A search tool based on 'encapsulated' MeSH thesaurus to retrieve quality health resources on the Internet
Stéfan Jacques Darmoni, T. Benoit, PHILLIPPE LEROY JEAN, DOUYERE MAGALY, Lacoste Benoit, Godard Christophe, R Isabelle, Brisou Martial, VIDEAU STEPHANE, Goupy Eric, Piot Josette, QUERE MYRIAM, OUAZIR SAIDA, Abdulrab Habib · Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine · 2001
In the year 2001, the Internet has become a major source of health information for the health professional and the Netizen. The objective of Doc' CISMeF (D'C) was to create a powerful generic search tool based on a structured information model which 'encapsulates' the MeSH thesaurus to index and retrieve quality health resources on the Internet. To index resources, D'C uses four sections in its information model: 'meta-term', keyword, subheading, and resource type. Two search options are available: simple and advanced. The simple search requires the end-user to input a single term or expression. If this term belongs to the D'C information structure model, it will be exploded. If not, a full-text search is performed. In the advanced search, complex searches are possible combining Boolean operators with meta-terms, keywords, subheadings and resource types. D'C uses two standard tools for organising information: the MeSH thesaurus and the Dublin Core metadata format. Resources included in D'C are described according to the following elements: title, author or creator, subject and keywords, description, publishers, date, resource type, format, identifier, and language.