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
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. |
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Phiri, Lighton, and Hussein Suleman. 2012. “In Search Of Simplicity: Redesigning The Digital Bleek And Lloyd”. In Desidoc Journal Of Library \& Information Technology. Vol. 32. India: Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre. doi:10.14429/djlit.32.4.2524. |
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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. |
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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. |
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