ABCD for ETD repositories

Short demo by S. Dhamdhere and

E. de Smet

Author submission

• Authors as institutional members get a login password

• After logging in they get a simplified ABCD Central screen– Only ‘data entry’ function is accessible– Only DUBCORE database is provided– Based on a dedicated ‘author’ user-profile

Author’s view on ABCD

Author’s view on DC database

• The author’s profile allows to browse the database and add one or more records

• Records can have a protection code (‘password’)

• After creating the metadata record, the author can create the URL and full-text field by simply selecting the PDF for uploading into the server

Author record view

Author record creation

Author document upload

• After creating the metadata record, the author can upload the document– In PDF format– In other doc-formats supported by TIKA

• A dialog box simply allows to identify the document to be uploaded

• After upload the URL and full-text are added in 2 dedicated fields

Author document upload

Author document uploaded• After identifying the

document for uploading, the autmoated process is :– Document file copied

into originals folder– URL added into

dedicated field– Full-text added into

dedicated field– Full-text word-indexed

Author new record view (1st part)

Author new record view (2nd part)

End-user earch through OPAC

• The repository database(s) can be added to the ABCD Site along with catalogs and other resources of the ABCD Metasearch

• Using metasearch repository is searched along with catalogs

• Clicking on the repository link opens the OPAC on that database

• Free-text and advanced (Boolean) searches can be performed

• Searches both on text and metadata are possible• Search result ready for viewing, printing, sending etc.

ABCD Site with DC repository

Simple search

Advanced search with index

Advanced search boolean

End-user search result

THANK YOU

• Some extra info :– ABCD downloads at http://abcd.netcat.be/files– ABCD and ISIS discussion list on internet :• Registration at http://lists.iccisis.org/listinfo/isis-users• Messages (questions/responses) in English, Spanish,

French, Portuguese...

– Supervisors e-mails :• E. de Smet : egbert.desmet@uantwerpen.be• E. Spinak : spinaker@adinet.com.uy