A paper I co-authored with four other colleagues from our research group was accepted as a 10-page full paper at this year’s 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2012) [1] :). We were notified towards the end of July, 2012 and I was especially impressed with the positive feedback from the three (3) reviewers, regrettably though, the submission was not nominated for the best paper award 🙁
The publication is titled “Bonolo: A General Digital Library System for File-based Collections” [2]. It’s the result of one and half years of collaborative research. The design of the software is based on design principles that form the core of my research, the initial version of the software –the curator and end user Web interfaces– was implemented by two honours students —Stuart Hammar and Miles Robinson— as part of their honurs academic requirement, I worked on the repository sub-layer, and Hussein was principle investigator. However, prior to writing the paper, Kyle Williams and myself did a sprint [3] and extensively made a number of changes to the tool. The performance evaluation and user experience evaluation of the user interface was conducted by Miles and Stuart, but I conducted another online UX study prior to writing the paper. In a nutshell, the overall contribution was as follows.
Articles, Books and Technical Reports |
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2022 |
Enterprise Medical Imaging for Improved Radiological Workflows: Towards an Interoperable and Standards-Based Medical Imaging Platform in Public Health Facilities in Zambia Ernest Obbie Zulu and Lighton Phiri Zambia Digital Health Conference 2022 Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Enterprise Medical Imaging in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities Ernest Obbie Zulu and Lighton Phiri IST-Africa Conference 2022 Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Factors Influencing Co-Creation of Open Education Resources Using Learning Object Repositories Mulenga Chanda, Elizabeth Chirwa, Mirriam Kamanga, Mwenya Kayula and Lighton Phiri 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2022) Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2021 |
Enterprise Medical Imaging for Streamlined Radiological Diagnosis in Zambian Public Health Facilities Ernest Obbie Zulu and Lighton Phiri Technical Report Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Improved Discoverability of Digital Objects in Institutional Repositories Using Controlled Vocabularies Bertha Chipangila, Eric Liswaniso, Andrew Mawila, Philomena Mwanza, Daisy Nawila, Robert M sendo, Mayumbo Nyirenda and Lighton Phiri The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2021 Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Effective Ingestion Of Digital Objects In Institutional Repositories Using Subject Repositories Mathews Mbewe, Mathews Mwewa, Moonga Habukali, Nandi Sikazindu, Nozyenji Mwale and Lighton Phiri IST-Africa Conference 2021 Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Automatic classification of digital objects for improved metadata quality of electronic theses and dissertations in institutional repositories Lighton Phiri International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2020 |
Improved Scholarly Communication Using Machine Learning Lighton Phiri 2nd ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
A Multi-Faceted Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Increased Visibility of ETDs in Zambia Lighton Phiri 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Thesis and Dissertations. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2019 |
Towards Increased Online Visibility of Scholarly Research Output in the Global South Lighton Phiri Poster | 1st ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2018 |
Research Visibility in the Global South: Towards Increased Online Visibility of Scholarly Research Output in Zambia Lighton Phiri Conference Paper | 2nd IEEE International Conference in Information and Communication Technologies. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Investigating the Impact of Organised Technology-driven Orchestration on Teaching Lighton Phiri PhD Thesis | Department of Computer Science | University of Cape Town. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Reusable and Shareable Orchestration Packages Nabeel Parker, Morné Valentyn, Hussein Suleman, Christoph Meinel and Lighton Phiri Technical Report | Department of Computer Science | University of Cape Town. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2017 |
Peer Tutoring Orchestration: Streamlined Technology-driven Orchestration for Peer Tutoring Lighton Phiri, Christoph Meinel, and Hussein Suleman Conference Paper | 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2016 |
Ad hoc vs. Organised Orchestration: A Comparative Analysis of Technology-driven Orchestration Approaches Lighton Phiri, Christoph Meinel, and Hussein Suleman Conference Paper | 8th International Conference on Technology for Education Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Streamlined Orchestration: An Orchestration Workbench Framework for Effective Teaching Lighton Phiri, Christoph Meinel and Hussein Suleman Journal Article | Computers & Education Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Streamlined Technology-driven Orchestration for Effective Teaching Lighton Phiri Poster | University of Cape Town Annual Teaching and Learning Conference. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2015 |
Managing cultural heritage: information systems architecture Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman Book Chapter | Chapter 6 | Cultural Heritage Information Access and Management Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Streamlined Technology-driven Orchestration for Effective Teaching Lighton Phiri Poster | 10th Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2014 |
Fine-grained Scalability of Digital Library Services in the Cloud Lebeko Poulo, Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman Conference Paper | 2014 South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Automatic Workflow Management for Spatial Heritage Data Michiel Johan Baird, Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman Technical Report | Department of Computer Science | University of Cape Town. Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2013 |
Simple Digital Libraries. Lighton Phiri MSc Dissertation | Department of Computer Science | University of Cape Town Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Flexible Design for Simple Digital Library Tools and Services Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman Conference Paper | 2013 South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
Benchmarking a File-based Digital Library System Repository Architecture Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman Technical Report | Department of Computer Science | University of Cape Town Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2012 |
Bonolo: A General Digital Library System for File-based Collections Lighton Phiri, Kyle Williams, Miles Robinson, Stuart Hammar and Hussein Suleman Conference Paper | 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
In Search of Simplicity: Redesigning the Digital Bleek and Lloyd Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman Journal Article | DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
2011 |
simplyCT: A Lightweight Digital Library Framework Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman Conference Paper | 2011 South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
A Lightweight Digital Library Framework Lighton Phiri and Hussein Suleman Poster | 2011 South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Preprint | Institutional Repository | Publisher | BibTex |
I picked up quite a number of things during the course of the project and got a sense of how collaborative research is conducted.
Bibliography
[1] http://www.icadl2012.org/
[2] http://www.icadl2012.org/AcceptedPapersandPosters.html#01
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(software_development)