Status and Activity of S

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Status and Activity of ST Databasesin Vietnam
and NACESTI

• Mr. Nguyen Tien Duc
• NACESTI, Vietnam

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Content

• I. National ST Information System in Vietnam
• II.NACESTI and its Databases
• III. Remarks and Recommendations

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National ST Information System in Vietnam

• National ST Information System in Vietnam
  (management by Ministry of ST) has 4 level
• -National Level3 organizations (NACESTI
  Information Center for Intellectual Property
  Information Center for Standards)
• -Ministerial Level44 Information centers
• -Provincial Level 64 Centers/Divisions
• -Institutional Level about 400 Division/Teams
• Beside National ST Information system, we have
• -Library System Public Academy (belongs to
  Ministry of Culture and Information)
• -Archive System (belongs to Ministry for
  Interior)

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II. Nacesti and its activities

• Governmental Decree No.159/2004/ND-CP
• Nacesti is the focal point in the national
  network of ST information services organizations
• NACESTI has mandates to carry out ST information
  activities disseminate and promote ST
  achievements organize and manage Techmarts act
  as Central Library for ST national registration
  of RD projects reports.

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Nacestis functions

• Participating in information activities and
  resources development in the Country
• Central Library on Science and Technology
• National registration of reports of RD projects
  funded by the Government
• Not-for-profit ISP and ICP (VISTA Network)
• Organize and manage Techmarts
• ST information professionals training
• Research in LIS

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Nacestis activities

• Development and implementation of legal documents
  on ST information activities
• National ST information resources development
• Information services provision
• Application of ICT in STI services
• Library services
• ST promotion and dissemination
• STI research, training and standardization
• International cooperation

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Development and implementation of legal
documents on ST information activities

• Preparation of the Governmental Decree No.159 on
  STI activities
• Regulations on the registration of research
  project proposals and research reports
• Regulations on the organization and operation of
  local IT and STI centers.

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2.1.National STI resources development

• Focus on the development of e-resources, meeting
  the demand of national industrialization and
  modernization.
• Currently, Nacesti is holding largest STI
  collections in Vietnam, with the growth rate of
  20-25 annually.

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Nacestis information resources

• Over 350,000 books titles
• 6,759 serial titles
• 17,000 e-journal titles and e-bulletins (access
  via full-text databases, e.g. ScienceDirect,
  EBSCO, Blackwells, etc.)
• 7,000 research reports
• 10,000 project proposals

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2.2.Nacestis in-house databases

• STD Vietnamese ST documents
• KQNC Research reports
• DETAI On-going research projects
• BOOK Library Union Catalogue
• Rural Electronic Library Materials related to
  agriculture and rural development
• Transferable Technologies

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2.3. Nacestis ST Databases

• Database KQNC Research Report (Results of
  completed ST Projects/ for RD)
• -Data From 1990 Native- language (Vietnamese)
• -7000 records/reports
• -Software ISIS for Windows
• -Type Bibliography Review/abstract
• Full- text (72-5000 reports)
• -Increasing 800-1000 records/year
• -Access on VISTA (WWW. Vista.gov.vn),
• but only bibliography
• -Publication (Directory/List of completed
  Projects
• 2 issue/year)

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2.3.Nacestis ST Databases

• 2. Database DETAI- On-going research projects
• -Data From 2005 Native- language (Vietnamese)
• -3500 records (basis draft of RD Projects)
• -Software ISIS for Windows
• -Type Bibliography/summarize, Abstract
• -Increasing 1500 records/year
• -Access on VISTA (WWW. Vista.gov.vn)
• -Publication (Directory/List of Projects 2
  issue/year)

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2.3.Nacestis ST Databases

• 3. Database STD- Vietnamese ST document
  abstracts)
• -Data From 1990 Native- language (Vietnamese)
• -60.000 records (Selected documents Articles,
  reports of conferences)
• -Software ISIS for Windows SQL Libol (Vietnam
  Software for Digital Library, from 2005)
• -Type Bibliography/summarize, Abstract/
• full- Text from 2005 (total 20.000
  documents)
• Increasing 10.000 full text document/year
  
• No supply full- text on VISTA (WWW.
  Vista.gov.vn)

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2.3.Nacestis ST Databases

• 4.. Database ST Abstracts
• -Data From 1975 Selects from Database STD
  above
• -English language
• -15.000 records
• -Software Zope (Z Object Publishing Environment,
  develop by Zope Corporation), free of charge
• -Type Bibliography/summarize/Abstracts
• -Increasing 800 records/year
• -Access on VISTA (WWW. Vista.gov.vn)
• -Publication (Abstracts of ST articles
• 4 issue/year) for International exchange

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2.4.Others ST Databases

• -Database CANBO ST Staff/officer (before 1995,
  Software CDS/ISIS At present no existing (no
  update)- NACESTI
• -Database ST Organizations data more 200
  Software Access- NACESTI
• -Database CHUYENGIA Experts Data 500 experts
  NACESTI
• -Database DANGKY Registration of ST
  organizations, SQL,Department of ST staff and
  Organization, MOST
• -Database LUANAN-PhD Thesis/Dissertation
  software CDS/ISIS -National Library of Vietnam
  (NLV)
• Data 3000 Record Bibliography/Abstracts Database

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III. Remarks on ST Databases in Vietnam

• 3.1.All most databases are Small Scale
• Application/Implementing different software
  (ISIS, Foxpro, Zope, Access, Green Stone,
  SQL,Libol,). These Software are designed for
  text storage and retrieval purposes and they are
  difficult to be applied in client-server and
  relational database application. Difficult to
  access/to search them on Internet, software
  Retrieval interface not friendly enough for
  users. This is first problem we have to pay much
  attention.
• 3.2.Update not usually (lack of
  data/documents). Data Collecting Problem.
• 3.3.All most databases in Vietnam are in
  Vietnamese language (a few in English)

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III. Remarks on ST Databases in Vietnam and
Recommendation

• It is good for local users, but create difficulty
  in international data exchange. Translation huge
  quantity of records from Vietnamese into English
  seems to cost a lot of budget and labor. This is
  one of difficulty problems in Vietnam
• 3.4.Manpower Nacesti manpower is not trained
  enough, especially for development and
  integrating Databases

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III. Remarks on ST Databases in Vietnam and
Recommendation

• 3.5. Recommendation
• -JST should provide NACESTI and some other
  Vietnamese Information Centers with software,
  formats and manuals for creating or modernizing
  some ST Databases.
• -Provide support to translate data of some ST
  databases from Vietnamese in to English (at least
  abstracts)
• -Train and regularly update new IT knowledge for
  key staff of NACESTI and some other Vietnamese
  information Centers

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• Thank you!
• Questions?