title: Automatic indexing in a drug information portal.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this work is to create a bilingual (French/English) Drug Information Portal (DIP), in a multi-terminological context and to emphasize its exploitation by an ATC automatic indexing allowing having more pertinent information about substances, organs or systems on which drugs act and their therapeutic and chemical characteristics.
  
  
  METHODS
  The development of the DIP was based on the CISMeF portal, which catalogues and indexes the most important and quality-controlled sources of institutional health information in French. DIP has created specific functionalities and uses specific drugs terminologies such as the ATC classification which used to automatic index the DIP resources.
  
  
  RESULTS
  DIP is the result of collaboration between the CISMeF team and the VIDAL Company, specialized in drug information. DIP is conceived to facilitate the user information retrieval. The ATC automatic indexing provided relevant results in 76% of cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Using multi-terminological context and in the framework of the drug field, indexing drugs with the appropriate codes or/and terms revealed to be very important to have the appropriate information storage and retrieval. The main challenge in the coming year is to increase the accuracy of the approach.
authors.affiliation: CISMeF, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen. Sakji.Saoussen@chu-rouen.fr
authors.forename: Saoussen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakji
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Letord
authors.forename: Badisse
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dahamna
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kergourlay
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joubert
authors.forename: Stéfan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Darmoni
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D001331:Automation; D004346:Drug Information Services; D005060:Europe; D005602:France; D020407:Internet; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations