{"id":347,"date":"2021-04-03T02:46:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndltd.vt.domains\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:08:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:08:57","slug":"lighton-phiri","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ndltd.org\/directory\/volunteers\/lighton-phiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighton Phiri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/ndltd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Lighton_Phiri.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ndltd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Lighton_Phiri.jpg 320w, https:\/\/ndltd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Lighton_Phiri-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ndltd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Lighton_Phiri-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lighton Phiri is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Library and Information Science (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/lis.unza.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lis.unza.zm<\/a>) at the University of Zambia (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unza.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.unza.zm<\/a>). He was awarded a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town, where he was affiliated with the Digital Libraries Laboratory (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.cs.uct.ac.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dl.cs.uct.ac.za<\/a>). His broad research interests lie within the areas of Computer Science Education, Digital Libraries, Technology-Enhanced Learning and Data Mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the most recent past, Lighton contributed towards the development of the ETD Portal software (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lightonphiri\/etdportal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/lightonphiri\/etdportal<\/a>), which is currently used to host the NDLTD Union Catalog (<a href=\"http:\/\/union.ndltd.org\/portal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/union.ndltd.org\/portal<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>URL 1: http\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/lightonphiri.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lightonphiri.org<\/a><br>URL 2:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lis.unza.zm\/~lightonphiri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/lis.unza.zm\/~lightonphiri<\/a><a href=\"mailto:lighton.phiri@unza.zm\">lighton.phiri@unza.zm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lighton Phiri is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Library and Information Science (http:\/\/lis.unza.zm) at the University of Zambia (https:\/\/www.unza.zm). 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