Webley, Lawrence and Chipeperekwa, Tatenda and Suleman, Hussein (2011) Creating a National Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Portal in South Africa, Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 13-17 September 2011, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Abstract
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. It is argued in this paper that 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.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ETD, OAI-PMH, repository, harvester, portal, national archive, metadata |
| Subjects: | Human-centered computing Information systems > Information retrieval |
| Alternate Locations: | http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011/papers/etd2011_webley.pdf |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2011 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:33 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/748 |
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