title: Extending the role of a healthcare digital library environment to support orthopaedic research.
abstract: A digital archive, together with its users and its contents, does not exist in isolation; there is a cycle of activities which provides the context for the archive's existence. In arguing for the broadening of the traditional view of digital libraries as merely collections towards the processes of collecting and deploying, we have developed an extend ed digital library environment for orthopaedic surgeons which bridges the gap between the undertaking of experimental work and the dissemination of its results through electronic publication.
authors.affiliation: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK. tmb@ecs.soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miles-Board
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wills
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Power
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stenning
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grange
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D046609:Libraries, Digital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009985:Orthopedics; D006113:United Kingdom