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Delivering Knowledge for Care

NHS Shared LearningNHS Shared Learning

Deepal DesaiNHS Education for Scotland, Knowledge Services Group

Delivering Knowledge for Health

NHS Scotland e-Library National online knowledge service for

Scotland’s health and social care• Serving a multiplicity of audiences, e.g. Clinical and non-

clinical NHS staff, medical and nursing students, social care staff, patients and public

• Providing extensive range of content type (over 500 ebooks, over 5000 ejournals, 50 databases, clinical guidelines, policy documents, patient information)

• From many different content providers, e.g. OVID, EBSCO, Emerald, NLH, Scottish Government

www.elib.scot.nhs.uk


NES e-education strategy - 2008

Scottish Government Health Department, 2008

Vision:The long term vision is of learning, technology and

healthcare delivery working and co-evolving in synergy across NHS Scotland, to embed learning in healthcare practice and policy and in development of the healthcare workforce, services and organizations.


Delivering on the Strategy

NHS Shared Learning www.sharedlearning.scot.nhs.uk


NHS Shared Learning National online repository

• Launched October 2008 – Beta form• Available to all NHS staff and partner services to access,

create, share and re-use e-learning resources across NHS Boards and partner organisations.

• Free open access service• Creative commons Licenses• Workflow system to manage Quality Assurance of

resources• Create and packaging tools – My knowledge map


Other Key features

• A dedicated user interface• Built and integrated with FAST technology• Providing extensive range of content type and from many

different content providers, e.g. Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS), NeLH, elibrary, NHS boards, University of Aberdeen, BBC, Good practice


• A single searchable index of content is created

• Content is either 1) CRAWLED into FAST, (using inbuilt or bespoke crawlers ) 2) IMPORTED into FAST, using a number of connectors – eg OAI-Harvesting, direct database connection, XML import.

Single FAST

Search Index

FAST Enterprise Search engine


Depositing into Intralibrary repository

IRISSResources

(LOM Format)

NLH Images(LOM

format)

eLibrary resources

Intralibrary Repository

(LOM format)

Sword

API

Swor

d AP

Iscripts

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD


Indexing into FAST ESP

Intralibrary Repository

FAST Index

OAI Protocol

http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

http://www.fastsearch.com/


Searching on FAST Index

FAST Index

Query

Results

keyword

Filters


Challenges

• Persuading to contribute• Open access fear• Tracking and recording of learning• Depositing resources in LOM format• Updating mechanisms - need to put in place system for

updating content, e.g. via OAI harvesting, or other scheduled updating mechanisms

• Information management work: Substantial initial outlay required to map into index profile and to test that content has populated the profile as required


More information

• Faiyaz Shaik – Lead Systems Developer [email protected]• Sandra Davies – Information Architect [email protected]• Deepal Desai – e-Learning Manager [email protected]• Dr Ann Wales – Programme Director for Knowledge Management

[email protected]

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