The use of Dublin Core metadata in a structured health resource guide on the internet.

Abstract

The objective of the Catalogue et Index des Sites Medicaux Francophones (CISMeF) [1, 2] is to describe and index the main French-language health resources to assist health professionals in their search for electronic information available on the Internet. CISMeF is a project initiated by the Rouen University Hospital (RUH).* CISMeF began in February 1995 with the creation of the RUH's Website. In December 2000, the number of indexed resources totaled more than 9,700, with an average of fifty-one new sites added each week. CISMeF uses two standard tools for organizing information: the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus from the U.S. National Library of Medicine [3] and the Dublin Core metadata format [4].