Gateway news 3 (1st March 2003)
Introduction
If no error on my behalf, today, our Gateway presents 255 described websites.
This is exactly 84 more since the 3rd of December.
The average of the progression for the last three months is of 28 sites per month.
Comparison with the previous months:
|
Partner |
07-10-2002 |
3-12-02 |
30-01-03 |
28-02-03 |
Progression last month |
| Drugscope |
56 |
56 |
57 |
57 |
+ 0 |
| Toxibase |
21 |
28 |
39 |
46 |
+ 7 |
| Gruppo Abele |
24 |
27 |
38 |
39 |
+ 1 |
| Archido |
14 + 6 (CEEs) |
21 |
27 |
35 |
+ 8 |
| Trimbos |
15 |
15 |
24 |
28 |
+ 4 |
| PND |
8 |
8 |
16 |
21 |
+ 5 |
| CAN |
5 |
5 |
5 |
16 |
+ 11 |
| CZU |
3 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
+ 0 |
| Hung. Lib |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
+ 0 |
| Ektepn |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
+ 0 |
| IPDT |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
+ 0 |
| TOTAL |
159 |
171 |
219 |
255 |
+ 36 |
What was planned (approximately) and what is done
|
Partner |
Countries to be covered |
Total planned |
Done |
% done |
| Gruppo Abele | IT, Italian CH |
55 |
39 |
70% |
| Toxibase | FR, LUX, French CH and BE |
80 |
46 |
58% |
| DrugScope | UK, IRE, Europeans |
110 |
57 |
52% |
| Trimbos | NL, Flemish BE |
55 |
28 |
51% |
| PND | ES |
72 |
21 |
29% |
| Archido | DE, German CH |
160 |
35 |
22% |
| CZU | CZ, Eastern Europe |
27 ? |
5 |
18% ? |
| CAN | SE, DK, NO, FIN |
105 |
16 |
15% |
| Ektepn | GR |
7 |
5 |
71% |
| Hung. Lib | Hu |
9 ? |
2 |
|
| ????? | PT |
20 |
1 |
5% |
| TOTAL |
700 |
255 |
36% |
General remarks
- Congratulations to Patricia Brigoni, Gruppo Abele, and to the Toxibase team for having achieved the best percentages of what was planned!
- There is no more input from DrugScope since October 2002... (only corrections)
- The biggest problems remain the analysis of the Scandinavian, Portuguese and CEEs websites... Although one can note the irresistible progression, in February, of the Scandinavians...
- Concerning the CEEs countries, there is an ambiguity about the number of websites planned to be analysed, and as well as about the sharing of the work:
- in Lisbon, February 2002, Hana identified 27 sites
- but in the CEEs' workshop, Sept.2002, lists per country were established:
- Hungary 25 analysed: 2
- Latvia 22 analysed: 0
- Bulgaria 14 analysed: 1
- Lithuania 14 analysed: 1
- Serbia 14 analysed: 0
- Poland 14 analysed: 1
- Slovenia 10 analysed: 0
- Estonia 8 analysed: 1
- Czech Rep. 8 analysed: 5
- Romania 6 analysed: 1
- Slovak Rep. 6 analysed: 0
- This makes a total of 141 sites but only 12 of them have been analysed...
- There is a solution for covering the missing countries. One month ago, Susanna sent the Word-Input-Form by a mailing to various organisations, and she told me that I have a much higher rate of responses to my call for website descriptions than I expected ! Of course they have to be revised, but anyway it is a significant save of time. (25-02-03). This solution can be used by any partner...
Corrected files
- Following the online corrections dates, Stephan corrected 43 sites.
- I revisited the 43 files corrected by Stephan, plus 12 other ones.
My new typographical initiative
In Bremen, it was decided that I would add <br> and <i> and </i> when appropriate in the producers' and websites' descriptions. Some of you started to do it. Thanks!
But I now decided that the first occurrence of the producer's name and of the website title will appear in bold. So don't be surprised to find also <b> and </b> !
My "this month" advises
- Resources providers: in Bremen, it was decided that when the producer is also a resources provider, this should be added in a paragraph in its description (in fact the elements you are clicking on in the Resource provider section that is planned to be cancelled). Only one partner did this correction: the PND. Please think to this...
- Avoid the use of "&" (unless it is used in a given reference): this is an American sign and not present in the UK/European typographical rules.
- Titles: for a better "readability", please avoid, as far as possible, long titles, and to use the producer's full name for them. This will avoid unpleasant doubloons in the results screens (title + producer) such as:
Archido Archiv und Dokumentationszentrum für Drogenliteratur, Archido Archiv und Dokumentationszentrum für Drogenliteratur
Personally, I would, in this case, think that "Archido", as a title, is enough...
All the best!
Anne Singer