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PubMed2000

The Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library Digitization Project: a case study.

This study shows the planning process and the first stages of the implementation of a project to digitize over 120,000 photographic negatives and transparencies from The Wellcome Trust's Medical Photographic Library collection. It shows how and why decisions were made and the resulting resourcing implications. Following the planning and proposal stages it details the results of tests carried out after equipment installation, and the subsequent revisions of original estimates and amendments to decisions on resolution levels. The implementation of the scanning project is described along with some modifications made to the work processes as a result of early experience of the project. In conclusion, it suggests that a constant process of review of processes, equipment and planning is necessary to maintain a successful digitization project.

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Virtual shelves in a digital library: a framework for access to networked information sources.

OBJECTIVE: Develop a framework for collections-based access to networked information sources that addresses the problem of location-dependent access to information sources. DESIGN: This framework uses a metaphor of a virtual shelf. A virtual shelf is a general-purpose server that is dedicated to a particular information subject class. The identifier of one of these servers identifies its subject class. Location-independent call numbers are assigned to information sources. Call numbers are based on standard vocabulary codes. The call numbers are first mapped to the location-independent identifiers of virtual shelves. When access to an information resource is required, a location directory provides a second mapping of these location-independent server identifiers to actual network locations. RESULTS: The framework has been implemented in two different systems. One system is based on the Open System Foundation/Distributed Computing Environment and the other is based on the World Wide Web. CONCLUSIONS: This framework applies in new ways traditional methods of library classification and cataloging. It is compatible with two traditional styles of selecting information searching and browsing. Traditional methods may be combined with new paradigms of information searching that will be able to take advantage of the special properties of digital information. Cooperation between the library-informational science community and the informatics community can provide a means for a continuing application of the knowledge and techniques of library science to the new problems of networked information sources.

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PubMed1993

[Digital library for archiving files of radiology and medical imaging].

The Conseil des Enseignants de Radiologie de France in collaboration with the Ilab-TSI company and Schering laboratories has developed a computer programme allowing the storage and consultation of radiological teaching files. This programme, developed on Macintosh from standard Hypercard and Quicktime applications, allows, in consultation mode, the multicriteria search and visualisation of selected radiological files. In the author mode, new files can be included after digitalizing the author's own images or after obtaining images from another image library. This programme, which allows juxtaposition of digitalised radiological files, is designed to be extremely open and can be easily combined with other computer-assisted teaching or computer-assisted presentation applications.

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PubMed1995

Educating physicians to use the digital library.

Skill in creating, finding, managing, and using biomedical information is a vital component of modern medical practice. Medical schools recognize the revolutionary implications of computing technology and use a number of different strategies to integrate "informatics education" into their curricula. In many institutions, leadership for this effort rests with the health sciences library and/or the department of medical informatics. Examples are presented of how nine medical schools have implemented informatics education; no single informatics-education strategy prevails, and these schools' strategies do not exhaust the possibilities. Informatics education programs will require better planning and integration in the future because of the need to keep pace with curriculum reform, the changing context of medical practice, and the speed of technological innovation.

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PubMed2001

Building a knowledge base to support a digital library.

As part of an effort to develop a knowledge base to support searching online medical literature according to individual needs, we have studied the possibility of using the co-occurrence of MeSH terms in MEDLINE citations associated with the search strategies optimal for evidence based medicine to automated construction of a knowledge base. This study evaluates the relevance of the relationships between the semantic relationship pairs generated by the process, and the clinical validity of the semantic types involved in the process. From the semantic pairs proposed by our method, a group of clinicians judge sixty percent to be relevant. The remaining forty percent included semantic types considered unimportant by clinicians. The knowledge extraction method showed reasonable results. We believe it can be appropriate for the task of retrieving information from the medical record in order to guide users during a searching and retrieval process. Future directions include the validation of the knowledge, based on an evaluation of system performance.

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PubMed2005

Blocking of pornography-seeking behavior in digital image libraries: adventures in the skin trade.

The escalating competition between online pornography - seeking and disseminating behaviors and technologies that attempt to reduce them creates technical, semantic and legal barriers to the legitimate discussion of and education about sensitive health issues involving sexuality, anatomy and pathology, especially when image-based knowledge is used. The effects of this competition on the use and management of an online dermatology atlas are described with a discussion on the importance of anticipating, addressing and controlling this problem while developing and maintaining image-based digital libraries and other e-Health applications.

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