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Publication date: 1 May 1995

Gabriel Stergiou and Stefka Kaloyanova

This paper discusses the experience gained in the application of Micro‐CDS/ISIS as authoring software and HEURISKO as a user search interface for in‐house production of CDROMs at…

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This paper discusses the experience gained in the application of Micro‐CDS/ISIS as authoring software and HEURISKO as a user search interface for in‐house production of CDROMs at FAO. It identifies the functions requiring improvement and some additional features that would make retrieval more user‐friendly. Most of these improvements, taking also into consideration feedback from users, were subsequently implemented resulting in a new version of HEURISKO. The paper supports the suitability of Micro‐CDS/ISIS and the new HEURISKO for low‐cost production and distribution of CDROMs, particularly for small and medium size databases. It invites sharing of experience with other CDROM producers using p‐5Xthe same software in view of the further improvement of HEURISKO. Although the forthcoming Micro‐CDS/ISIS Windows version will provide an alternative user search interface, HEURISKO will still be needed for DOS users

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The Electronic Library, vol. 13 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 1 June 1991

Stefka Kaloyanova

The basic objectives of the Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CINTI) are to supply and handle documents and to promote their efficient use by members of…

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The basic objectives of the Central Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CINTI) are to supply and handle documents and to promote their efficient use by members of the STI community in Bulgaria. To achieve these objectives, CINTI has recourse to source and reference documents, which are maintained, in the case of source material, at the Central Scientific and Technical Library (CSTL) as either hardcopy or microfiche, and for reference documents in machine‐readable form in databases.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 9 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 6 June 2008

Stefka Kaloyanova, Gian Luigi Betti, Francesco Castellani and Johannes Keizer

The main purpose of this paper is to present the work recently carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Associazione…

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Purpose

The main purpose of this paper is to present the work recently carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Associazione per la documentazione le biblioteche e gli archivi (DBA) in Italy to make web CDS/ISIS‐based applications compliant with the OAI‐PMH. CDS/ISIS is an Integrated Storage and Information Retrieval System of Unesco, which is widely used especially in Latin America and Africa. There are hundreds of CDS/ISIS‐based application systems managing bibliographical reference, ensuring high quality content through the use of built‐in authority files, data entry guidelines and validations. It also allows for metadata export in many different formats.

Design/methodology/approach

The methodology adopted included study, analysis and evaluation of three existing solutions for exposing metadata from the CDS/ISIS database repositories to the OAI framework.

Findings

The implementation did not include the development of automatic procedures for incremental harvesting from CDS/ISIS databases nor the normalization of the harvested data. However, a lot of experience in implementation of OAI was gained which will be useful for future development of non‐CDS/ISIS systems.

Research limitations/implications

The research and development work demonstrates the importance and implications of this work for the whole CDS/ISIS community and specifically for the participating centres from the AGRIS network.

Originality/value

It proposes an open source, easily parametrizable plug‐in tool, which can be adapted to expose metadata from a general structure CDS/ISIS database using the OAI‐PMH protocol. This work assures that semantically rich metadata for agricultural science and research publications based on the “AGRIS Application Profile” can be handled by the OAI protocol. This in turn allows for further creation of additional services based on the exchange of knowledge on agricultural science and technology publications world‐wide.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 26 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 8 August 2008

Imma Subirats, Irene Onyancha, Gauri Salokhe, Stefka Kaloyanova, Stefano Anibaldi and Johannes Keizer

The purpose of this paper is to explore addressing the accessibility, availability and interoperability issues of exchanging agricultural research output by means of the AGRIS…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore addressing the accessibility, availability and interoperability issues of exchanging agricultural research output by means of the AGRIS application profile – an exchange metadata standard – and controlled vocabularies or subject‐specific knowledge organisation systems.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on an analysis of the open access (OA) publishing model and the open archives initiative (OAI), the authors share their proposal for the architecture for open archive networks in agricultural sciences and technology.

Findings

The lack of adequate information exchange possibilities between researchers in food and agricultural sciences represents a significant weakness, limiting the research system to properly help address the issues of agricultural development. The OA publishing model promotes the availability of content online, including grey literature, which is not available through commercial distribution channels but which significantly contributes to agricultural research and development. The new architecture proposed in this paper is based on these OA and OAI paradigms and has three components: the creation of content with agreed content description standards, the harvesting of the content using common exchange standards and the value‐added services provided to the users using the exchanged standard content.

Originality/value

The paper presents how the agricultural sciences and technology community can adopt the OA model and OAI tools. The paper will be useful to information professionals who are planning to improve the accessibility and interoperability of the agricultural research produced in their institution by the creation of institutional repositories.

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Online Information Review, vol. 32 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1468-4527

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Publication date: 20 November 2007

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The Electronic Library, vol. 25 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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