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
Publications
Mbewe, Mathews, Mathews Mwewa, Moonga Habukali, Nandi Sikazindu, Nozyenji Mwale, and Lighton Phiri. 2021. “Effective Ingestion Of Digital Objects In Institutional Repositories Using Subject Repositories”. In 2021 Ist-Africa Conference (Ist-Africa), xxx-xxx. South Africa: IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9576906. |
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Chipangila, Bertha, Eric Liswaniso, Andrew Mawila, Philomena Mwanza, Daisy Nawila, Robert Msendo, Mayumbo Nyirenda, and Lighton Phiri. 2021. “Improved Discoverability Of Digital Objects In Institutional Repositories Using Controlled Vocabularies”. In 2021 Acm/Ieee Joint Conference On Digital Libraries (Jcdl 2021). Champaign, IL, USA: IEEE. doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL52503.2021.00022. |
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Phiri, Lighton. 2020. “Automatic Classification Of Digital Objects For Improved Metadata Quality Of Electronic Theses And Dissertations In Institutional Repositories”. International Journal Of Metadata, Semantics And Ontologies 14: 234-248. doi:10.1504/IJMSO.2020.112804. |
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Phiri, Lighton. 2019. “A Multi-Faceted Multi-Stakeholder Approach For Increased Visibility Of Etds In Zambia”. Cadernos Bad 2019 (1). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11959/brapci/134563. |
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Phiri, Lighton. 2018. “Research Visibility In The Global South : Towards Increased Online Visibility Of Scholarly Research Output In Zambia”. In 2Nd Ieee International Conference In Information And Communication Technologies. Lusaka, Zambia. http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/5723. |
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