TY - GEN
T1 - Design, development and testing an academic repository
AU - Handeli, Kevin M.
AU - Robila, Stefan A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/6/8
Y1 - 2018/6/8
N2 - Technological advances, established best web development practices, and modern design of the 21st century have provided students, professors, researchers, etc., quasi-effortless access to academic documents encompassed within cleaner user interface and a higher level of usability. Access to and rigorous management of research publication and products is also mandated by funding agencies. Given these characteristics, we have developed an academic repository to maintain the student projects in a typical academic department. A repository of this nature is comprised of two major components: the database and the user interface. The key focus is to provide secure access to research materials (e.g. Master's projects and the like), similar to that of a community or university library's online catalogs, while sustaining a keen eye for contemporary front-end design. In addition to providing access to documentation, this repository uses collected data to present various citation styles, assisting users with easy composition of reference pages. Through a familiar search engine paradigm, information on projects, as well as the projects themselves, are discovered and queried using keywords and will be as if performing a Google search. The repository, while focused on single academic unit, can be expended as a campus wide tool, and provides an in house, easily expandable solution to off-the shelf repository solutions.
AB - Technological advances, established best web development practices, and modern design of the 21st century have provided students, professors, researchers, etc., quasi-effortless access to academic documents encompassed within cleaner user interface and a higher level of usability. Access to and rigorous management of research publication and products is also mandated by funding agencies. Given these characteristics, we have developed an academic repository to maintain the student projects in a typical academic department. A repository of this nature is comprised of two major components: the database and the user interface. The key focus is to provide secure access to research materials (e.g. Master's projects and the like), similar to that of a community or university library's online catalogs, while sustaining a keen eye for contemporary front-end design. In addition to providing access to documentation, this repository uses collected data to present various citation styles, assisting users with easy composition of reference pages. Through a familiar search engine paradigm, information on projects, as well as the projects themselves, are discovered and queried using keywords and will be as if performing a Google search. The repository, while focused on single academic unit, can be expended as a campus wide tool, and provides an in house, easily expandable solution to off-the shelf repository solutions.
KW - academic repository
KW - user experience
KW - user interface
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049922705&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LISAT.2018.8378017
DO - 10.1109/LISAT.2018.8378017
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049922705
T3 - 2018 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, LISAT 2018
SP - 1
EP - 7
BT - 2018 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, LISAT 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference, LISAT 2018
Y2 - 4 May 2018
ER -