Intranet Applications and the Library

Mary PetersonRoyal Adelaide Hospital /

Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science,

Adelaide, Australia

Background

Institute of Medical & Veterinary Science– Pathology laboratory & research institute – http://www.imvs.sa.gov.au

Royal Adelaide Hospital– Teaching hospital affiliated with University

of Adelaide– http://www.rah.sa.gov.au/homepage.htm

Our users:

Clinicians (doctors, nurses, physios) Researchers (laboratory scientists) Students on clinical placement Diagnostic laboratory staff statewide

Outline:

Intranet development What we really need to know about What we’ve done at RAH/IMVS

Intranet development

Server Conversion/creation of HTML pages Web authoring software Spiders/search tools Link checkers

What we need to know

Web authoring software– HTML– Adobe PageMaker, Front Page etc

Link checkers– BiggByte, Dr Watson, CyberSpider, Linklint

Access checkers– Bobby

Our IT people!

Finding software:

Internet search Tucows: http://www.tucows.com/

– source of free and shareware for downloading

– rated– local mirror sites available

Our experience

HTML editor - Arachnophilia FrontPage Link checker/validator - CyberSpider

The next step

Static - dynamic - XML

Some resources: The Librarian’s Guide to Intranet

Resources:– http://slis.cua.edu/ihy/SP/KT.htm

Understanding the Impact of Core Intranet …– http://www.3com.com/technology/tech_net/

white_papers/500691.html Intranet applications

– http://www.iorg.com/intranetorg/chpt6.html (but not all the links work!)