tailieunhanh - Information Management Resource Kit Module on Management of Electronic DocumentsUNIT 5. DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LESSON 6. TEXTUAL DATABASES AND CDS/ISIS BASICSNOTE Please note that this PDF version does not have the interactive features offered th

At the end of this lesson, you will: understand the functionalities offered by CDS/ISIS, a textual DBMS; • understand the technical work needed by developers to implement these functionalities; understand when you should use CDS/ISIS. | Information Management Resource Kit Module on Management of Electronic Documents UNIT 5. DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LESSON 6. TEXTUAL DATABASES AND CDS ISIS BASICS NOTE Please note that this PDF version does not have the interactive features offered through the IMARK courseware such as exercises with feedback pop-ups animations etc. We recommend that you take the lesson using the interactive courseware environment and use the PDF version for printing the lesson and to use as a reference after you have completed the course. FAO 2003 5. Database management systems - 6. Textual databases and cds isis basics - page 1 Objectives At the end of this lesson you will understand the functionalities offered by CDS ISIS a textual DBMS understand the technical work needed by developers to implement these functionalities understand when you should use CDS ISIS. Introduction Imagine you need a system to store retrieve and disseminate data describing textual resources such as books projects papers etc. In this case textual databases containing bibliographies webliographies project descriptions etc. can match your needs. CDS ISIS Computerised Documentation Systems Integrated Set of Information Systems is a textual database management system designed to build and manage textual databases. 5. Database management systems - 6. Textual databases and cds isis basics - page 2 I What does CDS ISIS offer CDS ISIS was designed in order to provide some important functionalities for document management. There are many different versions of CDS ISIS which share following common features Handling the structure of textual databases Text-oriented formatting Fast and powerful retrieval Handling different languages and scripts Let s review together the importance that these functionalities have for the user. I What does CDS ISIS offer Textual databases come with. 1 Elements with a highly variable length like titles or abstracts . 2 Elements that come with an unknown number of occurrences like .