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-OpenIsis joined the X. regional meeting of CDS/ISIS distributors and experts
-in Latin America and the Caribbean, Feb. 3.-5. in la Havana, Cuba.
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-
-* Overview
-
-Among the more than 50 participants where Davide Storti,
-chief CDS/ISIS manager in UNESCO HQ Paris,
-Adalberto Tardelli, senior developer at BIREME,
-and known expert Ernesto Spinak from Uruguay.
-
-Davide announced that there are new developments underway
-to build a much advanced successor of WinISIS,
-which shall finally be released under some open source license.
-OpenIsis was welcomed in the "CDS/ISIS family"
-and possibly may make some contributions to further developments.
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-
-* Presentations
-
-Just to pick a few among a couple of interesting speeches:
-- Adalberto explained how BIREME is focussing their next software generation
- on XML storage to enhance, for example, the
-> http://www.scielo.org/ SCIELO platform.
-- Ernesto introduced IsisMarc, a windows app for data entry with strong
- support for any MARC standard, including the highly complex MARC21.
-- Elysio Mira Soares from Brasil developed the library automation system
-> http://www.elysio.com.br/eng_index.htm PHL
- , which is under GPL, but users are asked to contribute their contents
- to a pool.
-- A group of Cuban developers from INFOMED are working on CLABEL
- (Catálogo en linea para automatizar bibliotecas electrónicas),
- which shall be a KOHA replacement based on CDS/ISIS (under GPL, of course),
- while their colleagues are developing
-> http://webservices.sld.cu/test/isisearch/ XML-RPC interfaces for ISIS.
-- Paulo Cattelan from Porto Alegre presented the ISIS
- information and helpdesk system
-> http://www.oraculo.inf.br/ ORACULO.
-- From Argentina we saw the LGPLd
-> http://www.bl.fcen.uba.ar/openopac.php OpenOPAC.
-
-OpenIsis prepared bilingual (english/espanol) papers on
-> Cuba state and roadmap of our development
-and
-> CubaPHP the OpenIsis PHP extension
-by Braulio.
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