Crimea 2000 Conference

Crimea 2000, the 7th annual conference in the series, took place in Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine from 5-9 June 2000.

 Click here to see the Opening Ceremony

There were session on IRBIS, the software package based on CDS/ISIS and developed by the Russian National Library for Science and Technology, which has now appeared in a windows version.  At the meeting the DOS version was made officially available free-of-charge for the future.

The highlight though was undoubtedly the appearance at a CDS/ISIS Workshop of Mr Davide Storti, of UNESCO, who is continuing the work of Mr Giampaolo Delbigio, and indeed expanding it to make available, for example, a new JAVAISIS.

In a session held in memory of Mr Giampaolo Delbigio, he reported on attempts being made to increase cooperation between different organisations, fostered by a meeting on February 28-29 2000 which had been convened by Germany's GTZ on behalf of the UNESCO National Commissions of Germany, Austria and Switzerland to look at ways to secure the future of the ISIS family of software packages in terms of manpower and funding.

I gave a paper on the state of the art of CDS/ISIS, aimed at informing participants from the CIS countries about what was going on in the rest of the world.

This was the Seventh Crimea Conference and a pleasant innovation was the holding of sessions in other towns.  I attended a session entitled University Informatization at Theodosia (Click here to see the papers on the webserver of the Russian National Library of Science and Technology) which took place in an art gallery. Here is a photo (including your Chairman) in this session.

Alan Hopkinson
Chair, ISIS Plus, the UK CDS/ISIS User Group
15 June 2000