Eero Hyvönen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland: HealthFinland - Finnish Health Information on the Semantic Web
Eero (actually from the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo), Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Laboratory of Media Technology, University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science - wow!) speaks on a prototyp semantic web, the so called HealthFinland. It's goal is to collect and distribute information on Finnish Health Information on the Semantic Web (there's also a book on this).
When listening to such systematic, all comprehensive-to-be large project, I'm always feel afraid on the immense engagement and money needed for just that simple access to information. But access to information is not that simple anymore, as librarians should know. Google has to do so much in the background to provide that search engine - and then we call it "simple"!
The promotion tells us: "There is an abundance of health-related information available on the Internet, but finding relevant information using traditional search engines remains a challenge. A lot of information is published through isolated web sites - "silos" of content that seldom link to each other. The information will be collected from a diverse group of sources including expert organizations, governmental institutes and non-govermental organizations. A quality control process will ensure that all information published through the portal is accessible, easy to understand, relevant to the topic, and factually correct. All content will be linked together using semantic web technologies: a common set of subject ontologies (YSO, MeSH, TESA) will allow the portal to link information from different sources, and ontological reasoning will be used to guide the user to relevant resources."
Lotta Haglund (Speaker] & David Herron, Karolinska Institutet University Library, Sweden: Implementing EBLIP to stimulate professional development
EBLIP (Evidence Based Librarianship Information Practice) is regarded as too time consuming to be put into practice (yeah, that's true). I quit for now - Please follow Lars' report on Lotta's talk at Nowherenorth.
Now, Lars found her cute youtube video for marketing the EBLIP5 conference in Stockholm next year (this post is in itself a proof of viral marekting, as the video infects blogs after blogs):
