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

**2014**
Poulo, Lebeko, Lighton Phiri, and Hussein Suleman. 2014. “Fine-Grained Scalability Of Digital Library Services In The Cloud”. In 2014 Southern African Institute For Computer Scientist And Information Technologists Annual Conference, 28-September-2014:157-165. New York, NY, USA: Association of Computing Machinary. doi:10.1145/2664591.2664611.	More Info.

**2013**
Phiri, Lighton, and Hussein Suleman. 2013. “Benchmarking A File-Based Digital Library System Repository Architecture”. CS13-04-00. Cape Town, South Africa: University of Cape Town. Digital Library Systems (DLSes) have over the past few decades evolved into complex tools and services used to manage Digital Libraries (DLs). However, as the amount digitised and born digital content being generated increases, there is increasingly a gro.	More Info.
Phiri, Lighton. 2013. “Simple Digital Libraries”. Department Of Computer Science. Cape Town, South Africa: University of Cape Town. http://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/6638.	More Info.
Phiri, Lighton, and Hussein Suleman. 2013. “Flexible Design For Simple Digital Library Tools And Services”. In 2013 South African Institute For Computer Scientists And Information Technologists, 160-169. East London, South Africa: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/2513456.2513485.	More Info.

**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.

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