Repositorio Digital de Trabajos de Grado para la Facultad de Ingeniería de Sistemas de la Universidad Santo Tomás - Seccional Tunja

Abstract

The project focuses on the design and development of a digital repository for undergraduate thesis projects for the Faculty of Systems Engineering at Universidad Santo Tomás – Tunja campus, with the purpose of centralizing, organizing, preserving, and facilitating access to academic production, which was previously dispersed across different media, making consultation, monitoring, and long-term preservation difficult. In response to this problem, a web platform based on a layered client–server architecture was developed, integrating functionalities such as user registration and authentication, role-based access control, management of thesis projects, administration of academic catalogs, attachment handling, and advanced search tools, allowing not only the storage of final documents but also associated academic products, thereby strengthening institutional knowledge management. The development process followed a prototyping methodology with iterative validations involving teachers and students, and the system was subsequently evaluated using software quality tools, providing evidence of adequate security, maintainability, and code organization. As a result, the platform is consolidated as a technological solution aimed at improving academic visibility and the preservation of the faculty’s research memory.