--- "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Caveat: This posting might be useful mainly to
> listers from Universities
> and Colleges in India who have participated
> in the INFLIBNET
> (Information and Library Network) of the
> UGC (Universities
> Grants Commission). Others might find it, only of
> peripheral
> interest.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Libraries attached to academic institutions who
> have been using
> the CDS/ISIS software suite for textual searches on
> DOS and Windows
> (WINISIS) might be happy to know that a replacement
> is (or has been for
> some time) at hand: WWWISIS (http://www.bireme.br)
> runs on Linux and can
> (almost?) do everything that CDS/ISIS could do. Over
> the past week, we
> have developed all html screens and scripts in the
> ISIS formatting
> language to invert, index, search and update an
> ISO-2709 interchange
> format database. By the way, we by no means are the
> first to do it.
>
> The advantage (IMHO) of WWWISIS over CDS/ISIS or
> WINISIS is:
>
> 1) One can now offer library catalogue search and
> COPSAT
> abstract search services over a network. WWWISIS
> integrates
> beatufully with Apache+CGI.
>
> 2) The cruddy and severely unforgiving CDS/ISIS
> data-entry forms
> can be replaced by their friendlier HTML
> counterparts.
>
> 3) WWWISIS is free. Linux is Free. And we dont
> charge for help ;).
> Universities and Colleges with ISO-2709
> (UNESCO-3.07) databases
> of their holdings and in particular, subscribers
> of the
> excellent COPSAT (an abstracting service offered
> by the NCSI)
> who were considering upward migration to costly
> library
> mangement software like Libsys might find this
> an exciting
> option.
>
> In case you or your institution uses CDS/ISIS or
> subscribes to COPSAT and
> would like to know more about this, do write to me
> and we would be happy
> to share our eperiences.
>
> Regards
>
> Gurunandan
>
>
>
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