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ABCD Open Source Software for Managing ETD Repositories p ed by, geeta N Dhamdhere, India rt De Smet Belgium rt De Smet, Belgium das Lihitkar, India Company d t Overview 1 I t 1. Introduction d ti 2. Institutional/Digital Repository
ABCD Open Source Software for Managing ETD Repositories p ed by, geeta N Dhamdhere, India rt De Smet Belgium
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rt De Smet, Belgium das Lihitkar, India d t
O A I i i i h d b i i h l l Open 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)
im to facilitate the efficient dissemination and long-term access to g cholarly literature. he IRs are playing an important role in giving access to electronic esources in different format including scholarly publications esources in different format including scholarly publications. urpose of this paper:
Dissertations at various levels with illustrations. Methodology used:
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
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)
with BIREME (WHO/Brazil) Th j t l d b E t S i k d E b t D S t f th The 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
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
us g SIS 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 g supports therefore all standards and non-standards.
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 t platform 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.
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.
AL Database support to create an excellent ETD database with full text access.
ABCD i b d PHP f th e ABCD is based on PHP for the nterface creation, some nice
ditor is a PHP-library offering a y g TML-editor which can be edded into a cataloging form to e full documents. Text from 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' (for hanism adds a 'text-extractor' (for 'pdftohtml.exe' is used, for other ats the java-based 'tika' tool),
, 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 biliti ric, Chinese, Greek, Sanskrit,...) as part of the web-browser capabilities
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 b adata 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 systems file with XML-tags) into other systems.
in Core database with a search in iAH (the OPAC) with Unicode support
ABCD Demo
Let's have a look at how ABCD software works for ETD management
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