Transcript CDS/ISIS
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: 1. Prepare your Web application locally 2. Test it locally (even over your LAN) 3. 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: 1. 2. 3. 4. 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: Excel Access CDS/ISIS 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