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Saul Kripke (1980, 112–4) has claimed that there are necessary connections between material things and their material origins. His presentation of such necessity of origin theses included two paradigmatic examples: that it is impossible for a particular table to have been constructed from any hunk of matter other than that from which it was actually constructed, or for a particular human being ...

A few years ago a portal for bachelor and master theses from Flemish university colleges was established by means of the open source repository software DoKS. At present approximately 3500 theses from Flemish university colleges are available online. The growing use of the portal has led to a new communication stream that requires supervision and maintenance. Social software components amongst ...

We present Zeus, an environment designed to aid in the creation of a repository of digital theses. Zeus is an asynchronous cooperative toolset which allows the revision and annotation of digital theses over the Internet. With Zeus, students working on their theses (and their academic committees) are provided with a highly personalizable environment which simplifies the process of reviewing elec...