Table 1.
Distribution of target population across interest/source groups
| Group Description* | Email Addresses, No. |
Survey Respondents, No. (%) |
| Personally approached at AADR, ADEA 2006 | 113 | 28 (24.8) |
| Authors of 620 DI papers | 910 | 58 (6.4) |
| AMIA DI working group member list | 44 | 13 (29.5) |
| IMIA DI working group member list | 133 | 24 (18.0) |
| Bioinformatics researchers with dental interest | 11 | 3 (27.3) |
| ADEA TechnoFair authors (2004, 2005, 2006) | 369 | 48 (13.0) |
| Current DIOC members | 211 | 92 (43.6) |
| 2003 DI conference participants | 82 | 15 (18.3) |
| MLIS community | 110 | 6 (5.6) |
| MLA (randomly selected 385 of the 3850-member directory) | 385 | 6 (1.6) |
| 280 funded informatics researchers (randomly selected 100) | 100 | 1 (1.0) |
| 9000 funded dental researchers (randomly selected 300) | 300 | 14 (4.7) |
| Total | 2768 | – |
| Total after eliminating duplicates | 2609 | – |
| Total after eliminating duplicates and validating | 2303 | 256† (11.1) |
*AADR, American Association for Dental Research; ADEA, American Dental Education Association; DI, dental informatics; AMIA, American Medical Informatics Association; DIOC, Dental Informatics Online Community; MLIS, Master of Library and Information Science; MLA, Medical Library Association.
†Total number of respondents is smaller than sum of group respondents because some individuals belong to more than one group.