Pooling the Tools

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Pooling the Tools. Indexing Resources for a Specialist Subject Portal in the 21 st Century. Lynn Caldwell, Knowledge Services Adviser Anne Welsh, Former Information Specialist NHS Education for Scotland. The Knowledge: Newsletter of NES Knowledge Services, July 2008; 4: 2. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Pooling the ToolsIndexing Resources for a

Specialist Subject Portal in the 21st Century

Lynn Caldwell, Knowledge Services Adviser

Anne Welsh, Former Information Specialist

NHS Education for Scotland

The Knowledge: Newsletter of NES Knowledge Services, July 2008; 4: 2.

Fiona Stewart, Lynn Caldwell and Annette Thain. A Scottish recipe for Knowledge Management: [presentation to the HLG Conference 2006]. http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/46F8087A-8A88-4F43-8422-B5628F2B4B6F/0/ScottishRecipeforKnowledge.pdf

Fiona Stewart, Lynn Caldwell and Annette Thain. A Scottish recipe for Knowledge Management: [presentation to the HLG Conference 2006]. http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/46F8087A-8A88-4F43-8422-B5628F2B4B6F/0/ScottishRecipeforKnowledge.pdf

MMS standards & subject heading schemes:

• Dublin Core (core metadata format)• AACR2 (cataloguing standard)• MeSH• IPSV (Government Category List)• CareData

This provides an interoperable framework which can incorporate other databases and harvest external content

The resources section of the community, managed by NES, contains a range of pre-defined “expert” searches.

Their topics were selected by the Clinical Lead in consultation with her professional network

Extract from crawl mapping for NLH Later Life Specialist Library

Extract from the FAST Authorty Index

One tiny extract of the search strings, written either in FAST or OVID query language.

Since 2004, with the launch of the first MKNs and Specialist e-Libraries for cancer, coronary heart disease and mental health we have been refining our interpretation of MKNs and improving the support we offer. As a logical extension of the personalization services ... We recognized the need to provide tools to enable access to the personal, tacit knowledge of individuals.

Lynn Caldwell, Sandra Davies, Fiona Stewart, Annette Thain and Ann Wales. Scottish toolkit for knowledge management. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 2008; 25: 125-134.

Traditional “browse-list” taxonomy (orange) alongside social tagging by users (lilac)

The Knowledge, July 2008

NHS Education for Scotland. Corporate plan 2008-9: 28.

www.nes.scot.nhs.uk

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