Modeling and implementing a health information provider on the Internet.
OBJECTIVE
To model and implement a medical web portal providing access to well qualified and high-quality information.


METHODS
The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) knowledge sources of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and an Information Sources Catalog (ISC) resulting from the ARIANE project are described. The XML technology that allows files transformations by the means of XSLT is briefly presented.


RESULTS
The design and implementation of software modules that exploit knowledge sources, operate the translation of a user's query to selected information sources, and wrap obtained results are detailed.


CONCLUSIONS
Current implementation and wrapping perspectives are discussed in terms of integration and interoperability of health information resources.
Aymard
Sylvain
S
LERTIM, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
Falco
Laurent
L
Dufour
Jean-Charles
JC
Joubert
Michel
M
Fieschi
Marius
M
D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D039781:PubMed; D012660:Semantics; D012985:Software Design; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014584:User-Computer Interface