RESEARCH AGENCIES

National Authority for Scientific Research: www.mct.ro

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ORGANISATIONS

Romanian National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics

University of Bucharest

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PROJECTS & INITIATIVES

Risc-Expert

The main purpose of the project is the development of a system and of a portal for analysis, description, classification and recording of the major occupational risks and of the preventive measures and computer-assisted training and consultancy for employees in organizations with major occupational risks.

The system will be adaptable for any domain with major occupational risks (industry, health, biology, construction, transportation, environment, agriculture etc) and will rely on a specialized language, on specialized knowledge and semantics for the risk prevention description. It will include software tools for the ‘operator-activity-machine’ communication and for the translation of the instructions existing in natural language (including in English) into a formalized, specialized and synthetic language for the risk prevention.

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ROLINEST

Given the development of library information systems in Romania and the development of virtual libraries in Europe at project starting date, the project proposed, for the first time in Romania to setup a national system for information and documentation in science and technology based on the principle of virtual library catalogue. The design of the system was based on sharing information between involved libraries to create a virtual national library in science and technology, resulting in Romanian Library Network in Science and Technology – ROLINEST. In the same time, based on the National Data Communication System for Education and Research ROEDUNET, it was ensured high quality communication among involved libraries and the central server, representing the node ROLINEST. The project proposed to improve internal infrastructure of involved libraries and their connectivity to ROEDUNET. Improved accessibility to content information is provided to users. Librarians involved in project working team established common cataloguing rules, to setup national accepted and spread cataloguing procedures. The system allows access to both bibliographic records and full text digital documents. Databases access is provided by multilingual interface both for users and librarians. Search procedures are based on ontology technologies also.

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