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World Wide Web as an infrastructure for medical informatics

World Wide Web as an infrastructure for medical informatics. Changes initiated by the Web. Changes in access to documents Shift from bibliographic records to full documents as a result of use of information tools. Shift from using information in printed media to using information in e-media.

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World Wide Web as an infrastructure for medical informatics

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  1. World Wide Web as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  2. Changes initiated by the Web • Changes in access to documents • Shift from bibliographic records to full documents as a result of use of information tools. • Shift from using information in printed media to using information in e-media. • Shift from locally available information sources to networked information sources (with web as a basic infrastructure. • We reached the point where the position of a document is unimportant – mode of access is always through network. Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  3. Changes in access to documents Friday lectures on network technology will deal with this topic Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  4. Changes initiated by the Web • Changes in document publishing • Web standards has extremely simplified the publishing and distribution of published documents. • Natural form of (scientific) document is hyper-textual and multimedia. • E-documents gained new expressive power if compared to paper documents. Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  5. Changes in document publishing The lecture “Network publishing and mark-up languages” will deal with this topic Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  6. Changes initiated by the Web • Changes in organization of documents and information tools • To organise documents means to organise pointers to documents (and sometimes subject description of documents). • Discovery of documents to be put in databases and their indexing is done automatically. • Two basic organisational models: web directories and web databases. • Two derived organisational models: web portals and (cooperative) web catalogues. Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  7. Changes in organisation of documents and information tools Lecture “Organisation of documents on Web” will deal with this topic Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  8. Changes initiated by the Web • Changes in attitude to documents • In public databases good documents are mixed with mediocre and phoney documents • There is no direct assurance of quality and truthfulness of documents provided by web information tools. • Old rule, let the publisher decide on document’s quality, isn’t useful anymore. • One must use a set of ad-hoc rules and intuition to decide. Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  9. Changes in attitude to documents Lecturette “Quality of web documents” and Fridays lectures on network security measures will deal with this topic Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  10. Changes initiated by the Web • Changes in the attitude of authors towards the accessibility of their documents • Web accessibility still doesn’t bring the same benefits as accessibility on paper but, trends are clear: from paper document to e-document. • Increasing number of authors put their documents on web. • Institutions, mainly academic, are taking over the responsibility for organisation and web accessibility of their local documents. • Generic name for these initiatives is Open archives. Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

  11. Autors’ attitude to accessibility Lecture “Open archives, Open access” will deal with this topic Alpe Adria Master Course :: Medical Informatics :: Dr. J. Dimec: WWW as an infrastructure for medical informatics

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