Abstract:
Globalization has made the people around the world inter connected. Technology has
become an increasing a vital component in the service sector today. The recent
developments oftechnology have formed innovative concepts and environment in Sri
Lanka. As a result of the development of the technology, one of the latest concepts
merges to the National Archives Department of Sri Lanka. This project is about
developing an e-commerce website with Content Management System (CMS) and
advance forum for National Archives Department of Sri Lanka to trade their archives
online and convert their current manual service process to computerized online
service. It provides the users with a catalogue of different archives content available
for purchase in the store and also users can request and purchase many services. There
are many disadvantages of the current paper based system. Some of them are, the
customers need to visit at least two times to the premises to get archival, time
consuming, very low data share ability and security papers can be misplaced and will
not be able to access the data.
The key objective of this project is to develop a proper e-commerce system with
content manage system to help National Archives Department of Sri Lanka for
convert current manual paper based system in to a computerized major proportions of
their archives management activities and normal day to day activities. In order to
develop content management system with an e-commerce system and advance forum
system, a number of technologies must be studies and understood. This proposed
system was developed using several free open source technology. Drupal was used to
develop the CMS along with PHP and MySQL database management system. The
proposed system will be running on an Apache web server. The proposed computer
based solution is expected to be highly functional and user friendly enabling the staff
ofNational Archives Department of Sri Lanka to perform well. The proposed system
should eliminate data redundancy, data inconsistency. The proposed solution also
improves employer abilities, employer skills, working efficiency, security and
achieves the aspired targets. This website is expected to be attractive and be simple
enough to understand by an average user
