I gave a talk toady---November 8 2019---at the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2019) [1], held in Porto, Portugal. [1] http://etd2019.upt.pt

3. • The university of
Zambia has had a
functional Institutional
Repository since 2012,
with a significant
uptake of Electronic
Theses and
Dissertations (ETDs).

4. • Ingestion of ETDs is
not timely
• Huge time gaps
between submission
and eventual ingestion
of ETDs
• ETDs have missing and
incorrect descriptive
metadata

5. • Key stakeholders
• ONLY two individuals responsible for
metadata tagging and ingestion

6. • Key stakeholders
• ONLY two individuals responsible for
metadata tagging and ingestion

7. • Key stakeholders
• ONLY two individuals responsible for
metadata tagging and ingestion

8. • Key stakeholders
• ONLY two individuals responsible for
metadata tagging and ingestion

9. • Exploration of effective submission
workflow that involve multiple
stakeholders

10. • Using machine learning techniques to
automatically classify ETDs
• Implementation of tools and plugins that
interface with the classification models

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13. • We are working towards a broad goal of increasing visibility
of ETDs in Zambia
• We are working towards Zambia’s Vision 2030 goal of because
an information and knowledge-based society