Disaster management of CDS/ISIS: A study of stability and integrity of the database

Abstract

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:" times="" new="" roman";="" mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;="" mso-bidi-language:ar-sa;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"="" lang="EN-US">CDS/ISIS is being used by at least 1500 different libraries all over the country and also is the key software in the INFLIBNET project. This study points out the adversity in the logic of the program with suggestions to maintain the data security and integrity and reveals that no facility has been provided in this software to protect its own prepared database against possible disastrous conditions like power failure during the operation, or database going beyond the capacity of storage media and facilities for database security. The package badly requires control handles and control checks on the operations to produce the desired results to make it <span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:" times="" new="" roman";="" mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">a <span style="font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:arial;mso-ansi-language:en-us;="" mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"="" lang="EN-US">more user-friendly one than what it is in its present version. Certain remedial measures to maintain the data and integrity have been suggested.</span></span></span>