http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/sue-welsh/ Recent content in Sue Welsh on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/10/omni-corner/ Fri, 18 Jul 1997 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/10/omni-corner/ I have never been to any US city that is anything like Seattle. This is not as impressive as it sounds at first as I have only ever been to one other US city, and that was Washington DC, but I feel confident that Seattle is something out of the ordinary. It has weather worthy of comparison with the British summer. It has an efficient and friendly bus service, free within the downtown area. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/9/midrib-launch/ Sun, 18 May 1997 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/9/midrib-launch/ A picture paints a thousand words, and in the field of medicine, images are essential. The recent launch of MIDRIB (Medical Images Digitised Reference Information Bank) [1] , and the announcement of the Visible Human Dataset UK Mirror, have demonstrated JISC’s [2] determination to provide high quality content in this area for the UK higher education and research community. Medical images are extremely diverse in both their content and modality, and can range from illustrations of medical equipment, to radiological images, to 3-D objects. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/9/omni-corner/ Sun, 18 May 1997 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/9/omni-corner/ One of the most common criticism of the World Wide Web is that much of the information published on it is ephemeral. However, ephemeral isn’t always a bad thing; the World Wide Web has become the ideal place to keep abreast of breaking news stories. The recent General Election on the UK, for example, was the first to really use the World Wide Web as a tool for disseminating campaign information and keeping up to date with analysis and the latest polls, as well as for discussion and publishing electronic manifestos. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/8/omni-corner/ Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/8/omni-corner/ The British Medical Internet Association One Saturday morning last December I found myself on an early train bound for Birmingham Airport, one of the more soulless destinations offered to the Intercity traveller. Working for OMNI, weekends have long since ceased to be sacrosanct, but on my way to the Midlands, I felt I had more than the usual cause to sigh heavily as the train was, inevitably, delayed. However, the trip was proved to be well worth the effort, as it offered the opportunity to meet the movers and shakers and witness the birth of the British Medical Internet Association. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/7/table/ Sun, 19 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/7/table/ The key medical sites described in this article are only the tip of the iceberg. To use the Internet effectively for medical information it is necessary to search the subject-based gateways. These sites do some of the hard work for you, by seeking out, evaluating, describing and indexing resources. OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information [1], is the eLib funded biomedical gateway. It offers access to more than 1300 resources in health, clinical medicine, allied health and related areas. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/7/omni/ Sun, 19 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/7/omni/ MNI is by no means the first or only of the Electronic Libraries Programme Access to Network Resources projects to experiment with using the well known and popular Harvest software to create descriptions of networked resources automatically. EEVL (the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, for example, recently announced the availability of their own Harvest experiment [1]) and non-eLib gateway projects had in any case, beaten us to it some time ago. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/6/omni-corner/ Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/6/omni-corner/ The Visible Human is one of the Internets best known sites; one of its big stories. However, the size of the Visible Human Dataset (VHD) means that most of us have no way of making use of the raw data itself. We have, so far, been more impressed by the idea than the reality. Not for much longer - last month the first Visible Human Project Conference brought together the people involved in producing the data, the researchers, information scientists and clinicians who have used it and the ignorant but curious, for two days of demonstration and discussion, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/5/omni-corner/ Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/5/omni-corner/ I’m an E.R. fan, you’re an E.R. fan and official figures indicate we’re not alone. There’s plenty of choice these days if your taste in entertainment is medical. Millions of us eavesdrop on the physician/patient relationship every week, both the medical ones and otherwise. Sometimes it is a lot more interesting than real life. However, when it comes to being sick, most of us would agree, you can’t beat a bone-fide, qualified medic.