You can enter the database in two ways: through a specific theme (food processing, agro-ecological farming systems, etc.) or through the multi-theme search.

Theme Access

For each theme, the available information covers the six previously mentioned groups of records: "experiences and practices", "organisations and resource persons", "equipment and technologies", "bibliographical references", and "multimedia documents".

With the exception of the thematic and geographic glossaries that are shared by all themes, each theme uses reference lists that are, for the most part, specific to each theme (type of activity for organisations, type of equipment, etc.). Similarly, some types of information are specific to each theme, notably the fields used to describe experiences.


Multi-Theme Access

This access mode allows users to search the ensemble of thematic databases simultaneously, selecting all 6 folders or a selection of folders (users can, for example, search for all the experiences in a given country in all themes).

Since each theme functions independently using specific reference lists, multi-theme searches are limited to those elements shared by all themes: the thematic and geographic glossaries.


Choosing Your Language: French or English

You choose your working language for the database at the InterDev home page.

Currently only French and English are available.

The bilingual operations take into account the following elements:

• the user interface (screens, messages, on-line help),
• the reference lists (countries, keywords, fields of activity, etc.)

Each information producer, however, works in his or her own language. The data entered using the reference lists are automatically translated but the descriptive information (organisation descriptions, experience analyses, document summaries) are not translated and therefore appear in the language in which they were entered into the database.