Many companies having own information sets (commercial and industrial chambers, business centres,
exhibition companies, etc.) meet certain difficulties in the course of creation of information compact discs.
If the reference books compiling technologies (exhibition, regional or branch information catalogues) are mastered
successfully enough, then creation of electronic versions is complicated for various reasons.
The information-publishing company «Kare» has been working at the information market of Ukraine for 10 years,
accumulating a huge experience of creation of information retrieval systems (IRS).
In 2004 we have entered into the market the operative technology of creation of information-advertising CDs on the basis of data
about the organisations under working name DST (DATA STREAM TECHNOLOGY).
A user, getting or purchasing a compact disk, produced by means of DST, gets a comfortable electronic database
which can be used in everyday work. He can easily add own records, correct primary information,
carry out electronic or postal distribution of own materials.
Thus, it appears possibility for exhibition companies to publish a compact disk for every exhibition and, at the end of the year,
a generalized compact disk with the company exhibitions staged during the whole year.
For producers of regional or branch directories there is a possibility to publish disks operatively within the limits of orders,
devoting prime time for addition and correction of the information as well as for attracting advertisers and placing their ads on CD practically
in a real time mode.
Our technology was awarded the first prize on All-Ukrainian competition of the software
manufacturers «SOFT REGATA 2002/2003», «SOFT REGATA 2003/2004», «SOFT REGATA 2004/2005».
Short description of the program
The described technology is bundled software of two parts: FRONT and BACK.
BACK allows preparing information in a necessary for FRONT format. FRONT allows to implement different operations with the present information.
Part BACK is intended for preparation of data. Basic setting is converting information about enterprises from the DBF
format into the format of the program FRONT.
FRONT – is a base shell of IRS. Part FRONT is intended for distribution with a compact disk.
The program allows implementing different operations with a database about the organisations
in convenient form. The basic purpose of the program is a search of the necessary information.
The basic search is carried out by two qualifiers. These can be sectoral (the standard five-level all-Ukrainian
qualifier CTEA is supplied) and regional qualifiers (the standard two-level qualifier of Ukraine to the level of districts and cities
of regional submission is supplied), or any others. Qualifiers represent the treelike text structure
consisting of levels and sublevels.
To start work with FRONT there is no necessity for installation of any additional modules.
The program can be started directly from compact disk.
Program possibilities
The program allows implementing search in following criteria:
Search by qualifiers (region \ sector \ activity sectors...)
Search by the name
Search by the address
Search by a phone number or the comment to a phone number
Search by production and offered services with the use of regular expressions
Line-printing of envelopes and labels of any format on the basis of available data.
Sending of electronic messages and entrance on the companies websites is carried out directly from the program.
Possibility of editing and addition of records is realised. For this purpose on a hard disk is defined the special catalogue
in which all changes made by the user are saved.
The IRS supports the multilingual interface (Russian, Ukrainian, English) and at a language choice it can load
the corresponding information block.
Data storage format
Data about the organisations are stored in a form of the records, one record – one organisation. Record consists of the following fields:
The organisation identifier (at desire it is possible to use OKPO of the enterprise)
The name
The address
Phone numbers (each number can contain additionally the comment, for example, surname, patronymic name, first name of the contact person)
E-mail addresses (each address can contain the comment)
The website address
The information on production and offered services
The image of the organisation logo or the advertising block (Windows BMP format)
Additional information on the organisation (prices, advertising, images and the description of the enterprise production)
Export of data is implemented in HTML and CSV formats. For formation of the list of electronic addresses TXT format is used.
Protection
The CD prepared according to the described technology can be spread both with and without protection.
