A service-oriented national e-theses information system and repository
Evi Sachini, Nikos Houssos, Panagiotis Stathopoulos, Joanna Sarantopoulou, Dimitris Zavaliadis · National Hellenic Research Foundation Helios Repository (National Hellenic Research Foundation) · 2010
This article provides an overview of important issues and design decisions involved in the development of an e-theses IT infrastructure, in particular the Greek National Archive of Doctoral Theses (HEDI). The adoption of the service-oriented architectural paradigm, the identification of appropriate services and systems for each task and the use of a mature open repository platform (DSpace) allow the successful management of a large e-theses archive with both print and electronic material. Future plans include, among others, the application of automated metadata extraction for the creation of bibliographic records, the automation of the procedure of digital file quality checking and the interoperation with CRIS systems [8] using the CERIF standard [9]connecting the theses with structured information about authors, organisations as well as research projects which have specifically funded PhD theses.