About the Zambia National ETD Portal

A national aggregator of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) produced by Zambian higher education institutions, harvested from institutional repositories using OAI-PMH, with research into metadata quality, completeness and ETD-MS compliance.

Developed by the DataLab Research Group, and hosted by ZAMREN (Zambia Research and Education Network), which provides the server space for the portal. See also the credits. Project page: https://datalab.unza.zm/projects/zambia-national-etd-portal

Project members

• Lighton Phiri (Principal Investigator)
• Elijah Chileshe (Postgraduate Student, MSc Computer Science)
• Frazer Nyambe (Postgraduate Student, MSc Computer Science)
• Robert M'sendo (Postgraduate Student, PhD Computer Science)
• Mubanga Chibesa (Postgraduate Student, PgDip Computer Science)
• Adrian Chisale (Postgraduate Student, MA Library and Information Science)
• Cecilia Kasonde (Postgraduate Student, MA Library and Information Science)
• Angela Banda (Postgraduate Student, MA Library and Information Science)
• Richard Mufuzi (Undergraduate Student, B.ICT With Education)
• Chanda Chilufya (Undergraduate Student, B.ICT With Education)
• Kamfwa Chileshe (Undergraduate Student, B.ICT With Education)
• Memory Phiri (Undergraduate Student, B.ICT With Education)
• Mainda Chuulu (Undergraduate Student, B.ICT With Education)
• Gift Muwele (Undergraduate Student, B.ICT With Education)
• Geoffrey Ngoma (Undergraduate Student, BA Library and Information Science)
• Nkole Mulenga (Undergraduate Student, BA Library and Information Science)
• Bertha Chipangila (Undergraduate Student, BA Library and Information Science)
• Eric Liswaniso (Undergraduate Student, BA Library and Information Science)
• Andrew Mawila (Undergraduate Student, BA Library and Information Science)
• Philomena Mwanza (Undergraduate Student, BA Library and Information Science)
• Daisy Nawila (Undergraduate Student, BA Library and Information Science)

Publications based on the Zambia National ETD Portal project

The publications, dissertations and capstone reports below come out of the Zambia National ETD Portal project. They study the visibility of Zambian research, the quality, completeness and ETD-MS compliance of ETD metadata in institutional repositories, and ways of improving it; their findings shaped how this portal harvests, cleans and presents ETD metadata.

• 2024 Poster
  Chileshe, E. & Phiri, L. (2024). Zambia National ETD Portal: Implementation of an Interoperable National Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Portal. 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2024). https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18grbYjU2LdcqHDs4V-cququXvMyJCenFykFJUq8xnBc/edit
• 2024 Dissertation
  Chisale, A. (2024). Identification of Sources for Missing Electronic Theses and Dissertations Metadata in Higher Education in Zambia (Master of Library and Information Science dissertation). University of Zambia. https://datalab.unza.zm/sites/default/files/2024-06/etds-datalab24-mlis-dissertation-adrian_chisale.pdf
• 2023 Conference paper
  Chisale, A. & Phiri, L. (2023). Towards Metadata Completeness in National ETD Portals for Improved Discoverability. 26th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2023), Gujarat, India. http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/1944/2446
• 2023 Conference paper
  Kasonde, C. & Phiri, L. (2023). Assessing and Promoting Metadata Quality for Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories Using a Policy-Driven Approach. 26th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2023), Gujarat, India. http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/1944/2412
• 2023 Capstone report
  Chanda, C., Kanfwa, C. & Mainda, C. (2023). Zambia National ETD Pre-Processing Pipeline (ICT 4014 project report). University of Zambia. https://datalab.unza.zm/sites/default/files/2023-12/reports-unza23-ict4014-chanda_kanfwa_mainda.pdf
• 2022 Conference paper
  Kasonde, C., Chisale, A. & Phiri, L. (2022). Empirical Evaluation of ETD-MS Compliance in Institutional Repositories. 25th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2022), Novi Sad, Serbia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7084847
• 2021 Conference paper
  Chipangila, B., Liswaniso, E., Mawila, A., Mwanza, P., Nawila, D., Msendo, R., Nyirenda, M. & Phiri, L. (2021). Improved Discoverability of Digital Objects in Institutional Repositories Using Controlled Vocabularies. 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2021). https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL52503.2021.00022
• 2020 Journal article
  Phiri, L. (2020). Automatic Classification of Digital Objects for Improved Metadata Quality of Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 14, 234–248. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMSO.2020.112804
• 2019 Journal article
  Phiri, L. (2019). A Multi-Faceted Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Increased Visibility of ETDs in Zambia. Cadernos BAD, 2019(1). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11959/brapci/134563
• 2018 Conference paper
  Phiri, L. (2018). Research Visibility in the Global South: Towards Increased Online Visibility of Scholarly Research Output in Zambia. 2nd IEEE International Conference in Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 2018), Lusaka, Zambia. http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/5723

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