Hi Gurunandan,
This information is very useful to the library community.
Thanks a lot.
S N Krishna Rao
Project Co-ordinator
Mysore Library Network
C/o CFTRI, Mysore - 570 013
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> charles pinheiro
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 4:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LIH] Library Catalouging with Linux
>
>
>
> --- "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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