<s>
CDS/ISIS	B-Application
is	O
a	O
software	O
package	O
for	O
generalised	O
Information	O
Storage	O
and	O
Retrieval	O
systems	O
developed	O
,	O
maintained	O
and	O
disseminated	O
by	O
UNESCO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
particularly	O
suited	O
to	O
bibliographical	O
applications	O
and	O
is	O
used	O
for	O
the	O
catalogues	B-Library
of	O
many	O
small	O
and	O
medium-sized	O
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CDS/ISIS	B-Application
is	O
an	O
acronym	O
which	O
stands	O
for	O
Computerised	O
Documentation	O
Service	O
/	O
Integrated	O
Set	O
of	O
Information	O
Systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
CDS/ISIS	B-Application
ran	O
on	O
an	O
IBM	O
mainframe	B-Architecture
and	O
was	O
designed	O
in	O
the	O
mid-1970s	O
under	O
Mr	O
Giampaolo	O
Del	O
Bigio	O
for	O
UNESCO	O
's	O
Computerized	O
Documentation	O
System	O
(	O
CDS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
ran	O
on	O
an	O
IBM	B-Device
PC	I-Device
under	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Winisis	O
,	O
the	O
Windows	B-Application
version	O
,	O
first	O
demonstrated	O
in	O
1995	O
,	O
may	O
run	O
on	O
a	O
single	O
computer	O
or	O
in	O
a	O
local	B-General_Concept
area	I-General_Concept
network	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
JavaISIS	O
client/server	O
component	O
was	O
designed	O
in	O
2000	O
,	O
allowing	O
remote	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
over	O
the	O
Internet	O
from	O
Windows	B-Application
,	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
Macintosh	B-Device
computers	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Furthermore	O
,	O
GenISIS	O
allows	O
the	O
user	O
to	O
produce	O
HTML	B-Language
Web	O
forms	O
for	O
CDS/ISIS	B-Application
database	O
searching	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ISIS_DLL	O
provides	O
an	O
API	B-General_Concept
for	O
developing	O
CDS/ISIS	B-Application
based	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
OpenIsis	O
library	O
,	O
developed	O
independently	O
from	O
2002	O
to	O
2004	O
,	O
provided	O
another	O
API	B-General_Concept
for	O
developing	O
CDS/ISIS	B-Application
-like	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
most	O
recent	O
effort	O
towards	O
a	O
completely	O
renewed	O
FOSS	B-License
,	O
Unicode	O
implementation	O
of	O
CDS/ISIS	B-Application
is	O
the	O
J-Isis	O
project	O
,	O
developed	O
by	O
UNESCO	O
since	O
2005	O
and	O
currently	O
maintained	O
by	O
Mr	O
Jean	O
Claude	O
Dauphin	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IDIS	O
is	O
a	O
tool	O
for	O
direct	O
data	O
exchange	O
between	O
CDS/ISIS	B-Application
and	O
IDAMS	O
.	O
</s>
