title: Modeling and implementing a health information provider on the Internet.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: LERTIM, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aymard
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Falco
authors.forename: Jean-Charles
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Dufour
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joubert
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fieschi
mesh_terms: 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