CISMeF: a structured health resource guide for healthcare professionals and patients
Abstract
In 2000, the Internet has become a major source of health information. The objective of C ISMeF is to catalogue and index the main French-speaking health resources. In February 2000, the number of indexed resources totaled over 8,200 with a mean of 61 new sites each week. CISMeF uses two standard tools for organizing information: the Medline bibliographic database MeSH thesaurus and the Dublin Core metadata format. Resources included in CISMeF are described by the following: title, author or creator, subject and keywords, description, publisher, date, resource type, format, identifier, and language. To index resources, CISMeF uses five levels of hierarchy: "meta-term", category, keyword, subheading, and resource type. CISMeF contains a thematic index, including medical specialities and an alphabetic index. CISMeF respects the Net Scoring, criteria to assess the quality of health information on the Internet. The CISMeF project offers a valuable tool for the French-speaking health community: over 4,000 computers visit the Web site each working day.
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