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CDS/ISIS. Recent developments. Clearing House Workshop 2003 – Patrick Huby, Davide Storti. Overview. Database publishing (Web and CD - Rom) Data Exchange Arabic and Cyrillic support CDS/ISIS Web page. Clearing House Workshop 2003. Database publishing.
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CDS/ISIS Recent developments Clearing House Workshop 2003 – Patrick Huby, Davide Storti
Overview • Database publishing (Web and CD-Rom) • Data Exchange • Arabic and Cyrillic support • CDS/ISIS Web page Clearing House Workshop 2003
Database publishing • Problem: how to make available my database on the Web or on a CD? • Solution:GENISIS • Creates query forms assisted by an authoring tool • Completely customizable • No in-depth knowledge of CDS/ISIS needed • Generated applications will run on Unix, Linux and Windows Web servers Clearing House Workshop 2003
Database publishing GENISIS Web (vers. 3.0) • Creates the query form (with access to fields indexes) • Displays the results • Displays record’s details and links to other records or resources Clearing House Workshop 2003
Database publishing • The development phases of GENISIS Web: • Prepare your Web application locally • Test it locally (even over your LAN) • Export to your Internet Server Clearing House Workshop 2003
Database publishing • 14 databases implemented with GenIsis on our web site: http://databases.unesco.org/aidsimpact (IIPE) http://databases.unesco.org/bioethics/wwwi32.exe/[in=interro.in]/ (Social Sciences) http://databases.unesco.org/dare (Social Sciences) http://databases.unesco.org/education (Education) http://databases.unesco.org/etico (IIPE) http://databases.unesco.org/fileh/wwwi32.exe/[in=interro.in]/ (Social Sciences) http://databases.unesco.org/gcbeh/aidp1/form.htm (IBE) http://databases.unesco.org/ibe (IBE) http://databases.unesco.org/icomos (ICOMOS) http://databases.unesco.org/migration/form.shtml (Social Sciences) http://databases.unesco.org/peace/wwwi32.exe/[in=interro.in]/ (Social Sciences) http://databases.unesco.org/periodicals/form.shtml (Social Sciences) http://databases.unesco.org/poverty/form.shtml (Social Sciences) http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus (Library) Clearing House Workshop 2003
Database publishing • GENISIS CD works the same way: • Prepare your CD interface locally • Test on your computer • Finalize the application before recording • Record the CD-Rom (using appropriate software) Clearing House Workshop 2003
Data Exchange • A number of tools make it possible to transfer data from and to CDS/ISIS. • For example: CDS/ISIS Excel Access MySQL XML ISO2709 Clearing House Workshop 2003
Data Exchange From CDS/ISIS to other formats: • Using the CDS/ISIS formatting language, it is possible to export to widely recognized ASCII formats (i.e. CSV, TXT, HTML, XML) • Winisis (exports to: ISO2709 [type1] and XML) • Isis2XML (exports to XML) • ImpExp2709 (exports to ISO2709 type1, 2, 3 and 4) Clearing House Workshop 2003
Data Exchange From other software to CDS/ISIS: • Winisis (imports from ISO2709 [type1]) • XML2Isis (imports from XML files) • ImpExp2709 (imports from ISO2709 types1, 2, 3 and 4) • IsisAscii (imports from ASCII delimited or tagged files: CSV, TXT) Clearing House Workshop 2003