Presentation on a new system for regional document/information management, given by Timo Baur, CCCCC, Belize at the Marketplace for techies session at the 4th I-K-Mediary workshop in Bangladesh, January 2011.

5. Reference Framework: Organizational Model Components of the Clearinghouse Mechanism common standard for data exchange Information sharing agreement common standard for data exchange Information sharing agreement Clearinghouse (Intermediary) country node subnodes

7. Reference Framework: Common Metadata Model Source Organization Program Project Region Country Area Sector Topic Topical Spatial Organizational Temporal Typical Document Type Type-specific Metadata Date Agriculture Energy Tourism … Vulnerability & Capacity Assessments National Adaptation Strategies Coral Reef Monitoring Sea Level Rise Climate Model … Presentations Final Reports Books National Communications Field data … Caribbean - Belize – Hopkins September 9 2010 Every document is tagged with metadata which describes content and context. This allows to accordingly store and find the information.

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9. Accessing the Clearinghouse Data Full text search

10. Searches by Countries, Sectors and Topics

11. Different File types

12. Entering new Documents

13. Uploading Documents

14. the Public Perspective Online: Country-specific Document Retrieval http://www.caribbeanclimate.bz