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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

NCL Collection Management System

36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria

Alexandre Anastassov

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• Definition• Under the hood

• Bibliographic Records• Full Text• Online Access

• Quick Tour• Reporting• Repository• Questions & Answers

Agenda

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What is NCL Collection Management System?

Definition

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It is an ultimate repository of NCL documents available from INIS in electronic form together

with the tools for their management

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Before• AtomIndex• INIS Online Database

Now• INISReference Database• NCL Collection Management System (INISNCL)• INIS Collection Search (ICS)

Under the hood

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Before• AtomIndex

Now• INISReference Database

Management• IRPS, FIBRE, CAI, MET, etc.

Bibliographic Records

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Storage• File System

Metadata• INIS Online Database (limited information)

Management• n/a

Full Text - Before

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Storage• File System

Metadata• INISReference Database

Management• NCL Collection Management System (INISNCL)

Full Text - Now

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Before• INIS Online Database

Now• INIS Collection Search

Online Access

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Quick Tour

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Demo

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Reporting

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RepositoryINIS ONLINE DATABASE NCL COLLECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

REPOSITORYFile structure Abstract structure (this version implements file structure repository)Different structure for public, restricted, orphaned and deprecated stores Unified structureHard coded (fix) location Location through a configuration fileSingle version support Multiple versions supportFix structure based on RN Flexible structure currently based on RN and file typeSupport only one type of documents (PDF) Multiple types (currently only PDF is used but the repository has capability to

handle different types)IMPLEMENTATION

Procedural code for accessing repository Object-oriented code for accessing repositoryError code (if statements) Event handling (try-catch)Tightly-coupled modules Loosely-coupled modulesDifferent areas of concerned cannot be easily separated Business logic separated by area of concernsValidation is spread over different modules Centralized validationOperations have to be implemented by client Safe operations with file store through APIStructure is exposed to the client Transparent structureDeleted files are gone Supports alternate deletion storen/a Integrated loggingn/a Access rights to work with repository items (allow deletion, move, copy,

multiple versions, read-only)n/a Transactionsn/a API to work with stored itemsn/a Web service to work with the store (search, find duplicates, history)

ACCESS RULESHard-coded logic to determine public/private access Rule-based logic stored in a SQL databasen/a Rules report

REPORTINGDifficult to create reports Flexible reporting combining NCL records with bibliographic recordsn/a SQL query to access metadata informationn/a Metadata stored in SQL database and accessible through INISNCL web site

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Questions & Answers

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