository

• (Restricted Area)

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Managing information in the LOM repository

• Click Metadata Repository
• Add, view, modify or remove content

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Adding content to the LOM repository

• Click Add content
• Fill in the fields
• Type
• Title
• Description
• ...
• Click next

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LOM repository has three main areas

• General info
• Educational
• Technical

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Saving the information

• Some fields are mandatory

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Deleting LOM content

• Click delete
• In the next screen, click confirm

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Attaching a file to a LOM element

• Click attachment
• Select the file to attach and click Upload

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Courses administration

• (Private Area)

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Managing Courses in the AVL

• Click Courses Adm.
• Course information can be viewed just by
  selecting the course title.

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Creating a new course

• Title
• Code
• Area
• ...

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Modifying/Deleting course content

• Select the option Modify/Delete
• Click confirm transaction

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Institutions administration

• (Private Area)

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Institution information management

• Click Institutional Info
• Add, view, modify or remove Institutions

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Creating a new institution

• Click Insert Institution
• Complete data
• Click Insert

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Modifying/ Deleting institution information

• Select the option Modify/Delete
• If modifying, change desired data
• Confirm transaction

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AKCs administration

• (Private Area)

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AKC information management

• Click AKC Info
• Add, view, modify or remove AKCs

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Creating a new AKC

• Click Insert new AKC
• Fill in the fileds
• Name
• Address
• www
• ...

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Modifying AKC information

• Click modify
• Click Update, click Confirm

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Deleting an AKC

• Click Delete
• Click on the confirm button

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Users administration
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Users management
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AVL Design
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AVL Design

• Three main objetives
• The use of open software
• Interoperability and integration with the rest of
  the Avicenna computer systems
• Software reutilization

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AVL Design Software base

• AVL is based on
• Linux Operating System
• Apache2 Web Server
• PHP4
• MySQL database
• ...and uses
• Smarty
• CSS

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AVL Design Course catalogue
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AVL Design Repository