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Norwegian Electronic Health Library Search project TDAG Conference, January 23rd 2009 Kjell Tjensvoll, Consortium Manager and Runar Eggen Senior adviser
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The Norwegian Electronic Health Library has applied a search engine able to recognise drugs and spotlight vital information.
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Norwegian Electronic Health Library Search project
TDAG Conference, January 23rd 2009
Kjell Tjensvoll, Consortium Manager and Runar Eggen Senior adviser
About us
Publicly funded enterprise Mission
– E-only library– Free and equal access for
all health personnel, health students and government agencies in Norway
Managed by Editor in chief– Not perceived as
authorities representative
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Our web site
Link portal Information resources– 3500 medical journals– Bibliographic indexes– Decision support– Drug information– Laws and regulations– Guidelines– More
Not user friendly– Multiple interfaces– Time consuming– Hidden content– Difficult to find
clinically relevant information
“If you can’t find it, it’s not there”
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Solution
Single search interface Tailored for health
professionals Technology?
– Federated search– Enterprise search– Both
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Why Vivisimo?
Tender process– 11 contenders– 3 finalists
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria– Out of the box functionality– Technology– Admin interface– Rapid deployment– Price
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Search delimiters
What• Bundles (data sets)• Language• Information type• Source• Topic• Vivisimo clusters• Norwegian/English
dictionary
Why• Situation based search results• Language is a major barrier when making a
query• Decreasing bias by encouraging users to
filter search results
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What does the search contain?
Not only our own site External resources Crawled and federated sources Not a library system
– Lots of metadata were already in a CMS– Automatic indexing cheaper and faster– Access to password protected sources
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Quality and precision issues
Our users: – Health professionals
Relevance and precision: – VITAL
All websites are different Poorly structured sites
difficult to crawl
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Long distance relationship
Helsebiblioteket & Vivisimo – an ocean apart
Google Docs used for all crawl descriptions
Weekly phone meetings
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Achieved
General search that finds stuff– In our website– Subscribed resources– Open Access sources
Automatic translation
Special searches – Poisoning– Guidelines– Drug spotlight
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General search: translation of search terms
Translation Norwegian-English, later Swedish & Danish
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Special search: Poisoning
Hits related to poisoning only
Drug spotlight
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If only there were standards for...
Drug information Health information Journal publishing Bibliographic databases
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The future …
Crawl more information More spotlighting Web 2.0
– Share search notes– Share search results– Voting– more
Desktop search bar Search generated content
pages Research
– Usability– Effect on clinical practice
Subscribe to specific search using RSS
Expert searches
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THANK YOU!
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