ABCD Open Source Software for Managing ETD Repositories. d by, eeta N Dhamdhere, India t De Smet, Belgium as Lihitkar, India.

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1 ABCD Open Source Software for Managing ETD Repositories d by, eeta N Dhamdhere, India t De Smet, Belgium as Lihitkar, India Company

2 Overview. Introduction ti. Institutional/Digital Repository. ETD Repository and Initiatives. ABCD Open Source Software. Technical Features of ABCD Software for ETD Repository Application. Illustrations and conclusion

3 Introduction pen Access Initiative i i has removed barriers to accessing scholarly l erature and hence avoiding duplication of research work and agiarism. AI has its roots in the Open Access and Institutional Repository (IR) ovements. It develops and promotes interoperability standards that m to facilitate the efficient dissemination and long-term access to holarly literature. e IRs are playing an important role in giving access to electronic sources in different format including scholarly publications. urpose of this paper: give technical information about the application of ABCD Open ource Software for managing IR of Electronic Theses and issertations at various levels with illustrations.

4 collects, stores and disseminates digital resources d efforts made for long term preservation of ganizational or institutional intellectual property in ital form Institutional/Digital Repository Institutional Repository is a digital research archive nsisting of accessible collections of scholarly work that present the intellectual capital of an institution. e can say IR as a web-based based database (repository) of holarly material.

5 ETD Repository ctronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) is an electronic repository system ch comprises information such as concepts and outputs of the latest arches produced by scholars during their process of cognition, exploration analysis. se ETD Repositories are managed by using digital library software or content agement softwares in many organizations. n Source Softwares commonly used for ETD Management all over world are

6 ABCD Open Source Software utomation of libraries and Centres for Documentation (ABCD) ot just library automation, higher level of flexibility and diversity of se. FOSS-project by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) ith BIREME (WHO/Brazil) he project was led by Ernest Spinak and Egbert De Smet of the niversity of Antwerp. he software entails, as a 'software suite' like e.g. Microsoft Office, odules for database administration (definitions of storage and dexing structures, data-entry, searching, import-export p etc.), loans dministration, serials management, online end-user searching PAC) and portal with integrated meta-search and Content

7 Continued First 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 or using it, mostly in Latin America but also in e.g. East- Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique). 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-

8 Technical features making ABCD suitable for ETD Repository applications reedom of database structure : ABCD offers flexibility to create ll text database of ETD using existing MARC 21 format, CEPAL, ublin Core or users s can create new databases from scratch using IS Field Definition Tables and its powerful Formatting Language. his is a rather unique feature of this software. Not many other oftwares provide such flexibility for database management. It upports therefore all standards and non-standards.

9 Adding New ETD Repositories from the Scratch ser can create and add as many databases (ETD or any type) on one latform and manages them separately in the ABCD Central module but eep them within one single searching environment (the 'meta-search') in the BCD-Site for end-users.

10 ETD Database from the existing standard formats software allows users to use MARC-21 (or UNIMARC) cataloguing ats, LILACS, AGRIS, CEPAL. er standards available are Dublin Core, METS, Z39.50, ISAD/G; from ion 2 Unicode encoded databases are possible.

11 MARC 21 ETD Database

12 CEPAL Format for ETD Database L Database support to create an excellent ETD database with full text access.

13 Illustration

14 Full text Indexing capability ABCD is based on PHP for the nterface creation, some nice tools are embedded. E.g. itor is a PHP-library offering a ML-editor which can be dded into a cataloging form to full documents. Text from -documents can be 'copyd' into a field of an ISIS-record ing this tool. The field will be nted as a web (HTML) ent but keeping the wording technique for retrieval. version 2.0 the file-upload anism adds a 'text-extractor' extractor' (for pdftohtml.exe' is used, for other ts the java-based 'tika' tool),

15 The use of non-latin scripts, as a web-based software, can use (from v2.0) non-latin scripts (e.g. ic, Chinese, Greek, Sanskrit,...) as part of the web-browser b capabilities

16 Integrated end-user full text search Alphabetical and by URL

17 OAI-Metadata Harvesting Protocol offers a module which allows to access its databases through the OAI- data Harvesting Protocol, with the implementation ti of the 6 main verbs, as ated below. Alternatively the URL's created by the interface can also be to be sent directly to the ABCD-server for incorporation of the results (as a ile with XML-tags) into other systems.

18 n Core database with a search in iah (the OPAC) with Unicode support

19 Sample Site

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

21 Conclusion r creating ETD repositories and union catalogue of Ds the new 2.0 version of ABCD open source software being fully ready for all library communities free of cost th all international standards inbuilt. ith less knowledge of programming library professionals n build their digital repositories and give full or partial cess. This software allows accessing its databases rough the OAI-Metadata Harvesting Protocol too.

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