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IX Regional Meeting
of Latin America and Caribbean of CDS/ISIS Distributors
The IX Regional meeting of Distributors of Latin American and the Caribbean of CDS/ISIS and 1st Workshop: Natural Disasters Information Network for Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Buenos Aires Argentina at the Constituyentes Atomic Centre on October 23-25, 2000. There were over thirty participants including three Caribbean countries namely Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica at this meeting. The presentations were held in both Spanish and English. For the duration of the workshop two interpreters were available namely Ms. Judith Reyes Bermudez and Ana Maria Acompo.
After
the opening address, the main session for the day called the Presentation of
National Reports got underway. I read the national report for Jamaica entitled, Overview
of CDS/ISIS usage in Jamaica: 2000 update The report was well received.
This
session was followed by two presentations by Mr. Davide Storti from Unesco on
winisis1.4 beta and Java Isis 3.0. He
demonstrated some of the added features of winisis1.4. The Data Entry Worksheet
validation feature now works. The export option has the following added
features: -
The
print option has the following added
features;
Mr.
Storti commented that this version should be more stable than winisis v1.311,
the version currently being distributed. The
Java Isis, he explained, is a client-server application to manage CDS/ISIS
database through an internet/intranet connection by means of wwwisis package.
Demonstrations
were done by Bireme on applications they had developed, JISIS and WWWISIS. They
encouraged participants to log on their websites for other developments.
Demonstration of two additional databases designed in CDS/ISIS were also
presented. The one on natural disaster was part of a project in Latin America
and the Caribbean. This was presented by personnel from the Center for Disaster
Management and Humanitarian Assistance, Payson Centre, University of Tulane. I
contributed that there is a similar database being developed by CARDIN for the
Caribbean. I gave the undertaking to contact with Miss Lashley of CARDIN with
the view to initiating a dialogue between both organisations. NLJ had supplied
the software and designed the database used by CARDIN to organised the data
collected from the various islands. The other presentation dealt with
integrating museums within the new information society.
Wednesday
25,2000
Mr
Davide Storti made another presentation on the vision and future of
CDS/ISIS. He emphasized keeping the CDS/ISIS software vibrant. This he said can be
done by:
He
also acknowledged the developments of interfaces by different organisations; the
different dispersed activities happening in CDS/ISIS as well as problems
experience for example different languages. However he concluded by saying that
strong advertising and training is necessary for the continuity of CDS/ISIS.
There
were some suggestions for the
improvement of the meeting:
The
recommendations were done in Spanish but we were promised that English
translations would be sent to us.
I
brought back literature, diskettes and CDs on some of the presentations.
The Meeting was very useful and informative.
October 2000
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