Progress in EDN

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Introduction• Changes at the Council of Europe.

– Library and Archives joins Department of Information Technology– Mission:

• Information management along the “Information life cycle”[1] (better exploitation of existing solutions, identification of new solutions, establishment of a regulatory structure, corresponding collection policies and workflows, tools provision, training…).

• Implementation of the Council of Europe Archiving Policy, management and preservation of the institutional information heritage. Capacity building to preserve and make available the knowledge assets of long-term value preferably in digital form in a reliable and readily available authorised source.

• Supporting institutional entities in correct record and files management and archiving. Reduce the duplication of efforts in this sector.

• Transparent access provision to institutional information (both on line and in person, to authorised users).

• Supporting internal user autonomy in information retrieval and acquisition of information especially those in electronic format.

•[1] Creation/Acquisition - Cataloguing/Identification – Storage and Preservation – Access – Elimination/Reuse for creation

• What does it mean for EINIRAS?– Better support for EDN– Easier access to new IT tools– Invitation to Strasbourg

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EDN *original project

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EDN *original project

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Current situation

• CIDOB Journal articles of the database of CIDOB, Spain (13 800 records)• COEJournal articles of the CERES database of the Council of Europe (32 117 records)• FIIAJournal articles of the database of the The Finnish Institute of International Affairs

(49 989 records)• FNSPJournal articles of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP) library

database(18 690 records)• RIIAJournal articles of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA)

"Chatham House" library database(24 882 records)• SIPRIJournal articles of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute library

database (6 209 records)• UMVJournal articles of the Ústav mezinárodních vztahu library database

( 2 762 records)• WAOJournal articles of the database World Affairs Online of the

Fachinformationsverbund Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde(German Information Network on International Relations and Area Studies) (220 584 records)

• Statistics (http://einiras.coe.int/cgi-bin/awstats.pl )

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EDN

• Summary of the « wishes » since last conference– Add the databases planned in previous period

FNSP– Add list of periodical titles – expected 4Q– New server+test server– expected 11/2006– Adding einiras descriptors to existing records

(under study)

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Future Projects

• Remake of design

• More on line contents?

• UNICODE

• Next database?

• Improving visibility

• What are you missing

• Add link to your website!