CREATING NATIONAL NODES OF THE BIOSAFETY CLEARING-HOUSE CANADIAN PROPOSAL Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop 28 -29 May 2005 Montreal, Canada
CURRENT SITUATION • Many countries would like a national node of the BCH. • Countries may have the IT/IM capacity to securely host applications. • Countries do not have the resources or time to develop the necessary applications.
POTENTIAL SOLUTION • Generic system for creating national nodes. • Based on applications developed for CNBCH. • CNBCH developed with scalability, reuse and capacity development in mind. • Incremental work needed to make it generic. • Canada offering generic applications for national BCH nodes through UNEP-GEF project.
NATIONAL NODE FEATURES • National subset of the BCH data – single window for a country’s records on the Central Portal • Additional national context – information not possible through central portal • Interoperable with Central Portal – – – compatibility of records same overall look and feel same general approach to functions • Accommodate domestic requirements – ownership of records – multiple languages – specific graphics, links, disclaimers, etc.
COMPONENTS • • • Metadata entry tool Relational database Search engine Web services Web site management tool
COMPONENTS • • • Metadata entry tool Relational database Search engine Web services Web site management tool
TECHNICAL APPROACH • Supports multiple languages. • Default configuration is English. • Platform independent, open-source. • Developed using Java, XML, XSLT, SOAP.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT • Static content created through a Web page. • Common formats currently supported: – – – – Decisions under 11. 1 Competent National Authority Laws and Regulations Regional and International Agreement National Focal Point Other Decisions Bibliographic Information Organizations (Relevant Web sites)
CONTENT MANAGEMENT • Records published to Web site with Web service. • Can be used with any entry tool (Canadian, Management Centre, US or Swiss). • Web service supports add, update & delete functions. • Documents digitally signed.
FEATURES • Customizable look and feel: – – – resolution images cascading stylesheet • Customizable header and sidebar. • Footer information extracted from XML document.
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