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ISIS FRBR Prototype Application version 2

Posted by: William Denton, 29 July 2008 12:10 pm
Categories: Implementations

Roberto Sturman sent this to the FRBR mailing list this morning:

The IFPA2 (ISIS FRBR Prototype Application - ver. 2) is now online:

http://pclib3.ts.infn.it:8080/ifpa2/

(username/password for dataentry: ifpa2/demo2)

The new implementation of the prototype is based on WebLis
(http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16841&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html).

Its main features are:

  • new database design: relationships are managed in dedicated records, one relationship per record;
  • unlimited no. of relationships for each Entity (within the database capability);
  • creation of Entities/Relationships by hyperlinks; picklist assisted relationship management;
  • WEB based interface for all functions, data entry included;
  • pseudo-tree view of FRBR bibliographic “towers”

Please note as the user interface design is still in fluctuation and the application has still many bugs, inconsistencies, so it is not yet available for download. I hope to make it downloadable shortly.