Dear all, It was so nice meeting you in Den Haag. :)
Here you can find the links to the website of NOSA<http://www.nosa.com/nosaweb/>company (the company that I mentioned in the meeting) and the English user interface of their current digital system which is called Simorgh<http://simorgh.nosa.com/simwebclt/WebAccess/SimWebPortal.dll>. Since the website is in Farsi, I have provided the following information about this company. *Iran Software & Hardware Co. (NOSA) <http://www.nosa.com/nosaweb/>* with an experience of 25 years, provides software applications and support to businesses of all sizes located in Iran. Since its founding in 1988, NOSA has engaged in the development and distribution of a range of integrated business software, library systems and related products designed to meet the needs of public, private and not-for-profit organizations in the region. After the first series of NOSA library soft wares in 1988, with the advent of the internet second generation of this product developed in 1997 which prepare the users with library sources search via internet. Following an increase in the number of libraries and information centers, by 2002, NOSA represented its third group of library soft wares called "SIMORGH" in respond to the users need to real-time integrated search in many libraries and information centers. SIMORGH Unified Network <http://simorgh.nosa.com/simwebclt/WebAccess/SimWebPortal.dll?LANG=2>is an online searchable collection of all SIMORGH libraries with member and guest access controls for each member library . SIMORGH can link libraries and data sources to provide unified access through one portal and used as a repository of digital documents. With arising needs of scholars to use digital sources for research and the desire of publishers and libraries to safely share such copyrighted sources online, NOSA is initiating numerous services in Iran, one of them is *"NOSA BOOKS" <http://www.nosabooks.com/WebUI/Home.aspx>* which is too similar to Google books service. NOSA Project uses an artificial intelligent cloud computing server called Brain Center to match available metadata and document information across all of SIMORGH network of 200+ libraries and intelligently match them with reference libraries such as Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine and National Library of Iran. I hope their new system called "Ghoghnoos" will release soon. (As I told in the meeting, for completing one part of their project they are waiting for FRBRoo version 2) Best regards, Maliheh
