SIPAM
AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE PROMOTION OF AQUACULTURE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE PROMOTION OF AQUACULTURE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION
MEDRAP II
RAB/89/005/12
FIELD DOCUMENT
95/38
| SIPAM AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE PROMOTION OF AQUACULTURE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION |
Edited by MEDRAP II Regional Center
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PREFACE
Project UNDP/FAO/RAB/89/00512 MEDRAP (Mediterranean Region Aquaculture Project) Phase II engaged in the promotion of aquaculture development though the establishment of a permanent mechanism of cooperation/coordination in the Mediterranean region. The Project aims at the creation of a network of regional aquaculture development institution together with the strengthening of such institutions and the aquaculture input supply industry. Once the Project had started, the need to strengthen the network through the establishment of an information system to assist aquaculture activities at national and regional levels became evident.
This paper presents the conceptual design of an Integrated Information System to be developed and installed in the MEDRAP II Project area. This System should provide aquaculture/fishery managers, planners, producers and services with a regional desk information system fed with input from various inter-related sources
it is a system that will produce useful and usable information through organized methods of selecting, storing retrieving and reporting data available from national, regional and international (FAO) offices. It is emphasized that this is the revision of a working document which was discussed and approved by the delegates of MEDRAP countries. All the country representatives and MEDRAP National coordinators actively participated in building up the conceptual design during the three-day Seminar on Information and documentation held in Cairo (Egypt) from 11 to 13 December 1991.
This paper, a revision of the December 1991 version, is the first of a series of project documents dealing with this work; apart from the papers that will be prepared on specific subjects, the SIPAM series will contain the following three additional papers which will be completed by the end of the present phase of the project:
The SIPAM documentation series should also be available in more than one language.
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3.1 A predefined architecture,
3.3 Automatic and manual instruments
3.5 Pre-established data/information model
Appendix 1 Hardware configuration for the work-stations forming the network
Appendix 3 Terms of reference for SIPAM Data Manager
Appendix 4 Terms of reference of SIPAM Analyst programmer
LIST OF FIGURES
Fig. 1 SIPAM - System Overview
Fig. 2 The Decision-Marking Process
Fig. 3 SIPAM - Regional Information Network
Fig. 4 SIPAM - Operational Processing Chart
Fig. 5 The Complex Data/Information model