Apologies if you receive this message more than once.
OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information) has held an
Annual Seminar each year since 1995. The seminar has
presented news of OMNI's achievements and plans, alongside
presentations from other significant players in the health &
biomedcal Internet world. This year's OMNI seminar will once
again be the ideal opportunity to absorb new ideas and have your
preconceptions challenged. It will feature papers describing some
of the new digital library paradigms such as "Hybrid Libraries" and
"Landscapes", plus descriptions of some new and important
projects in health information on the Internet.
There are still places left at the OMNI annual seminar, and at the
workshops, so if you haven't booked yet and are keen, then you
still can.
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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 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=
,
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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OMNI: Organising Medical Networked Information
http://omni.ac.uk
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N.B.
If you have previously booked for the OMNI annual seminar, then
you should receive a confirmation and some instructions this week.
All of the administration, registration and logistics of this years
annual seminar is carried out by MEDNET. If you haven't heard
anything by the middle of next week, then you should contact:
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...who is dealing with the booking registrations for the whole of
MEDNET.
Frank Norman National Institute for Medical Research
Deputy Librarian The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
London NW7 1AA, UK
tel 0181 959 3666 ext 2380 email [log in to unmask]
fax 0181 913 8534 http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank
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