Scalable Information ManagementPeriod2006-2007 Description
Information Management Systems (a.k.a. digital libraries, electronic
libraries, networked information systems, etc.) are new to most developing
countries, yet we in developing countries have the most to benefit from an
unfettered sharing of electronic resources. In recent years, there has been
a growing interest in South Africa (and other African countries) in the use
of these systems for the setting up of institutional repositories,
electronic thesis and dissertation collections, electronic journal
management systems, citation management systems for funding agencies, etc.
In order to support this emerging trend, there is a desperate need for
appropriate technology - technology that can adapt to changing and
different needs, resources and scales of operation that can be found across
the various institutions and archives in Africa.
This project aims to investigate techniques, models and tools for the
management of large quantities of data using scalable clusters of
off-the-shelf computers. There has already been much work done to
demonstrate that digital libraries can be built out of medium-sized
components (see previous NRF-funded Flexible Digital Libraries project, and
US-NSF-funded OCKHAM project) - this work seeks to look into how these
medium-sized components can be distributed across computers in a dynamic
local network so that the size of the data can scale with the number of
machines, thus meeting the changing needs of a society where digital library
technology is slowly gaining acceptance.
ResourcesTeam Membershussein, Mayumbo Nyirenda, Muammar Omar Publications
Mayumbo Nyirenda, and H. Suleman (2008),
"X-Switch: A Secure, Multi-User,
Language-Independent Web Application Server", in Proceedings of
CARI'08, 28-30 October 2008, Rabat, Morrocco.
Ndapandula Nakashole, H. Suleman
and Calvin Pedzai (2007), "Dynamic Role Allocation for
Small Search Engine Clusters", In Barnard, Lynette and Reinhard A Botha (eds):
Proceedings of Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of
Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT 2007), Port
Alfred, South Africa. Available
http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000431/01/dynamic_role.pdf
Suleman, H. (2007). "Managing Digital Library Components", in Proceedings
of Second Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries, 20 September,
Budapest, Hungary. Available
http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000432/01/foundations_2007_paper.pdf
Suleman, H. (2007). "Digital Libraries Without Databases: The Bleek and
Lloyd Collection", In Kovacs, Laszlo, Norbert Fuhr and Carlo Meghini (eds):
Proceedings of Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries,
11th European Conference (ECDL 2007), pp. 392-403, 16-19 September, Budapest,
Hungary. Available
http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000433/01/ecdl_2007_dlwd.pdf
Suleman, H. (2007). "in-Browser Digital Library Services",
In Kovacs, Laszlo, Norbert Fuhr and Carlo Meghini (eds):
Proceedings of Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries,
11th European Conference (ECDL 2007), pp. 462-465, 16-19 September, Budapest,
Hungary. Available
http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000434/01/ecdl_2007_ajax.pdf
Suleman, H. (2006). "Parallelising Harvesting", in S. Sugimoto,
J. Hunter, A. Rauber and A. Morishima (eds): Proceedings
of 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2006),
27-30 November, Tokyo, Japan, Springer-Verlag, pp. 81-90.
ISSN: 0302-9743. ISBN: 978-3-540-49375-4. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000328/01/icadl_2006_oaihpc.pdf
Muammar Omar, and H. Suleman (2006).
"Component-based digital library
scalability using cluster computing", in P. A. van Brakel (ed):
Proceedings of 8th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications,
5-8 September, Bloemfontein, Cape Peninsula of Technology, pp. 1-18.
ISBN: 978-0-620-37309-8. Available http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000324/01/Component-based_Digital_Library_scalability_using_Cluster_Computing.pdf
Suleman, H., Christopher Parker
and Muammar Omar (2008),
Lightweight Component-Based Scalability,
International Journal on Digital Libraries,
Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 115-128, Springer.
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