Maintaining a catalog of manually-indexed, clinically-oriented World Wide Web content.
With no quality controls and a highly distributed means of posting information, finding high-quality, clinically-oriented content on the World Wide Web can be difficult. Maintaining a catalog of such information can be equally challenging. CliniWeb is a catalog of quality-filtered and clinically-oriented content on the Web designed to enhance access to such information. This paper describes a group of semi-automated tools have been developed to maintain the CliniWeb database. One allows easier identification of content by utilizing Web crawling techniques from high-level pages. Another allows easier selection of content for inclusion and its indexing. A final one checks links to help keep the database current. These are augmented by general plans to adopt more detailed metadata and linkages into the medical literature.
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Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, USA.
Ball
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Day
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Masterson
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Zhang
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Sacherek
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000379:methods*; D002377:Catalogs as Topic; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D013358:Subject Headings