AFRO-NETS> SHARing point - New one-stop health information system

[Dieter Neuvians MD <neuvians@mweb.co.za>]

SHARing point - New one-stop health information system
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SHARing health information from around the globe! Find people and 
their activities like projects, journal articles, abstracts and mail-
ing list postings from Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America. 

We are happy to announce a new site to exchange information in the 
SHARED Network (Scientists for Health and Research for Development): 
the SHARing point server that you can find at:
http://sharingpoint.shared-global.org

This application was launched during the CRICS 6 meeting in Puebla, 
Mexico last week and is a product based on Collexis® Fingerprint 
technology: The content of a text is represented by a Fingerprint, a 
small and unique representation of the text. Collexis® technology 
uses a thesaurus to find keywords in text from the source documents 
or in a query text. It exploits the synonyms to recognize the key-
words in the text and to estimate the relevance of the keywords for 
denoting that text. A series of keywords with their relative weights 
together representing a text are referred to as a conceptual Finger-
print.

The site is working in multi-language environment. It has been 
started with English, French and Spanish. Portuguese will be added 
soon and new languages will be added as new developments occur in the 
Network. 

In the three verticals of the SHARing point server you find different 
data sources. A search is performed by default in the SHARED Network 
pillar, but as soon as you get the results, you can look up the re-
sults also for the other two pillars (Online Journals, Medline 96 to 
02). You even see directly how many results you can expect there. 

Especially in the SHARED pillar, different types of information are 
considered reaching from project description and publications to ab-
stracts and mailing list postings - indicated with a small icon. 
These documents are written in English, Spanish or French and you may 
query them in all of these languages.

The great news for AFRO-NETS is that more than 7,000 postings from 
the AFRO-NETS archive might be included in your search.

Enjoy to new tool.

Best regards,

Dieter Neuvians
AFRO-NETS Moderator
mailto:neuvians@mweb.co.za
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