FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture

FIGIS system

Integrated knowledge base
- Tens of factsheet domains, statistics and geographic data sharing a common information system and making leverage on each other in order to provide a rich and integrated information system
- Common referential system
- Common information model and database system
Single point-of-access
- Same tool for managing & disseminating all the FI related info
- Browsing, searching, archiving, analysing, statistics (web-trends)
- Same navigation behavior and URL scheme
Openness
- The information stored in FIGIS is not locked
- it integrates and can be integrated into other info sources
- it can be programmatically processed by other systems
Standard based
- XML data
- Corporate development standards
Low third-party dependency
- No vendor locking
- Code ownership guarantees low risks
Relies on corporate services (documents, news, GIS, ...)
- Relies on and integrates FAO corporate services for documents, news & events, GIS
Implements editorial guidelines, information strategy and data ownership
- Common layout, look & feel, source & citation
- Agreed navigation policy
- Controlled site structure and information coherence
- Delegation of authority implemented through data collections based authorisation and authoring policy
- Defined data publication workflow and SW release management