3.4 Other cases and applications
Flavio Costa, Jean‐Yves Le Meur and Tim Smith
The International Labour Organisation( ILO, an agency of the United Nations) is using Invenio to store 120’ 000 documents about labour legislation and practices, the history of labour organisations.
It is also used by ILO to keep parties and the public informed about conferences and conventions and their reports, and also about the works of the ILO Governing Bodies.
In Switzerland, a couple of Invenio installations in the education domain were developed. Edudoc( www. edudoc. ch) is the document repository of the Swiss Conference of the Cantonal Directors of Public Education. It contains the official gazettes for education matters, official reports, laws and other documents( bills, minutes of parliamentary speeches, etc.), education press, press cuttings, plenary minutes, etc.
Figure 4: The homepage of Labordoc, the institutional document repository of the International Labour Office of the United Nations
The Canton of Freiburg( CH)( www. friportal. ch) uses Invenio as a portal to store documents dedicated to pedagogy. Besides the documentation part( including a multimedia encyclopaedia for teenagers), it contains a section dedicated to the latest news and a section reserved for teachers. It is also provides links to sites allowing exchanges between classes of students and collaborative activities.
The Engadine Cultural Archives( CH), a public institution, runs an Invenio server( http:// search. kulturarchiv. ch /) to collect and disseminate historical, cultural and artistic items from the Engadine region, which corresponds to a particular mountain region in Switzerland where a minority language is used. Documents include: books, catalogues, letters, postcards, pictures, newspapers, maps, and other objects( coins, machines, etc.). The maps are“ static” PDF files at present, but in analogy to the way that the Acrobat reader is plugged in, other applets could be easily plugged into Invenio to provide additional functions enriching, perhaps interactively, user experience with maps and geographic information stored in Invenio.
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