Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To design and implement a medical web portal providing access to well qualified and high-quality information in the framework of universities and hospitals. METHOD: Based on the authors experience and the published literature, a model is proposed which describes the properties of documents in an object-oriented way. This model clearly separates from usual properties: the subject of a document as keywords, and information concerning its type, format, and location. RESULTS: An implementation has been done with an existing software that allows the capability to organize and index a web site according to the model. Experiments have been conducted which demonstrate the feasibility and the utility of such an approach. DISCUSSION: The benefits for the users, both designers and end users, of using such a portal are discussed. Forthcoming works are described.
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