MeerKat managing information overload within Cochrane and beyond

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MeerKat - managing information overload within
Cochrane and beyond
Judy Wright, Suki Kaur, Cochrane Schizophrenia
Group

• Open source software that manages references and
  efficiently collects and organises information on
  distinct research studies

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Simplified Structure of MeerKat
RESEARCH STUDIES
RESEARCH REVIEW
Smith 2001
Review of effectiveness Of drug A by A. N.
Other
Kaur, S. et al
Adams 2004
Brown 1987
Zhang 1995
Kinon 1999
Info feedback on when a ref and study is used in
a review
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Merging and Fingerprinting the future.

• Aim to keep distinct studies, duplicate studies
  are merged when identified
• Identifying studies for merger is fairly manual
  and time consuming at present
• Fingerprinting and clustering techniques to
  automatically identify potentially similar studies

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Mental Health Library a study based database
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Mental Health Library a study based database
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Useful Links

• http//www.leeds.ac.uk/csg
• http//www.update-software.co.uk
• http//www.bci.gb.com
• http//www.cochrane.org