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4th OMNI Annual Seminar
Wednesday, 18th November, 1998
Part of MEDNET '98
St. Thomas' Hospital, London
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The OMNI service announces its final call for delegates for annual
seminar no. 4. The seminar will consist of 9 speakers, many being
notable in the fields of health / medicine informatics and electronic /
digitial libraries.
The full programme of 9 speakers (complete with times and full abstracts)
is available from the OMNI seminar '98 page at:
http://omni.ac.uk/seminars/seminar98/
Presentation titles include:
* Maps, landscapes and buildings: the human dimension in information
* The future of OMNI: commercial decisions in an academic world
* A gateway to complementary and alternative medicine on the web
* Enhancing Internet medical document retrieval with medical core metadat=
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* The information landscape
* New developments of MedHunt medical search engine
* The hybrid library and medical information
* Online medical communities in the UK
* Visible Human UK mirror: establishing a mirror
OMNI is also organising two half-day workshops:
* Searching the Internet (17th November pm & 18th November pm)
* Internet Medline (19th November am)
The OMNI seminar forms one of the streams on day three of the MEDNET '98
World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, hosted by St.Thomas' Hospital=
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London. The seminar is of interest to people involved in health/medical
informatics, metadata, integration of electronic medical information,
biomedical resource quality and access issues, and related issues.
The event is located near the south bank of the river Thames, directly
opposite the Houses of Parliament. MEDNET consists of four days (the 16th
to the 19th) of speakers, workshops, presentations and other events; it i=
s
worth checking out the whole programme, as it goes up, to see what other
happenings are of interest.
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Please forward on this email to people or organisations who you think may
be interested.
Thanks,
John Kirriemuir,
OMNI service manager
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