Standards to enhance interoperability of information systems and efficiency of information exchange
Chalon P. X. Standards to enhance interoperability of information systems and efficiency of information exchange, 7th HTAi Annual Meeting, Dublin (Ireland), June 6-9 2010 The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) uses a lot of information sources in order to produce its HTA reports. LBI, an Austrian HTA agency, provides an institutional repository compliant to the OAI-PMH harvesting standard where HTA reports are published. Thanks to the OAI client build in our library management system (PMB), we created a connector allowing to harvest automatically and on a regular basis the records from the LBI institutional repository.No additional human intervention is needed to add to the KCE library catalogue the description of LBI publications. When conducting a search within the KCE library catalogue, our scientists get a list of results describing documents published on the LBI institutional repository, simplifying the search process of HTA reports and ensuring an up to date research. Embracing OAI standards for HTA reports repositories would allow to build a meta catalogue of HTA reports that would be updated automatically.To participate to the achievement of this objective,KCE decided to add OAI server functionalities to her library catalogue where all KCE reports are described. This will allow any OAI clients to harvest the KCE repository and offer to their users the description of our reports and a link to the full-text as soon as they are published.
Standards to enhance interoperability of information systems and efficiency of information exchange
Chalon P. X. Standards to enhance interoperability of information systems and efficiency of information exchange, 7th HTAi Annual Meeting, Dublin (Ireland), June 6-9 2010 The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) uses a lot of information sources in order to produce its HTA reports. LBI, an Austrian HTA agency, provides an institutional repository compliant to the OAI-PMH harvesting standard where HTA reports are published. Thanks to the OAI client build in our library management system (PMB), we created a connector allowing to harvest automatically and on a regular basis the records from the LBI institutional repository.No additional human intervention is needed to add to the KCE library catalogue the description of LBI publications. When conducting a search within the KCE library catalogue, our scientists get a list of results describing documents published on the LBI institutional repository, simplifying the search process of HTA reports and ensuring an up to date research. Embracing OAI standards for HTA reports repositories would allow to build a meta catalogue of HTA reports that would be updated automatically.To participate to the achievement of this objective,KCE decided to add OAI server functionalities to her library catalogue where all KCE reports are described. This will allow any OAI clients to harvest the KCE repository and offer to their users the description of our reports and a link to the full-text as soon as they are published.
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- 1. Standards to enhance interoperability of information systems and efficiency of information exchange Patrice CHALON Case http://eprints.hta.lbg.ac.at/cgi/oai2 http://kce.docressources.info/opac/ GNU EPrints PMB OAI-PMH * • Scientists search the KCE library catalogue, within a list of relevant (subsets of) repositories selected by their information specialists • Scientists get results in the KCE library catalogue • A link points to the full- text hosted by the producing agency (*) The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata • Settings must be Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent verified to avoid interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. inconsistency Conclusion Vision • Using OAI standards allows interoperability, however implementation must be carefully done. Imagine… all HTA agencies • Search is simplified: scientists search the KCE library store their HTA reports in a catalogue to get a list of results describing documents repository compliant to OAI- published externally, including the LBI institutional PMH repository • Meta data are encoded once by the producing • Publications are better disseminated: description (meta agency data) is available as soon as a report is published • Meta catalogues are automatically updated and • KCE will activate the OAI server functionalities of its allow to search all documents at once library catalogue and register her repository to repertories and meta repositories • Some meta catalogues provide additional content Contact Acknowledgments Links Patrice.Chalon@kce.fgov.be Guba Beate (formerly LBI-HTA), http://www.eprints.org/ Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) Luc Hourlay (KCE) , Tarquin http://www.sigb.net http://kce.fgov.be Mittermayr (LBI-HTA), Dominique Roberfroid (KCE) http://www.openarchives.org/