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Transcript of 25-27 June 2003Clearing House Workshop, Paris1 Direct access to UNESCO Documents UNESDOC.
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 2
UNESDOC
• Creation in 1995• Full text and multilingual database• Web access
Home pagehttp://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulisDirect access to specific documents
• 28 000 documents ( June 2003 )
• 1 Million pages• 51 gigas
• 2700 documents/year• 100 000 pages/year
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 3
Why PDF format ?
• PDF Portable document Format• Well-known and used world-wide• Acrobat software is cheap
( Reader free , Acrobat special UNESCO price 30€ )
• Manage composite documents • Display of original lay-out• Independent from production software
• Diffusion via e-support ( intranet, Internet, CD-ROM,etc.. )
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 4
UNESDOC Content
– DG Speeches Since 1987 – Governing Bodies Since 1992
Resolutions/Decisions since 1946
– Sectoral Documents WS, conferences, etc.
– Mission Reports ( Intranet )
– Monthly magazines : Copyright Bulletin , Museum ( project )
– Retroactive digitization of documents (1971-1995)
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 5
Unesdoc: Language Breakdown
32%
24%
15%
10%
9%
8% 2%
English
French
Spanish
Russian
Arabic
Chinese
Multilingual
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 6
UNESDOC Management
Archives Library
Clearing House
UNESDOC
Collecting files
Scanning and OCR
Outsourcing microfiches
CDROM preparation
UNESBIB
Cataloging
Indexing
Co-ordination
Internet access
CDROM Diffusion
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 7
Stored files
• Electronic Originals (Word, XPress) 33% only The Ideal
• Scanned Documents , images 37%Old documentsLow quality printingMicrofiches
• OCR 30%
• Composite
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 8
Special features
• Presence of links from tables of contents towards chapters and paragraphs
• Intelligent documents (cross document links)
• Active Urls
• Direct access to serial articles
• Cut/paste ( texts et graphics )
• Downloading of entire documents Constitution of personal databases
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 9
Internet Access to documents• Searching UNESDOC
– Basic , advanced or expert mode– Full text
Pages with “Hits” are displayed directly
– Bibliographic elements• Keywords from trilingual thesaurus• Year of publication• Document code• etc..
• Direct access to specific documents hyperlinks,CGI
• Demonstration http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/index.html
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 16
Tips and Shortcuts
• How to copy paragraph
• How to copy text in column
• How to open a PDF at a given page
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 20
Advanced : Search with Thesaurus
• 1st concept : developing countries
• 2nd concept : free flow of information
• Searching with keywords via the Thesaurus http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/search_form.html
Free flow of information in countries under development
25-27 June 2003 Clearing House Workshop, Paris 27
UNESDOC subsets on CDROMs
Also exists for 97-98
In testing : CDROM and printed copies of EX Documents before EX session 166