The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content delivery
Background Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds are a method for disseminating and syndicating the contents of a website using extensible mark-up language (XML). The Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) distributes recent additions to the site in the form of an RSS feed. When new resources are added to P...
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| author | Judas Robinson Simon de Lusignan Patty Kostkova Bruce Madge A Marsh C Biniaris |
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| description | Background Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds are a method for disseminating and syndicating the contents of a website using extensible mark-up language (XML). The Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) distributes recent additions to the site in the form of an RSS feed. When new resources are added to PCEL, they are manually assigned medical subject headings (MeSH terms), which are then automatically mapped to SNOMED-CT terms using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus. The library is thus searchable using MeSH or SNOMED-CT. Our syndicate partner wished to have remote access to PCEL coronary heart disease (CHD) information resources based on SNOMED-CT search terms.
Objective To pilot the supply of relevant information resources in response to clinically coded requests, using RSS syndication for transmission between web servers.
Method Our syndicate partner provided a list of CHD SNOMED-CTterms to its end-users, a list which was coded according toUMLS specifications. When the end-user requested relevant information resources, this request was relayed from our syndicate partner's web server to the PCEL web server. The relevant resources were retrieved from the PCEL MySQL database. This database is accessed using a server side scripting language (PHP), which enables the production of dynamic RSS feeds on the basis of Source Asserted Identifiers (CODEs) contained in UMLS.
Results Retrieving resources using SNOMED-CT terms using syndication can be used to build a functioning application. The process from request to display of syndicated resources took less than one second.
Conclusion The results of the pilot illustrate that it is possible to exchange data between servers using RSS syndication. This method could be utilised dynamically to supply digital library resources to a clinical system with SNOMED-CTdata used as the standard of reference. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41719f2888bb4ee9b9d235562a910ee32022-12-21T17:12:51ZengBCS, The Chartered Institute for ITJournal of Innovation in Health Informatics2058-45552058-45632006-12-0114424725210.14236/jhi.v14i4.636578The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content deliveryJudas RobinsonSimon de LusignanPatty KostkovaBruce MadgeA MarshC BiniarisBackground Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds are a method for disseminating and syndicating the contents of a website using extensible mark-up language (XML). The Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) distributes recent additions to the site in the form of an RSS feed. When new resources are added to PCEL, they are manually assigned medical subject headings (MeSH terms), which are then automatically mapped to SNOMED-CT terms using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus. The library is thus searchable using MeSH or SNOMED-CT. Our syndicate partner wished to have remote access to PCEL coronary heart disease (CHD) information resources based on SNOMED-CT search terms. Objective To pilot the supply of relevant information resources in response to clinically coded requests, using RSS syndication for transmission between web servers. Method Our syndicate partner provided a list of CHD SNOMED-CTterms to its end-users, a list which was coded according toUMLS specifications. When the end-user requested relevant information resources, this request was relayed from our syndicate partner's web server to the PCEL web server. The relevant resources were retrieved from the PCEL MySQL database. This database is accessed using a server side scripting language (PHP), which enables the production of dynamic RSS feeds on the basis of Source Asserted Identifiers (CODEs) contained in UMLS. Results Retrieving resources using SNOMED-CT terms using syndication can be used to build a functioning application. The process from request to display of syndicated resources took less than one second. Conclusion The results of the pilot illustrate that it is possible to exchange data between servers using RSS syndication. This method could be utilised dynamically to supply digital library resources to a clinical system with SNOMED-CTdata used as the standard of reference.https://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/article/view/636computer communications networksdigital librariesmedical subject headingsprimary careSNOMED-CTUnified Medical Language System |
| spellingShingle | Judas Robinson Simon de Lusignan Patty Kostkova Bruce Madge A Marsh C Biniaris The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content delivery Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics computer communications networks digital libraries medical subject headings primary care SNOMED-CT Unified Medical Language System |
| title | The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content delivery |
| title_full | The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content delivery |
| title_fullStr | The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content delivery |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content delivery |
| title_short | The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content delivery |
| title_sort | primary care electronic library rss feeds using snomed ct indexing for dynamic content delivery |
| topic | computer communications networks digital libraries medical subject headings primary care SNOMED-CT Unified Medical Language System |
| url | https://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/article/view/636 |
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