digital libraries laboratory @ uct . cs

Period

2009-

Description

A national Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) portal has been developed in South Africa to provide access to a country-specific collection of ETDs and, more importantly, to coordinate, manage, monitor and support the development of ETD programmes at the various universities. This portal required the development of a custom software solution, using a multi-tiered simple architecture of complex components. Arguably this tiered architecture, tightly integrated into a commonly-used application/operating system framework, is a good approach to develop such central repository architectures to interconnect into the larger repository ecosystems of NDLTD and similar organisations.

Resources

• ETD Portal Source Code -  tar.gz compressed , 7zip compressed

Team Members

Lighton Phiri, Lawrence Webley, Tatenda Chipeperekwa and Hussein Suleman

Publications

Lawrence Webley, Tatenda Chipeperekwa and Hussein Suleman (2011), Creating a National Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Portal in South Africa, to appear in Proceedings of ETD 2011, Cape Town, South Africa, 13-15 September 2011.