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Subject: Guidelines ABCD - INVITATION
Latin American and Caribbean Center of Science in Health
Pan American Health Organization Health
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invitacion
ABCD Guidelines (Management of Libraries and Documentation Centres)
is with satisfaction that BIREME / PAHO / WHO is inviting everyone to the official launch ABCD system version 1.0 to be held on December 3, 2009, between 14:30 and 17:00 pm in the amphitheater of the Annex to the San Pablo Hospital, Rua Napoleão de Barros, 737 15 º andar, Vila Clementino , São Paulo, SP.
ABCD is a system oriented to the automation found in the Web of processes, workflows, functions, products and information services of libraries, documentation and information centers. ABCD is part of the ISIS family of software for information storage and retrieval of textual and structured information sources focused on literature and related services. It is multilingual, comprehensive and configurable, capable of addressing the automation of all types of libraries and documentation centers.
development, maintenance and distribution of the form ABCD remain free and open source software, under the coordination of BIREME, supported by the Consortium of Universities of Flanders (VLIR / UOS - Flemish University Development Co-Operation), in the context of Docbiblas project (Development of and Capacity Building in Library Automation Systems Based ISIS) and the community of users and developers of ISIS. The project has the support organization of over 60 professionals from 19 countries, users of the ISIS software, which was originally developed and maintained by the Organization International Labour Organization (ILO) in the 60s and later by ng the Organization United Nations Educational . Science and Culture (UNESCO). This release continues the cooperation of UNESCO BIREME from the 1980 development version of ISIS for microcomputers, highlighting the development of the library and systems CISIS ISIS Web.
ABCD system integrates online applications to automate functions for creating and managing databases with open protocols and interoperability Web , cataloging a collection of documents, import and export of records, procurement and loan two modules (basic and advanced), statistics, serials control, creation, management and configuration of sites online, online public catalog system Advanced search.
BIREME Director Abel L. Packer says that? positive results that characterize the project development represent a significant advance in developing cooperative network of Isis Family BIREME Software that has been promoting in recent years ?. Further states that full adoption of the mode of free and open software, despite the complexities involved, will strengthen even more the characteristics of the ISIS-oriented product development. ABCD as assessed by specialists, is projected as a reference system free software for the automation of libraries and documentation centers of different sizes and conditions for information technology infrastructure and connectivity.
BIREME published throughout the system development support WIKI / Trac on a site dedicated to the ABCD http://reddes.bvsaude.org/projects/abcd
on behalf of Ernesto Spinak
BIREME
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