Intelligent Support for Resource Quality Evaluation and Description in Health Information Portals

Jue Xie, Frada Burstein, Joanne Evans · 2008

Quality control is a critical issue in online health information provision, where domain experts play an important role in evaluating and selecting quality and relevant resources to meet health consumers' individual knowledge needs. This research aims for a semi-automated approach to tackle challenges domain experts encounter in resource quality evaluation and description in the context of health information portals. This paper reports on the first stage of this research in which the domain experts' needs for intelligent supports are investigated. From this analysis, the architecture of a domain expert dashboard is proposed, where quality framework is distinguished among a suite of tools.

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