WEBSITE OF PICES TECHNICAL COMMITTEE FOR DATA EXCHANGE

Ivan Vysotskiy

Far Eastern National University, Kaplunova 3-76, Vladivostok, 690013, Russia defender@nurisoft.ru

The goal of this site is to provide a media for TCODE members for information exchange and communication.

At the moment, the content is divided into the following sections:

- Work plan including a description of progress for each entry;

- Annual reports;

- Metadata storage;

- News;

- Members info;

- Links to data and metadata resources.

The site is implemented as a virtual server on the web server of TINRO-Center (http://www.tinro.ru) and available at the URL http://tcode.tinro.ru. The server is created with use of the Apache web server, Perl scripting language and Oracle DBMS. All site pages have a similar structure and consist of the header, menu, workspace and footer. The pages are distinguished only by the contents of the workspaces.

Along with browsing, the server provides following services:

- Online search;

- Metadata updating;

- Members info updating;

- News updating.

The privileged users (TCODE members) may edit the contents of the members info and metadata sections. Before editing, the users must pass through the authentication procedure. Only server administrator generates login/passwords and edits the news section.