MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'federated'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:33:24 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2160253&cid=t_216389_86_f&fid=34461&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigicmb.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fscienceroll-medical-search-new.html ScienceRoll Medical Search is a new federated search tool created by Bertelan (Berci) Meskó together with PolyMeta. Scienceroll Medical Search is a personalized medical metasearch engine. You can choose the databases you want to search in and exclude any of them to make your search as individualized as possible. ...The aim is to create a useful, editable metasearch engine for the entire medical community.And it does what is said:there are 4 major search categories (Basic Health Information, Drugs, Organizations and Research Information) with all together 23 "databases" which can be selected by choice.it delivers fast results (within 10 second) presented in manageable merged first setwith an " Also Consider" advicea clustered overview of Topics, Date and Formatin a relevance ranked orderI ... DigiCMB blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2160253 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:49:00 +0100 2160253 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2076960&cid=t_216389_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsandnsurf.medbrains.net%2F2008%2F12%2Fmednar-the-health-search-solution%2F Mednar is a one-stop federated search engine designed for professional medical researchers to quickly access information from a multitude of credible sources. Researchers can take advantage of Mednar’s many tools to narrow their searches, drill down into topics and discover new information sources. Mednar  is here and it is good. Check it out medical librarians, public library staff, [...] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2076960 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:38:21 +0100 2076960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2021277&cid=t_216389_86_f&fid=34461&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigicmb.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fpurplesearch-library-toolbar-federated.html PurpleSearch is a new innovative search discovery tool developed at the Library of the University Groningen. Currently only students and staff of RUG and UMCG can access it, but for the curious searchers and librarians some demo accounts are available. The project email address is There is a project blog, but most technical details are in the project wiki - It is in a beta, and many usefull web 2.0 features already developed are not yet visible. As a test I have added a selected databases list to the search box of the Central Medical Library Toolbar. Any search put in that searchbox will be " limited" to the following databases: Embase.com, Pubmed, PiCarta, Cinahl, Cochrane, SocIndex, Web of Science and the UMCG Repository. One of the features is a Query Analysis that offers other releva... DigiCMB blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2021277 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:17:00 +0100 2021277 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1297707&cid=t_216389_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6580 Mike Stoker, former Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisor and Chairman, California Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Mike Stoker, an attorney whose practice emphasizes land use, government, and business law, and who is the volunteer Chairman of the John McCain Presidential Campaign in Santa Barbara County will be addressing the Conejo Valley Republican Women today. The topic of his speech: “The Gameplan to Keep the White House.” The details: General Meeting, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:30 am – Thousand Oaks Inn – Banquet Room – 75 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd. Cost $20 per person – reservations required – rsvp by email to srbranigan.srb@verizon.net The speech will be recorded by public access cable television if you cannot make the event today. (Source: Fullosse... FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1297707 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:10:03 +0100 1297707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=698182&cid=t_216389_86_f&fid=35595&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftunaiskewl.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F26%2Fmore-on-federated-search%2F librarian.net and The Chronicle both covered the Thomas Mann piece I wrote about yesterday today.  The Chronicle coverage is interesting primarily because of its comments. Here’s the one I mean: “My experience with librarians, at least in scientific university libraries (I’m a scientist) is that they are basically incapable of anything beyond using the keywords in their database. The reason is that they have absolutely no idea about what they are cataloguing. If I walk to a librarian and I say “I’d like a book discussing the various definitions of computable reals”, I’m sure she’ll pull a face and input “computable reals” in her database. If the books were not tagged in this precise way, she’ll find nothing. I’m unsure how humanities libraries are staffed, ... omg tuna is kewl blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=698182 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:44:22 +0100 698182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=695380&cid=t_216389_86_f&fid=35595&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftunaiskewl.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F25%2Ffederated-searching-in-medicine%2F I finished up the Harry Potter books on Saturday, just in time for tomorrow’s release of Order of the Phoenix on Playstation, so I can finally take a minute to stop neglecting this blog. Federated search has been on my mind again recently, due to a number of factors.  One, at work, federated search came up again as something we should look into.  Two, I met with a rep of a federated search product.  Three, the excellent report/article by Thomas Mann called, “The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries” (PDF), came to my attention today via David Weinberger’s blog. I don’t think I’ve been entirely secretive about my dislike for federated searching, but reading Mann’s report pretty much seal... omg tuna is kewl blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=695380 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:31:14 +0100 695380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=604530&cid=t_216389_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F116075319%2F Somewhere in my feed reader (apologies for not remembering the source), there was a press release announcing Scitopia, a collaboration between a number of publishers to use a federated search engine to find articles as they are released. Due for release this summer, there was actually quite a lot of press around Scitopia. The search technology of choice has been developed by Deep Web Technologies, which specializes in federated search. The service is free and is being positioned as a better search for scientific content, i.e. one with a superior signal-to-noise ratio than Google or other search engines. The deep web engine will search both journal content, as well as conference proceedings. Without seeing it in action, there is not much to say, other than hope that Scitopia will not forget... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=604530 Sat, 12 May 2007 06:27:54 +0100 604530 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=472592&cid=t_216389_86_f&fid=34461&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigicmb.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Flivetrix-library-20-metalib-mashup.html In Pictogram 7 (Februari/March) an interesting article was published about a Metalib (Ex-Libris) improvement project, called LiveTrix. Based an analysis of log-stats we could conclude that a lot had to be improved to prevent the massive amount of zero result and errors in searching. Together with special technical design of xml modules a lot of library 2.0 elements are already implemented and there is more to come. The article is in Dutch, but there is a presentation available in English. Literature: 1. Bergman, K.T. (2001). The deep web : surfacing hidden value. The Journal of Electronic Publishing. 7(1). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html 2. Lewandowski, D. & P. Mayr (2006). Exploring the academic invisible web. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006071... DigiCMB blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=472592 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:10:00 +0100 472592