Advanced Systems Based on Micro CDS/ISIS

The Institute for Computer and Information Engineering has developed a technology allowing one for developing advanced information systems based on the Micro CDS/ISIS engine.

On top of Micro CDS/ISIS we have implemented a set of advanced software tools which enable us to, inter alia,:

• support the Entity-Relationship Data Model;
  

• define local and global on-line validation of data, which provides a robust syntactic and semantic control of data, and facilitates the process of data input/update and verification;

• define easy access to specific lookup tables, thesauri and/or dictionaries during data entry/update process in order to select relevant terms from the table and transfer them to specified fields. Even a structured thesaurus may be browsed to locate proper descriptors while indexing; emulate network/graph data models (within ISIS) by implementing automatically linkages between various types of records; establish a user/friendly search/browse/display interface;

• establish a general purpose pull-down menu system for Micro CDS/ISIS applications, equipped with HELP facilities, bulletin boards, tutorials, etc.;

• prepare a sophisticated printed output in RTF, HTML, LATEX and other formats form from a Micro CDS/ISIS database.

The software is available for both stand alone and LAN applications. Search and Browse functions are available under UNIX and can be used for telneting. Those tools have been used by us in the development of a number of products for UN agencies (UNIDO, UNESCO, UNEP, FAO), OeFSE in Austria, Naturhistorische Museum in Vienna and many others.

For more information please contact us.