EPrints Repository for the Malaysian Insurance Institute

We installed and set up EPrints on the cloud to create a digital library with a customized design, and a statistics plugin integration.

Category

Digital Repository

Time

1 Month

Stack

EPrints

Work

Set up, Customization

Team

4 Members

Customized EPrints for Information Managemen

The Malaysian Insurance Institute wanted a software solution for managing and sharing various media types for items like weekly news, books, journal articles,etc. Our goal was to make this happen by installing EPrints on their cloud as their digital repository software, and customizing the systems outlook as per their needs.

Areas of Improvement

UI Design
User Flow
Reporting
System Design
Security

Services Provided

Installation
Software Testing
Front-end Development
Training

The Problem

MII wanted new features, better accessibility, an improved review process, user login through existing university credentials, improved security, and integration with EBSCO.

No Digital Platform
Outdated System
Limited Features

The Solution

We customised a newly set up EPrints system, maintained the previous workflow, safely migrated all the data, added new features, and upgraded the security.

New Digital Repository
New System Design
Custom Features

Tools Used

Apache Jmeter
EPrints
Draw.io
Loom
Trello
MS Project

What we did

Modifying a Statistics Plugin
Upgrading to Digital

New features

Custom Design
New Item Types
Custom Plugins

How We Made this Project
a Success

Installing main software

This project was a cloud setup, and not on premise. That's why we installed EPrints on an Apache web server, and used MariaDB as the database solution due to the size of the project. Since EPrints is written in Perl, we set the library to Perl by installing Perl modules.

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Download & compile source code

Once we set up the cloud environment, the next step was to download the latest stable EPrints system source code, compiled it, and set up the mail server.

EPrints UI customization

The new system had to look and feel like an integral part of the Malaysian Insurance Institute's brand. We customized the EPrints UI to reflect their brand's guidelines, and visual style.

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Testing Methods

User Acceptance Testing
Performance
Testing
Stress
Testing
QA
Testing

Key Features

By using this functionality, the admin will be able to view all  user activities. Admins can view different types of statistics like monthly downloads, most downloaded items, top authors, users’ download records, etc.
To ease MII’s burden of uploading items one by one, we recommended the use of EPrints because of its ability to carry out bulk uploads. The client can now easily upload multiple items by uploading an XML file.
The EPrints system offers a variety of filters for users to browse and find items of interest. This gives the user more flexibility to find unique items in the system.

Highlights of this Project

9000 Visitor Count
4200 Items Downloaded
400 Media Items
15 Item Types

Leaders in Insurance Education

Founded in 1968, and with over 30,000 members, MII is a leader in providing education to insurance professionals in Malaysia. MII’s new EPrints solution - created by GR Tech - works as their digital library and serves all their stakeholders.

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Trine Nielsen
CEO of BoomBiz (formerly Base of Branding)
It was clear that they invested themselves into their software development process and most importantly, they stuck to their price estimates and delivered the system we requested on time.
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Trine Nielsen
CEO of BoomBiz (formerly Base of Branding)
It was clear that they invested themselves into their software development process and most importantly, they stuck to their price estimates and delivered the system we requested on time.
🇩🇰
Trine Nielsen
CEO of BoomBiz (formerly Base of Branding)
It was clear that they invested themselves into their software development process and most importantly, they stuck to their price estimates and delivered the system we requested on time.