The WRAPIN proposal will
extend the evaluation of HON services to the users with additional
tools. This evaluation will be done for the services as they already
exist by now to the stage of the new extensions that we have
considered: more databases accessible with their information content
being indexed by MARVIN and the new facility to promote automatic
editorial policy. This part of the process will be based upon an
extensive use of Medline and PUBMED as well as national registries
about medical trials.
Objectives:
The main objectives of
WRAPIN are the following:
- Set-up of a
semi-automatic editorial policy service, which is an extension of
the current Health on the Net Foundation services using the HON
Code;
- Expansion of HON select services to better help query
formulation over the Web;
- Interconnection and access to
additional scattered databases using in particular Natural language
processing tools;
- Integration of the tools developed in the
SYNEX EU Project for managing the access to distributed and
scattered databases as well as for implementing restricted areas
using a Public Key Infrastructure;
- Integration of user
profiles to e-mail services to individuals and citizens in order to
provide more tailored services and information to HON customers.
Work description:
The Health On the Net Foundation (HON)
is an international non-governmental organisation established in
Geneva since 1996 with purpose of providing on-line reliable,
trustworthy advice to patients and individuals initially based only
upon the HON code services.
Regular online use of evaluation
questionnaire regarding quality and accuracy of services has been
collected since HON's creation. Thanks to HON's growth activities
new trends have been identified that all converge towards the need
for online automatic editorial policy coping jointly with the growth
of medical health information on the Web.
The conceptual
design and the implementation stage are described in the proposal
and in appendixes. Indeed the growth of medical information of any
kind has become so tremendously huge that the assumption of
feasibility based upon "reading committees" has been rejected by
the professional librarians as being unrealistic. At the opposite
extreme one realistic approach is being demonstrated to go through
the use of software robots evolved from MARVIN/MEDHUNT or similar.
In addition, it is highlighted that the Web growth itself is
not exclusively dependent upon the MEDLINE growth documentary
information in NLM but also upon the increasing number of
specialised databases from all over the world and that they are
potentially, if not presently, accessible from the Web, either from
medical professional associations or even from national registries.
An inventory of the main databases of medical/health
interest is part of the proposal. Standardised procedures about
connectivity with HON and remote databases will be explored,
implemented and tested. A corresponding database directory will be
set-up.
In addition to the present time evaluation of HON
platform, the so called "semi-automatic editorial policy" and the
remote databases connectivity has been realised and is avalaible
into full production world-wide.
Milestones:
1. Evaluation of present stage plus elaboration of new
specifications.
2. Start of development according to
specification.
3. Pre-production with
tests.
4. Full worldwide production and
evaluation of the WRAPIN Prototype from different type of users.
| Project details | |
| Project Reference: IST-2001-33260 | Contract Type: Preparatory, accompanying and support measures |
| Start Date: 2001-09-01 | End Date: 2003-10-31 |
| Duration: 27 months | Project Status: Successful Completion - Public Scientific Report |
| Participants | |
| Health On the Net Foundation | SWITZERLAND |
| Thales Informations Systems Sa | FRANCE |
| Geneva Universitary Hospitals | SWITZERLAND |
| Nice Computing | SWITZERLAND |
| Laboratoire d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Traitement de l'Information Medicale | FRANCE |
| Ministry of Employment and Solidarity | FRANCE |
| XRpartner | FRANCE |