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CREATING NATIONAL NODES OF THE BIOSAFETY CLEARING-HOUSE CANADIAN PROPOSAL

This proposal outlines a generic solution for countries to establish national nodes of the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH). With a focus on scalability and compatibility with the Central Portal, Canada offers applications through an UNEP-GEF project to streamline data management and resources for countries lacking the capacity to develop their own systems.

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CREATING NATIONAL NODES OF THE BIOSAFETY CLEARING-HOUSE CANADIAN PROPOSAL

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  1. CREATING NATIONAL NODES OF THE BIOSAFETY CLEARING-HOUSECANADIAN PROPOSAL Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop 28-29 May 2005 Montreal, Canada

  2. CURRENT SITUATION • Many countries would like a national node of the BCH. • Countries may have the IT/IM capacity to securely host applications. • Countries do not have the resources or time to develop the necessary applications.

  3. POTENTIAL SOLUTION • Generic system for creating national nodes. • Based on applications developed for CNBCH. • CNBCH developed with scalability, reuse and capacity development in mind. • Incremental work needed to make it generic. • Canada offering generic applications for national BCH nodes through UNEP-GEF project.

  4. NATIONAL NODE FEATURES • National subset of the BCH data • single window for a country’s records on the Central Portal • Additional national context • information not possible through central portal • Interoperable with Central Portal • compatibility of records • same overall look and feel • same general approach to functions • Accommodate domestic requirements • ownership of records • multiple languages • specific graphics, links, disclaimers, etc.

  5. COMPONENTS • Metadata entry tool • Relational database • Search engine • Web services • Web site • Web site management tool

  6. COMPONENTS • Metadata entry tool • Relational database  • Search engine  • Web services • Web site • Web site management tool

  7. TECHNICAL APPROACH • Supports multiple languages. • Default configuration is English. • Platform independent, open-source. • Developed using Java, XML, XSLT, SOAP.

  8. CONTENT MANAGEMENT • Static content created through a Web page. • Common formats currently supported: • Decisions under 11.1 • Competent National Authority • Laws and Regulations • Regional and International Agreement • National Focal Point • Other Decisions • Bibliographic Information • Organizations (Relevant Web sites)

  9. CONTENT MANAGEMENT • Records published to Web site with Web service. • Can be used with any entry tool (Canadian, Management Centre, US or Swiss). • Web service supports add, update & delete functions. • Documents digitally signed.

  10. FEATURES • Customizable look and feel: • resolution • images • cascading stylesheet • Customizable header and sidebar. • Footer information extracted from XML document.

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