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+# ABCD3
+New generation ABCD using J-ISIS and PostgreSQL
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+In order to drop limits posed by the 'traditional' ISIS technology (as implemented e.g. in CISIS of BIREME), 
+the third generation of ABCD is using J-ISIS, which uses Berkeley DB as a storage engine and LUCENE for indexing,.
+Otherwise the main principles of ISIS (FDT, FST, PFT) are still used as well as the concepts of flexibility (allowing any 
+bibiographic standard to be used along with other database-structures) and 'Swiss Knife' multi-purpose ideas.
+ABCD 3.0 is a hybrid system, using PostgreSQL for the management of administrative data in the library system (users, 
+permissions, profiles, loanobjects, circulation rules).
+
+The software has been developed - and is still being developed - by a Cuban team working at the Universidad de Ciencias Informáticas
+(UCI) and is now used at all universities and higher education institutions in the country. Currently also the institutions of 
+the Ministry of Education (including secundary schools and research institutions) are installing the software, so there is already
+a larger user-base with lots of experiences.
+
+The ABCD 3.0 package includes J-ISIS, Virgo-server and a PostgreSQ-installation script. Java needs to be available on the server
+Currently only Linux is supported while in principle all software will also run in Windows.