CAMRIS DIGITAL LIBRARIES Example: The GDL on Alternative Development in Peru

The creation of a Greenstone Digital Library (GDL), composed of the digital material collected in the IA (Information Audit) process, was carried out in several steps as described in the following figure:
The creation of a Greenstone Digital Library (GDL), composed of the digital material collected in the IA (Information Audit) process, was carried out in several steps as described in the following figure:		"One of the limiting requirements for the information handling processes is no longer the storage capacity in databases but the time required for information search and analysis. The discrimination of relevant and irrelevant information is one of the crucial points in information storage and retrieval" p. 16 Konstantinos Ergazakis, Konstantinos Karnezis, et al. (2002). Knowledge Management in Enterprises: A Research Agenda. Practical aspects of Knowledge Management - 4th International Conference, PAKM 2002, Vienna, Austria, Springer.
Greenstone Digital Library (GDL) Flowchart Organizing and Gathering Digital Materials for the GDL At the time this module was written, the GDL contained over 1,000 documents (141 doc. files, 220 pdf. files, 1,295 xls. files). During the IA process, the CAMRIS team members were attaining items for the bibliography referenced in Module 2 and materials for the GDL. Most of the information contained in the GDL came through institutions such as Chemonics, USAID, DEVIDA, INEI and PRA. These were complementary activities that obtained sources from: Materials physically located in Lima (Sources: Institutional) Files: Internet and local networks (Sources: Institutional) E-mail attachments (Sources: Individual) Each of the members of the CAMRIS team enriched the material search with their own "personal hunt" by asking and e-mailing other academic, institutional and individual sources regarding information on: coca, Peru, trafficking, the War on Drugs, substance abuse, drug abuse, etc. Before adding a document to the GDL or Bibliography, the document was read and evaluated for relevance. A CAMRIS format was developed for this purpose. For example, all of the documents provided by institutions were relevant to the project, since they were originally generated by the institutions that are related with the project, and the contents include topics related to coca, progress reports of the PDAP program, statistics, articles, document`s referral to PDAP, USAID / Chemonics, DEVIDA, INEI, PRA, and other types of consulting studies/ reports written by different consulting companies at the Chemonics / USAID request. Full text for some of theses references were only included for those in which copyright was cleared. In such cases, the bibliographic reference was included. Accessing the GDL on Alternative Development in Peru CAMRIS has posted a prototype version of the GDL on Alternative Development in Peru in the following temporal URL: http://payson.tulane.edu/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.exe A CD-Rom with the GDL is also available for internal distribution. Steps Ahead The GDL will evolve and enrich as the IA process continues to develop. Steps ahead include the creation of a dictionary of standard keywords to be used in future bibliographies, knowledge maps, thematic findings and future compilations of the GDL. For more information on Digital Libraries produced by CAMRIS please click here.