Course on Building Digital Libraries in Fortaleza, Brazil
17-02-2005 (Montevideo)
Training in methodologies for planning digital libraries and the use of free software for their creation will be provided from 21 to 25 February 2005 in Fortaleza, Brazil, during a workshop organized by UNESCO, the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil , and the Centre for Training and Development (CETREDE) in Fortaleza.
The workshop entitled “First Latin-American Course on Building Digital Libraries” is one of the many initiatives to create and strengthen information centers and institutions, libraries and archives. Its objective is to train specialists to build digital libraries in their institutions and to facilitate the access to scientific, educational and cultural information.
Resource persons include Ed Fox and Marcos André Goncalves from Virginia Tech (USA.), Javier Solorio Lagunas, University of Colima (Mexico) and Samira Sambaíno from the “Escuela Universitaria de Bibliotecología y Ciencias Afines” (Uruguay).
The International Federation for Libraries Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the Association of Universities Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) and the Latin-American Centre for Studies in Informatics (CLEI) are sponsors of the event.
UNESCO has significant experience in facilitating the development of free and open software tools for processing information. The most popular are CDS/ISIS and Greenstone. CDS/ISIS provides facilities for storing documents electronically and for advanced information retrieval. CDS/ISIS is used worldwide for managing databases in libraries and information centres. Greenstone is a suite of software for building and publishing digital library collections. It provides a new innovative way of organizing and publishing information on the Internet or on CD-ROM.
Resource persons include Ed Fox and Marcos André Goncalves from Virginia Tech (USA.), Javier Solorio Lagunas, University of Colima (Mexico) and Samira Sambaíno from the “Escuela Universitaria de Bibliotecología y Ciencias Afines” (Uruguay).
The International Federation for Libraries Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the Association of Universities Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) and the Latin-American Centre for Studies in Informatics (CLEI) are sponsors of the event.
UNESCO has significant experience in facilitating the development of free and open software tools for processing information. The most popular are CDS/ISIS and Greenstone. CDS/ISIS provides facilities for storing documents electronically and for advanced information retrieval. CDS/ISIS is used worldwide for managing databases in libraries and information centres. Greenstone is a suite of software for building and publishing digital library collections. It provides a new innovative way of organizing and publishing information on the Internet or on CD-ROM.
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