Lighton Phiri

Full Name

Lighton Phiri

Email Address

lighton.phiriATunza.zm

Role

Academic Staff

Biography

Dr. Lighton Phiri is a Lecturer and Researcher at The University of Zambia. He was awarded a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. His broad research interests lie within the areas of Digital Libraries and Data Mining. He also has on-going research interest in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and Technology-Enhanced Learning.

Projects

Automatic Classification of IR Objects

Smart IR Deposit Platform

Scholarly Research Output Online Visibility

Zambia National ETD Portal

Enterprise Medical Imaging

Educational Data Mining

Wikipedia Content Contribution in the Global South

Open and Accessible Legal and Legislative Documents

Publications

**2012**
Phiri, Lighton, Kyle Williams, Miles Robinson, Stuart Hammar, and Hussein Suleman. 2012. “Bonolo: A General Digital Library System For File-Based Collections”. In 14Th International Conference On Asian Digital Libraries, 7634:49-58. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_6.	More Info.

**2011**
Phiri, Lighton, and Hussein Suleman. 2011. “Simplyct: A Lightweight Digital Library Framework”. In 2011 Southern African Institute For Computer Scientist And Information Technologists Annual Conference. Cape Town, South Africa: Association for Computing Machinery. http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/961.	More Info.

2012

2011