Software de gestión de bibliotecas WebLIS gratis
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:59:31 +0200
Sender: "Foro para profesionales de bibliotecas y documentacion."
From: Tomas Baiget
Subject: WEBLIS: soft integrado de bibliotecas distribuido gratis por
Unesco
WEBLIS, an Integrated Library System based on CDS/ISIS, available free of charge from UNESCO and ICIE
"The results of the IFLA/FAIFE survey discussed in the World Report 2003 have once again disclosed the huge gaps and differences between the regions of the world -between the information haves and the information have-nots. There is a long way to go before countries, their libraries and their staff are suitably equipped and properly trained to meet the challenge of safeguarding their clients' full participation in the information and knowledge society.
With regards to Internet access, the most significant problems as defined by the contributing countries are a lack of computers with Internet access, financial barriers, and training of users and staff." IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), 2003.
In this sense, UNESCO intends to respond to a large demand from national and local libraries to help them in approaching and using library automation tools. WEBLIS is a Web based Library Integrated System based on CDS/ISIS. The system has been developed by the Institute for Computer and Information Engineering (ICIE), Poland, based on their experience in building library systems for international organizations such as FAO, IFAD and GTZ. WEBLIS runs through the WWW-ISIS engine, also developed by ICIE.
This achievement is also part of the efforts of UNESCO's Communication and information sector to encourage FOSS (Free and Open Source Software).
These tools are now distributed by UNESCO free of charge. Soon, the free ware WWW-ISIS engine will be distributed as Open Source software.
UNESCO's CDS/ISIS is one of the most widely used information retrieval software. Beside the main software, CDS/ISIS for Windows, a number of tools are available from UNESCO or other parties in many different languages. In 2004, UNESCO's Secretariat in Paris has satisfied more than 3,000 requests.
The current version of WEBLIS, available in English, consists of the following modules:
· Cataloguing system (books, papers from book, papers from journals, journals, miscellaneous -slides, photos, audio, video, etc.)
· OPAC -on-line public access catalogue- (basic and advanced search, history, saving queries function, and ISIS Query language facilities, thesaurus based search)
· LOAN module (hold/reserve, loan/ renew, automatic claiming by e-mail or a traditional mail in word form, urgent task lists)
· Statistical module (the main goal of the program is to generate statistical data aggregated from the CDS/ISIS databases).
WEBLIS is a freeware, implemented on WWW-ISIS as a platform. Its functionality and user interface is just "coded" by HTML, print formatting language, definition files and HTP files. If you upgrade the system by changing any of those files and would like to include your contribution to the system, please contact UNESCO.
UNESCO also distributes Greenstone digital library software for indexing full text document collections.
Más información:
http://snipurl.com/8ixr
Tomàs Baiget
Inst. Estadística de Catalunya (Idescat)
Barcelona, España
tomas@baiget.com
posted by · Tomàs Baiget @ 6:59 PM
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