Demo presented at 16th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations ETD 2013 organized by Hongkong University Libraries, Hong Kong between 22nd September to 26th September.http://lib.hku.hk/etd2013/programme.html#23

1. ABCD for ETD repositories
Short demo
by S. Dhamdhere and
E. de Smet

2. 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

3. Author’s view on ABCD

4. 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

5. Author record view

6. Author record creation

7. 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

8. Author document upload

9. 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

10. Author new record view (1st part)

11. Author new record view (2nd part)

12. 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.

13. ABCD Site with DC repository

14. Simple search

15. Advanced search with index

16. Advanced search boolean

17. End-user search result

18. 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