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Although the new J-ISIS software from UNESCO, based on Berkeley DB and Lucene technology, complies with some of the technical requirements as seen necessary for digital library applications, an easy way of building collections so far was not available. The purpose of this paper is to give a report on some necessary DL technological requirements, such as the capability to deal with any metadata structure and alphabets and full-text indexing of documents of any length, and how J-ISIS can deal with these, as well as on the production of the DL interface for digital library applications based on Tika technology.

A brief comparison is made with a well-established DL software, i.e. Greenstone Digital Library, regarding the concepts and performance.

While using a quite different architecture and approach, the test shows that J-ISIS can process the documents faster and with more economical storage efficiency, inviting UNESCO to invest more into it in order to allow incorporation of some more advanced features like Greenstone's capability to process intra-document segments and images, but also to allow for new exciting features for digital libraries such as interactivity.

The research is based on the J-ISIS prototype implementation of digital library technology and could only be tested on a limited set of documents.

Librarians interested in building digital library collections, esp. when doing this integrated with their library systems and catalogs, have a viable new option now within the FOSS-market.

This is the first description on J-ISIS for digital libraries.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility to use J‐ISIS software for digital libraries (DL), and to identify/implement the necessary software elements.

The approach was three‐fold: first, testing the required features for DL, e.g. large‐file handling capabilities, full‐text indexing, UNICODE; second, implementing into the existing code an easy interface to build collections, respecting the ISIS‐philosophy of freedom of structure (e.g. integration into and creation of any meta‐data set); and third, performing preliminary performance tests comparing to the Greenstone software.

The claims of large‐file handling, UNICODE and full‐text searching were confirmed, however some JAVA code had to be adjusted for reaching the goals re document sizes and speed. The interface is based on existing data‐entry worksheets: when a DL field is recognized, a special icon allowing uploading of the document is shown, the text is extracted (using Apache Tika) and normal storage and indexing is applied while the ISIS‐PFT creates the URL to the original document. All this was found to work very fast in a 200 documents test, in fact faster than GSDL, with especially more efficiency in storage space.

The paper shows that UNESCO's ISIS‐software users have now the possibility to use known technology for DL purposes, without needing to learn a new software. When no end‐user submission or large batch‐processing of documents is needed, this solution is quite practical, esp. for smaller libraries. This project is the first to experiment with J‐ISIS for DL purposes and hopes to raise interest in the acceptance of this new ISIS‐generation.

This paper aims to outline the migration of outdated computerized documentation system/integrated set for information systems (CDS/ISIS) database in to fully functional Web-based Automatización de Bibliotecas y Centros de Documentación (ABCD) integrated library system (ILS), which is derived from the the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO) CDS/ISIS software technology.

The existing integrated set for information systems (ISIS) tags were needed to be remapped as per the tag of MARC-like or structured bibliographic format database by editing integrated set for information systems print formats. Moreover, a sequence of tasks was required to complete the whole process. The major procedures were accomplished as exporting ISIS data into .iso format, creating ABCD database and uploading .iso file into the new database. The next part was configuration and connection with the Web interface after editing PFT.

CDS/ISIS users who have data in the international organization for standardization format on old versions of CDS/ISIS software applications now have the opportunity to migrate their data into the new application. The detailed process had been outlined not an only successful method of migrating outdated valuable records, also creation of ABCD database.

This paper may help the users of CDS/ISIS or WinISIS to migrate for ABCD and not to expire or give up their valuable data. This is one of the best ways to migrate ISIS data to ABCD with proven functionality. A specific aim of Automatización de Bibliotecas y Centros de Documentación Integrated Library System is to offer a tool for librarians, rather than information communications technology technicians, which is achieved by taking library and information science principles.