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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Dear
CDS-ISIS users,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Please find for your consideration the 22 December
2013 Release of J-ISIS. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/downloads/download/jisis_suite%2022%20December%202013.zip" title="J-ISIS 22 December 2013"><span style lang="EN-US">J-ISIS
22 December 2013</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/downloads/download/jisis_suite%2022%20December%202013.zip" title="J-ISIS 22 December 2013"><span style lang="EN-US"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/downloads/download/J-ISIS%20Reference%20Manual%2022%20December%202013.pdf" title="J-ISIS Reference Manual 22 December 2013"><span style lang="EN-US">J-ISIS Reference Manual 22 December 2013</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/downloads/download/J-ISIS%20Reference%20Manual%2022%20December%202013.pdf" title="J-ISIS Reference Manual 22 December 2013"><span style lang="EN-US"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/downloads/download/Web-JISIS3.war" title="Web-JISIS 22 December 2013"><span style lang="EN-US">Web-JISIS 22 December 2013</span></a></span></p>
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</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/downloads/download/Web-JISIS3.war" title="Web-JISIS 22 December 2013"><span style lang="EN-US"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">A) J-ISIS - The
most significant new developments are:</span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><br></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">1) Improvements of the Indexing and Searching module as follow:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><span style> </span>a) Index terms are normalized:
i.e. converted to uppercase and without diacritic characters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><span style> </span>b) Query terms are also normalized
to get the right term suggestions and to get search results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><span style> </span>c) Stopwords are automatically
removed from the query if a stopwords file is provided. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><span style> </span>d) FST entries (or lines) can have a name
entered by the user that will be used for indexing and searching instead
of FST identifiers (tags).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><span style> </span>e) In case there is no name entered
in the FST entry, the FST entry identifier (or tag) is used but is now prefixed with an underline character (for further
processing with JavaScript and Solr). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><span style> </span>f) Highlighting of search terms in the
results has been improved </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><br>
<i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">For example: Jóború will be indexed as JOBURU
and querying for Jóború will search records with fields/subflieds containing
JOBORU but only Jóború will be highlighted</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)" lang="EN-US">WARNING!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><b style><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)" lang="EN-US">ALL J-ISIS DATABASES NEED TO BE RE-INDEXED AFTER INSTALLATION OF J-ISIS
22 December 2013</span></b><b style><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">2) The "Advanced
Data Entry" module has been improved so that when pressing ENTER when you
are editing a field or subfield, the cursor moves to the next editable
field/subfield in edit mode. UP and DOWN key moves respectively to the previous
and next editable field/subfield also in edit mode. You can copy record content
between databases.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">3) The User has
the opportunity to change the default RAW print format by creating a RAW.pft
format in the PFT editor. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">4) Three
important bugs are fixed: i) Exception Error when exporting with a reformatting
FST; ii) Exception Error when importing Arabic ISO file with encoding </span><span style lang="EN-US">"Windows-1256"; iii)
Resource missing when starting J-ISIS in Spanish.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">B) J-ISIS Reference Manual</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">It has been completely revised to reflect the latest changes and it provides
more information on how to use J-ISIS.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">The Search and Data Entry chapters have been completely rewritten with many
small examples that the user can try itself. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">C) Web-JISIS</span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">It has been updated to be synchronized with the new changes in J-ISIS 22
December 2013.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">As usual, I
would be very grateful if you could take the time to try J-ISIS. All your
comments, suggestions, improvement requests and bug descriptions are welcome.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Merry Christmas and my best wishes for a wonderful
2014 year,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Jean-Claude</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jean-Claude Dauphin<br><br><a href="mailto:jc.dauphin@gmail.com">jc.dauphin@gmail.com</a><br><a href="mailto:jc.dauphin@afus.unesco.org">jc.dauphin@afus.unesco.org</a><br><br><a href="http://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/">http://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.unesco.org/isis/">http://www.unesco.org/isis/</a><br><a href="http://www.unesco.org/idams/">http://www.unesco.org/idams/</a><br><a href="http://www.greenstone.org">http://www.greenstone.org</a>
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