ABCD Open Source Software for Managing ETD Repositoriesp

ed by,geeta N Dhamdhere, Indiart De Smet Belgium

Company

rt De Smet, Belgiumdas Lihitkar, Indiad t

Overview

1 I t d ti1. Introduction2. Institutional/Digital Repository3 ETD R it d I iti ti3. ETD Repository and Initiatives4. ABCD Open Source Software5 T h i l F t f ABCD5. Technical Features of ABCD

Software for ETD Repository ApplicationApplication

6. Illustrations and conclusion

Introduction

O A I i i i h d b i i h l lOpen Access Initiative has removed barriers to accessing scholarly terature and hence avoiding duplication of research work and lagiarism.

OAI has its roots in the Open Access and Institutional Repository (IR) movements. It develops and promotes interoperability standards that im to facilitate the efficient dissemination and long-term access to gcholarly literature. he IRs are playing an important role in giving access to electronic esources in different format including scholarly publicationsesources in different format including scholarly publications.urpose of this paper:o give technical information about the application of ABCD Open ource Software for managing IR of Electronic Theses andource Software for managing IR of Electronic Theses and

Dissertations at various levels with illustrations. Methodology used:

Institutional/Digital Repository

n Institutional Repository is a digital research archive onsisting of accessible collections of scholarly work that epresent the intellectual capital of an institution.

We can say IR as a web based database (repository) ofWe can say IR as a web-based database (repository) of cholarly material.

R collects, stores and disseminates digital resources nd efforts made for long term preservation of rganizational or institutional intellectual property in gital form

ETD Repository

ectronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) is an electronic repository system ich comprises information such as concepts and outputs of the latest earches produced by scholars during their process of cognition, exploration d analysis.ese ETD Repositories are managed by using digital library software or content nagement softwares in many organizations.

en Source Softwares commonly used for ETD Management all over world are

ABCD Open Source Software

Automation of liBraries and Centres for Documentation (ABCD)Automation of liBraries and Centres for Documentation (ABCD)

Not just library automation, higher level of flexibility and diversity of use FOSS project by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR)use. FOSS-project by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) with BIREME (WHO/Brazil)

Th j t l d b E t S i k d E b t D S t f thThe project was led by Ernest Spinak and Egbert De Smet of the University of Antwerp.

The software entails, as a 'software suite' like e.g. Microsoft Office, modules for database administration (definitions of storage and ndexing structures, data-entry, searching, import-export etc.), loans g y g p p )administration, serials management, online end-user searching OPAC) and portal with integrated meta-search and Content

Continued…

First release 1.0 December 2009, This release of theFirst release 1.0 December 2009, This release of the software is still being developed towards its final version 1.3 likely to be release in October 2013, and the new release 2.0 with new functions like full-text indexing, online document delivery services and Unicode, meanwhile many libraries are experimenting with it ormeanwhile many libraries are experimenting with it or using it, mostly in Latin America but also in e.g. East-Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique).( p , y , , q )It name itself suggests this wide variety of usage, from libraries using international standards (ABCD offers MARC21 and CEPAL and others like DUBLIN CORE, UNIMARC and AGRIS), to very much localized non-

Technical features making ABCD suitable for ETD Repository applicationsp y pp

Freedom of database structure : ABCD offers flexibility to create ull text database of ETD using existing MARC 21 format, CEPAL, Dublin Core or users can create new databases from scratch using ub Co e o use s ca c eate e databases o sc atc us gSIS Field Definition Tables and its powerful Formatting Language. This is a rather unique feature of this software. Not many other softwares provide such flexibility for database management. It p y gsupports therefore all standards and non-standards.

Adding New ETD Repositories from the Scratch

User can create and add as many databases (ETD or any type) on one l tf d th t l i th ABCD C t l d l b tplatform and manages them separately in the ABCD Central module but

keep them within one single searching environment (the 'meta-search') in the ABCD-Site for end-users.

ETD Database from the existing standard formats

e software allows users to use MARC-21 (or UNIMARC) cataloguing mats, LILACS, AGRIS, CEPAL. her standards available are Dublin Core, METS, Z39.50, ISAD/G; from sion 2 – Unicode encoded databases are possible.

MARC 21 – ETD Database

CEPAL Format for ETD Database

AL Database support to create an excellent ETD database with full text access.

Illustration

Full text Indexing capability

ABCD i b d PHP f the ABCD is based on PHP for the nterface creation, some nice

-tools are embedded. E.g. ditor is a PHP-library offering a y gTML-editor which can be

edded into a cataloging form to e full documents. Text from documents can be 'copy-documents can be 'copy-

ed' into a field of an ISIS-record sing this tool. The field will be ented as a web (HTML) ( )ment but keeping the word-

xing technique for retrieval. w version 2.0 the file-upload

hanism adds a 'text extractor' (forhanism adds a 'text-extractor' (for 'pdftohtml.exe' is used, for other ats the java-based 'tika' tool),

The use of non-latin scripts

, as a web-based software, can use (from v2.0) non-latin scripts (e.g. i Chi G k S k it ) t f th b b bilitiric, Chinese, Greek, Sanskrit,...) as part of the web-browser capabilities

Integrated end-user full text search Alphabetical and by URL p y

OAI-Metadata Harvesting Protocol

D offers a module which allows to access its databases through the OAI-d t H ti P t l ith th i l t ti f th 6 i badata Harvesting Protocol, with the implementation of the 6 main verbs, as rated below. Alternatively the URL's created by the interface can also be

d to be sent directly to the ABCD-server for incorporation of the results (as a file with XML tags) into other systemsfile with XML-tags) into other systems.

in Core database with a search in iAH (the OPAC) with Unicode support

Sample Site

Demo

ABCD Demo

Let's have a look at how ABCD software works for ETD management

Conclusion

or creating ETD repositories and union catalogue of TDs the new 2.0 version of ABCD open source software being fully ready for all library communities free of cost ith all international standards inbuilt.

With less knowledge of programming library professionals an build their digital repositories and give full or partialan build their digital repositories and give full or partial ccess. This software allows accessing its databases rough the OAI-Metadata Harvesting Protocol too.

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