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AIDA PC Database

On this page you will find information about the AIDA PC Database, including a downloadable version. AIDA PC is an MS Access 2000 application for the management of simple information on humanitarian development project.
The AIDA PC Database can export data to XML files that are compliant with the International Development Markup Language (IDML). IDML is an XML Schema for the exchange of development related information.

The AIDA PC Database was designed and implemented by Stefan Huesemann (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) in close cooperation with the Mark Waser (Development Gateway, Washington DC, USA). Please contact us to give feed-back and report errors.

Who is the database for?

What is the purpose of the database?

What are the functionalities of AIDA PC?

What are the system requirements to install AIDA PC?

AIDA PC downloads

Who is the database for?

The project database is intended to be used by organizations who don't have a database to manage their project information. It is specially suited for organizations that are active in humanitarian development projects.

What is the purpose of the database?

The database is designed to manage simple project information on development activities. The exchange of project information within or between organizations is substantially facilitated by the database. The main purpose of the database is to help organizations to upload data to AIDA or any other similar system without using a WWW interface and without knowledge of XML. The application is not a project management software.

What are the functionalities or AIDA PC?

Future functionalities:

What are the system requirements to install AIDA PC?

To run the project information database you need the following infrastructure and software:

AIDA Downloads

Title

Description

Last update

AIDA PC Database (version 1.1)

Download of the AIDA PC database.
(requires Access 2000 or later)(3.5Mb)

Nov. 1 2004
Information Exchange between Humanitarian Organizations: Using the XML Schema IDML (Journal of the AIS)
[ Article PDF ] (2.7 MB)
This Journal article explains how XML-based information exchange between autonomous information systems work. It presents rules for deriving relational database models from XML Schemas. AIDA PC and the International Development Markup Language (IDML) is used to illustrate the theory. May 15 2002
AIDA PC Description

This is a documents that explains how the AICA PC Database is designed and implemented.
(Word document, 34Kb)

Oct. 23 2002
AIDA PC Overview This document gives a one page overview of the functionalities of the AIDA PC Database and lists the installation requirements.
(Word document, 20Kb)
Oct. 23 2002
AIDA PC import module with DOM

This report explains the AIDA PC import module that was implemented by Fabio Patocchi. The Document Object Model DOM is explained and then used to program the Access DB module that enables AIDA PC to import IDML files and synchronize the projects in the file with the ones in the project database.
(PDF, 320 KB)

Nov. 23 2002
XMLizer

XMLizer is a mapping tool that allows you to map XML schemas to any relational database. The mapping rules that the user defines are used by the XMLizer web-server to generate XML documents. XMLizer allows to call dynamically generated XML documents over the WWW.

This freeware was programmed by Thomas Schädler in cooperation with Stefan Hüsemann.

XMLizer can for instance be used to make IDML documents accessible over the Internet.

Jan. 27 2003

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S. Huesemann


Information Systems Group
Department of Informatics
University of Fribourg