Transcript Kjell Tjensvoll - OhioLINK Research Databases

ICOLC San Francisco, April 2008
Norwegian Electronic Health Library
Search project
Kjell Tjensvoll, Consortium Manager
About us
 Publicly funded enterprise
 Mission
– E-only library
– Free and equal access for all health personnel, health
students and government agencies in Norway
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Problem
 Link portal
 Information resources
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3500 medical journals
Bibliographic indexes
Decision support
Drug information
Laws and regulations
Guidelines
More
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 Not user friendly
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Multiple interfaces
Time consuming
Hidden content
Difficult to find
clinically relevant
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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
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Out of the box functionality
Technology
Admin interface
Rapid deployment
Price
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Relevant search for
health personnel
Two search possibilities
1. Limited search
• Clinically relevant
• Fewer sources
• Only crawled sources
• Faster
2. Comprehensive
search
• All sources
• Both crawled and
federated sources
• Slower
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Search delimiters
What
• Language
• Information type
• Source
• Topic
• Vivisimo clusters
• Norwegian/English
dictionary
Why
• Language is a major barrier
when making a query
• Decreasing bias by
encouraging users to filter
search results
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User test December 2007
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Plans for the future
 Crawl more information
 Spotlighting
 Web 2.0
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Share search notes
Share search results
Communities of practice
Voting
Wikis
more
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 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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[email protected]
THANK YOU
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