The ABCD system / ISIS), is commented on by the experts in the city of Buenos Aires

The co-operative development of the system and stop the Government from the library and Documentation Centres) in the family of ISIS, the software has received a boost outstanding following the completion of the second workshop of the technical evaluation, which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between September 1 and September 4, 2009. The event was held with the participation of specialists from the Latin America, and Europe. The first workshop was held in Brussels, Belgium, from the 17th to the 27th of march 2009 – (please go to the subject).

ABCD is a system that is focused on the automation online on the Web of the processes, workflows, functions, products, services and information to the libraries, documentation and information centers. The SOURCES and belongs to the family of the ISIS of the software, for the storage and retrieval of textual information is structured, with a focus on sources, bibliography, and related services. It is multi-lingual, widespread, and it is configurable, with the ability to cater to the automation of all types of library and documentation centres.

The development, maintenance and distribution to make the SOURCES follow, is a free software and open source, under the auspices of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean centre on Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO), supported by a Consortium of the Universities in Flanders (VLIR/UOS – Flemish-University co-operation for Development), in the context of the project, Docbiblas (Development and capacity-building in the ISIS-Based Systems for the Automation of library), and in the community to the ISIS-users and developers alike. The project relies on the volunteer efforts of more than 40 professionals from 18 countries, and the users of the software, or ISIS, which has been originally designed and developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the early 60’s, and later by the United Nations Educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO). In the first decade of the 80’s, the BIREME, began to cooperate closely with UNESCO on the development of a version of an ISIS, to personal computers, with emphasis on the development of the library, ENTERING , and of systems (ISIS) to the world wide Web.

The ABCD system integrates with apps for the on-line automation of functions for the creation and management of databases of open standards for interoperability on the web and cataloging the documents of a collection, you can import and export the records and acquisitions, such as modules, basic and advanced, loans, accounting, control of the serial publications of the commission, the creation, configuration, and management of the sites in the online catalog, a public online search engine enhanced.

The project’s SOURCES, was presented to the public for the first time, at the time of making the 8th Congress of the Regional Science in Health care (CRICS8), in Rio de Janeiro, at the end of September 2008. In the proposed version 0.1 has been adopted by more than 150 participants, features, representing 31 countries around the world. The next step was the publication of the BIREME, and no end of August 2009, version 0.8.5.

In order to analyse the state of the system, starting with the release in August, a BIREME) held a workshop for specialists in Argentina, which has been led by the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) of Argentina for the institution, where it was held for the first release of the world of the Micro-Isis-1.0 in 1985, with the co-operation of the other institutions on a national and international level.

A workshop was concluded with recommendations on courses of action and priorities for development, with the goal being to get to version 1.0 (beta), at the end of October. It is expected that the full version of 1.0 will be released in December of 2009. The current version of the project SOURCES and can be accessed here

At the sight of Abel L. Packer, the Director of the BIREME, is the quality of the results that characterize a realization of the workshop on the evaluation of information SOURCES, hosted by the CNEA, Buenos Aires, which represents a significant breakthrough in the development of co-operative network, of the Family of ISIS is the Software that the vhl has been engaged in over the past few years. It argues that the adoption of free software and open source, however, the complexities involved and will be even stronger, as part of the make, ISIS is the product-oriented approach to development. The SOURCES, according to the assessment of experts, both in the workshop, Brussels, and Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, is structured as a system of reference, is a free software for automation of libraries and documentation centres of any size and condition of the infrastructure, the technology, information, and connectivity.

The content and outcomes of the workshop

A workshop on the evaluation of information SOURCES, hosted by CNEA in the headquarters of the Instituto Nacional de la Administración Pública (INAP) in the city of Buenos Aires, which had, in co-ordination with participation of experts in the ISIS – Ernesto Spinak, Guild-Ascencio, and it is an impossible task Marmonti, Latin America, and Egbert de Smet, a representative VLIR//USE Docbiblas (Belgium).

We have worked for many years with no traditional programming, the experience of co-operative development for the software is free and open software, it has been an amazing place and very moving. Their professionalism and commitment to professional, with more than 40 partners in all over the world have taken each of their part of this work is to convert the wave to spread, and it brings optimism, the search team as it is possible to implement ambitious projects, said Ernesto.

The workshop was held with the active participation of the 24 invited speakers, who are selected on the basis of their technical competence, representing the university and the government of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The BIREME was represented by Mark Mori e Jussara de Oliveira, systems analysts in the management of Production and Sources of Information (PFI). Watch all of the participants in the Wiki to do ABCD.

A workshop was in debt service between the presentation of all of the modules that make the SOURCES, and discussion about the improvements and fixes in future implementations. It was very important to see how one part very active in the community, ISIS is looking at the SOURCES in its current stage of development, and their expectations, concerns, and contributions to, shared Standards.

Prior to the activities, face-to-face sessions were held online. The 24 experts were divided into nine working groups, research, and testing, and, under the guidance of the facilitators conducted the stress tests, and evaluation functions are selected. This analysis resulted in a report of five pages for each subject area, and were submitted for review, and compilation. From this report, have been developed, such as the activities of the workshop.

The workshop allowed us all to have a broad overview of the features that make the SOURCES, in addition to the numerous application possibilities for all your components, has Jussara.

The staff of the BIREME, they also pointed out the importance of, and the performance of the strategy of the institution and on the development of SOURCES, focusing on how the contributions and experiences are shared in an event like this, so they aim to the expected results of the project.