Helder Troca Zagalo

Portuguese parliamentary records: a multimedia digital library distributed architecture, based on Web services

This paper presents the overall work of the Portuguese parliamentary records: a multimedia digital library composed by the parliamentary records and an audiovisual archive. These systems are briefly described and a distributed architecture, based on Web services, that allows integrating information from different systems that compose the multimedia digital library, is presented and analyzed.

Design and development of a virtual library and a SOAP/Z39.50 gateway using Java technologies

This article describes the design and development of a virtual library, which pretends to give some contributions to the solution of some problems and issues pointed out in some research projects in this domain. The development of a SOAP/Z39.50 gateway is also described as an intermediary solution for the bibliographic information systems moving to simpler protocols in order to improve interoperability among them, using open technologies like Java and XML.

Transparency in the national assemblies of Portuguese speaking African countries: Adapting the bungeni parliamentary system — The case study of Sao Tome and Principe

The Internet exists in our reality as the fastest way to provide information, whether institutional orfrom the so-called social networks. Thus the E-Government services began to emerge globally in the last decade and are now taken for granted in modern society. However, this is not the reality in all countries. The work described in this article aims to bring attention and attempts to fill a technological need in the Lusophone African countries. This need is due to a low investment on the implementation of E-government services. On this assumption, the article intents to demonstrate the case study of an application in a E-Government Parliamentary scenario inside the National Assembly of Sao Tome and Principe. The implementation of such a service allows for a increased efficiency in documental management on the Assembly and also provides a degree of transparency in parliamentary activities, which would once be impossible to convey.