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HISI Conference , 19 November 2008
Sharing public health information
Kevin P Balanda, IPH
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Institute of Public Health in Ireland
All-Ireland body: North-South co-operation Inequalities in health
Broad view of health and its determinants
Three work strands: Capacity building Policy support Information and intelligence -
INIsPHO
2008/2009 – 10 year anniversary
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Sharing public health information
How do we ensure that • Policy makers / clinicians / practitioners
/ others get information when they need it?
• The experience of policy makers and practitioners is considered?
• People also get the other contextual information they need?
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AIeHL – how it works
The AIeHL is a network of interoperable websites
All member websites contribute relevant resources
No repository, only a central metadata cache
XML feeds to the metadata cache
AIeHL website searches that central metadata cache
To retrieve a resource, visitor is directed to the member website that contributed it
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AIeHL - management
AIeHL Advisory Group
AIeHL Members Working Group
Working towards meeting standards of the Health Sciences Libraries Group (HSLG)
Formal participation in development of a number of international encoding schemes
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Some current members
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Addressing technical issues
Agreed core metadata standards:• “Subject” - PHL mapped to SNOMED • “Type” - PHRTES
Agreed tagging of resources
Modification to member websites
XML feeds
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Addressing organisational issues
More widely disseminate their resources
Places their resources in a broader context
Maintain “ownership” and “control”
Increases resources available to their visitors
It increases traffic to all member websites
Democratic” - agreed rules / all benefit equally/ different levels of participation
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Challenges ahead
Opportunity to develop a rational approach: content / quality / library standards
Management of growth (new members / use in two new research centres)
Promoting awareness of the library
Resources / funding
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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