Norwegian Electronic Health Library Search project

London Online, December 6th, 2007

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– 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

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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Relevant search for health personnelTwo search possiblilities

2. Limited search• Clinically relevant• Fewer sources• Only crawled sources • Faster

8. Comprehensive search• All sources• Both crawled and federated

sources• Slower

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Search delimitersWhat• Language• Information type• Source• Topic• Vivisimo clusters

• Norwegian/English dictionary

Why• Language is amajor barrier when

making a query• Decreasing bias by encouraging

users to filter search results

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Plans for the future

Crawl more information Spotlighting Web 2.0

– Share search notes– Share search results– Communities of practice– Voting– Wikis– more

Desktop search bar Search generated content

pages Research

– Usability– Effect on clinical practice

Subcribe to specific search using RSS

Expert searches

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THANK YOUktj@helsebiblioteket.no

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