Intranet Applications and the Library

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Intranet Applications and the Library

• Mary Peterson
• Royal Adelaide Hospital /
• Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science,
• Adelaide, Australia

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Background

• Institute of Medical Veterinary Science
• Pathology laboratory research institute
• http//www.imvs.sa.gov.au
• Royal Adelaide Hospital
• Teaching hospital affiliated with University of
  Adelaide
• http//www.rah.sa.gov.au/homepage.htm

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Our users

• Clinicians (doctors, nurses, physios)
• Researchers (laboratory scientists)
• Students on clinical placement
• Diagnostic laboratory staff statewide

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Outline

• Intranet development
• What we really need to know about
• What weve done at RAH/IMVS

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Intranet development

• Server
• Conversion/creation of HTML pages
• Web authoring software
• Spiders/search tools
• Link checkers

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What we need to know

• Web authoring software
• HTML
• Adobe PageMaker, Front Page etc
• Link checkers
• BiggByte, Dr Watson, CyberSpider, Linklint
• Access checkers
• Bobby
• Our IT people!

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Finding software

• Internet search
• Tucows http//www.tucows.com/
• source of free and shareware for downloading
• rated
• local mirror sites available

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Our experience

• HTML editor - Arachnophilia
• FrontPage
• Link checker/validator - CyberSpider

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The next step

• Static - dynamic - XML

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Some resources

• The Librarians Guide to Intranet Resources
• http//slis.cua.edu/ihy/SP/KT.htm
• Understanding the Impact of Core Intranet
• http//www.3com.com/technology/tech_net/white_pape
  rs/500691.html
• Intranet applications
• http//www.iorg.com/intranetorg/chpt6.html (but
  not all the links work!)

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