WWW-ISIS: Interfacing Micro CDS/ISIS with WWW

The WWW-ISIS software has been implemented by ICIE and CC in cooperation with FAO, Waicent. WWW-ISIS can be used for publishing ISIS databases on WEB, as well as for building sophisticated web based information systems working on ISIS databases. The systems can use such WWW-ISIS functions like information retrieval, data entry (if needed, integrated with e-mail), access control and many other. In addition it can be used for preparing CD-ROMs with the ISIS database.

How to get the system

• demo (free)
• Take WEBLIS (free)

FUNCTIONS

The system can perform the following functions:

• Browse
• Search from a form
• Search with the ISIS query language (formulate a query in the form and use the option EDIT QUERY
• History - it keeps history queries and makes possible to use them in a new search formulation (try History button after sending few queries)
• Thesaurus based search
• Data entry (see also help for the ASFA system)

WHAT & WHERE TO SEE

The Institute for Computer and Information Engineering and "CC" Poland have developed a technology allowing one for dynamic interfacing Micro CDS/ISIS databases in WWW. You can see how works search at the sites:

http://www.oefse.at/oefse	(site at OeFSE)
http://faolex.fao.org/faolex	(site at FAO Legal database)
http://faolex.fao.org/fishery	(site at FAO, previously used to be a printed index)
http://www4.fao.org/faobib/	(site at FAO, FAO Catalogue)
http://library.iccrom.org/libris	ICCROM Library
http://weblis.unep.org/libcat/	UNEP, Nairobi
http://195.247.176.98/libcat/	IUCN, (Bonn)

Other users of WWW-ISIS: IFAD, IDLI, WFP, IRCT, Ministry of Economy in Argentina, and many AGRIS Regional/National Centers building AGRIS database (here you can see cross-database search), as well as some fifty ASFA Partners.

To see  data entry to the Catalogue, refer to

http://194.29.168.14/libcat/de.html (the version implemented for the UNEP Library)

login as: dba
and provide pasword: dba

Now you can play with entering new records or updating old ones. To see how you can use thesaurus for indexing move to page 6 of a worksheet and try BROWSE button of the subject descriptors field. Or click here to see some screens.

Please note that with WWW-ISIS you can  do data entry in any alphabet - Arabic, Russian, Greek, etc.

For Arabic see the first record from the BROWSE list  (see also the picture below)

DEMO 

Now the free demo for search and data entry functions is available:
 

Demo installation procedure - compressed	download here	size: 2 MB
System documentation - compressed zip file containing  3 WinWord 97 documents:  DE-Demo.doc Demo Installation  isis3wrefm.doc Reference Manual isis3w-tutor.doc tutorial for the search interface building	Documentation	size: 0,93 MB
HTML tutorials   -	search data entry	2,4 MB 1,5 MB

HOW TO INSTALL

• download the demo installation procedure and documentation (both zipped)
• decompress the files in a directory
• read carefully the document DE-Demo.DOC (contained in the downloaded documentation) and follow the instructions

For more information please contact us.