zMedline: a Medline-based Content Management System.
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Content Management Systems (CMS) have been used for over a decade to organize knowledge within a community framework. They are often developed as customizable applications that cater to the storage, processing, management and delivery of document contents within the scope of an enterprise. CMS applications thus make for the easy distribution and management of documents, with modern implementations including things like user management and portal technology. Here, we examine the utility of Open-Source CMS to organize and present knowledge based on Medline citations.
We have been developing a Web-based portal, zMedline, which harnesses the document management and delivery functionalities of state of the art CMS tools. Our goal is to create a publicly available CMS portal site that will serve as a readily customizable interface to Medline citation data. The current version of zMedline enables users to perform customized MeSH-based queries to retrieve citations from Medline. These queries can be stored into a user profile, and automatically run on a regular schedule. When queries retrieve results that have not been viewed by the user, an email notification is sent. Based on the MeSH terms used for a given user’s queries, user profiles are generated. These user profiles are then used to initiate virtual communities of users that can facilitate collaborative networking opportunities.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: Chif Umejei, Indra Neil Sarkar
Institution: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2165326995