------------------------------
4th OMNI Annual Seminar
Wednesday, 18th November, 1998
Part of MEDNET '98
St. Thomas' Hospital, London
------------------------------
There are 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. We have a
The fee for the all-day seminar is 170 pounds; however, LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS PAY ONLY 100 POUNDS i.e. A SAVING OF OVER 40%.
In addition, STUDENTS PAY ONLY 65 POUNDS, and LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MEMBERS
WHO ARE STUDENTS PAY ONLY 35 POUNDS.
====
The full programme of 9 speakers 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 metadata
* 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)
...which delegates can book for from the same booking form. Details of the
contents of the workshop from the OMNI seminar '98 page:
http://omni.ac.uk/seminars/seminar98/
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 is
worth checking out the whole programme, as it goes up, to see what other
happenings are of interest.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|