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OpenIsis joined the X. regional meeting of CDS/ISIS distributors and experts |
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in Latin America and the Caribbean, Feb. 3.-5. in la Havana, Cuba. |
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* Overview |
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Among the more than 50 participants where Davide Storti, |
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chief CDS/ISIS manager in UNESCO HQ Paris, |
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Adalberto Tardelli, senior developer at BIREME, |
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and known expert Ernesto Spinak from Uruguay. |
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Davide announced that there are new developments underway |
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to build a much advanced successor of WinISIS, |
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which shall finally be released under some open source license. |
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OpenIsis was welcomed in the "CDS/ISIS family" |
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and possibly may make some contributions to further developments. |
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* Presentations |
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Just to pick a few among a couple of interesting speeches: |
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- Adalberto explained how BIREME is focussing their next software generation |
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on XML storage to enhance, for example, the |
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> http://www.scielo.org/ SCIELO platform. |
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- Ernesto introduced IsisMarc, a windows app for data entry with strong |
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support for any MARC standard, including the highly complex MARC21. |
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- Elysio Mira Soares from Brasil developed the library automation system |
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> http://www.elysio.com.br/eng_index.htm PHL |
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, which is under GPL, but users are asked to contribute their contents |
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to a pool. |
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- A group of Cuban developers from INFOMED are working on CLABEL |
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(Catálogo en linea para automatizar bibliotecas electrónicas), |
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which shall be a KOHA replacement based on CDS/ISIS (under GPL, of course), |
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while their colleagues are developing |
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> http://webservices.sld.cu/test/isisearch/ XML-RPC interfaces for ISIS. |
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- Paulo Cattelan from Porto Alegre presented the ISIS |
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information and helpdesk system |
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> http://www.oraculo.inf.br/ ORACULO. |
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- From Argentina we saw the LGPLd |
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> http://www.bl.fcen.uba.ar/openopac.php OpenOPAC. |
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OpenIsis prepared bilingual (english/espanol) papers on |
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> Cuba state and roadmap of our development |
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> CubaPHP the OpenIsis PHP extension |
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by Braulio. |