CISMeF: cataloque and index of French speaking health resources.
In 1999, the Internet has become a major source of health information. The objective of CISMeF is to catalogue and index the main French-speaking sites and documents concerning health. Currently, the number of resources already totalled over 6,100 with a mean of 75 new sites each week. CISMeF contains a thematic index, including medical specialities and an alphabetic index. CISMeF uses two standard tools for organising information: the MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) thesaurus from the Medline bibliographic database (National Library of Medicine) and the Dublin Core metadata format. A brief description of the site is systematically added. CISMeF respects the Net Scoring, criteria to assess the quality of health information on the Internet. The CISMeF project fulfils a valuable tool for the French-speaking health community: 2,500 machines visit the Web site each working day.
Darmoni
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Computer and Networks Department, Rouen University Hospital.
Leroy
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JP
Baudic
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Douyère
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Piot
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Thirion
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D002170:Canada; D002377:Catalogs as Topic; D005602:France; D006295:Health Resources; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016239:MEDLINE; D013557:Switzerland; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled