Norwegian Electronic Health Library Search project

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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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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 cant find it, its 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

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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!

• rue_at_helsebiblioteket.no
• ktj_at_helsebiblioteket.no

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