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NHS Shared Learning. Deepal Desai NHS Education for Scotland, Knowledge Services Group. NHS Scotland e-Library National online knowledge service for Scotland’s health and social care.
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NHS Shared Learning Deepal Desai NHS Education for Scotland, Knowledge Services Group
NHS Scotland e-LibraryNational online knowledge service for Scotland’s health and social care • Serving a multiplicity of audiences, e.g. Clinical and non-clinical NHS staff, medical and nursing students, social care staff, patients and public • Providing extensive range of content type (over 500 ebooks, over 5000 ejournals, 50 databases, clinical guidelines, policy documents, patient information) • From many different content providers, e.g. OVID, EBSCO, Emerald, NLH, Scottish Government www.elib.scot.nhs.uk
NES e-education strategy - 2008 Scottish Government Health Department, 2008 Vision: The long term vision is of learning, technology and healthcare delivery working and co-evolving in synergy across NHS Scotland, to embed learning in healthcare practice and policy and in development of the healthcare workforce, services and organizations.
Delivering on the Strategy NHS Shared Learning www.sharedlearning.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Shared LearningNational online repository • Launched October 2008 – Beta form • Available to all NHS staff and partner services to access, create, share and re-use e-learning resources across NHS Boards and partner organisations. • Free open access service • Creative commons Licenses • Workflow system to manage Quality Assurance of resources • Create and packaging tools – My knowledge map
Other Key features • A dedicated user interface • Built and integrated with FAST technology • Providing extensive range of content type and from many different content providers, e.g. Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS), NeLH, elibrary, NHS boards, University of Aberdeen, BBC, Good practice
A single searchable index of content is created Content is either 1) CRAWLED into FAST, (using inbuilt or bespoke crawlers ) 2) IMPORTED into FAST, using a number of connectors – eg OAI-Harvesting, direct database connection, XML import. FAST Enterprise Search engine Single FAST Search Index
NLH Images (LOM format) Depositing into Intralibrary repository IRISS Resources (LOM Format) eLibrary resources Sword API Sword API scripts IntralibraryRepository (LOM format) http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD
Indexing into FAST ESP FAST Index Intralibrary Repository OAI Protocol http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html http://www.fastsearch.com/
Searching on FAST Index keyword Query FAST Index Filters Results
Challenges • Persuading to contribute • Open access fear • Tracking and recording of learning • Depositing resources in LOM format • Updating mechanisms - need to put in place system for updating content, e.g. via OAI harvesting, or other scheduled updating mechanisms • Information management work: Substantial initial outlay required to map into index profile and to test that content has populated the profile as required
More information • Faiyaz Shaik – Lead Systems Developer faiyaz.shaik@nes.scot.nhs.uk • Sandra Davies – Information Architect sandra.davies@nes.scot.nhs.uk • Deepal Desai – e-Learning Manager deepal.desai@nes.scot.nhs.uk • Dr Ann Wales – Programme Director for Knowledge Management ann.wales@nes.scot.nhs.uk