Abstract:
In 1999, the Internet has become a major source of health information. The objective
of CISMeF is to catalogue and index the main French-speaking health resources. In
September 1999, the number of indexed resources totaled over 7,100 with a mean of
75 new sites per week. CISMeF uses two standard tools for organizing information:
the Medline bibliographic database MeSH thesaurus and the Dublin Core metadata format.
Resources included in CISMeF are described by the following: title, author or creator,
subject and keywords, description, publisher, date, resource type, format, identifier,
and language. To index resources, CISMeF uses five levels of hierarchy: “meta-term”,
category, keyword, subheading, and resource type. CISMeF contains a thematic index,
including medical specialities and an alphabetic index. CISMeF respects the Net Scoring,
criteria to assess the quality of health information on the Internet. The CISMeF project
offers a valuable tool for the French-speaking health community: 2,500 computer users
visit the Web site each working day.
Keywords:
Abstracting - Indexing - Catalogue - Internet - Vocabulary
