Delivering Knowledge for Care NHS Shared Learning Deepal Desai NHS 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

Delivering Knowledge for Care NES e-education strategy 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 Knowledge for Health Delivering on the Strategy NHS Shared Learning

Delivering Knowledge for Health 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

Delivering Knowledge for Health 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

Delivering Knowledge for Health 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

Delivering Knowledge for Care Depositing into Intralibrary repository IRISS Resources (LOM Format) NLH Images (LOM format) eLibrary resources Intralibrary Repository (LOM format) Sword API scripts SWORD

Delivering Knowledge for Health Indexing into FAST ESP Intralibrary Repository FAST Index OAI Protocol

Delivering Knowledge for Health Searching on FAST Index FAST Index Query Results keyword Filters

Delivering Knowledge for Health 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

Delivering Knowledge for Health More information Faiyaz Shaik – Lead Systems Developer Sandra Davies – Information Architect Deepal Desai – e-Learning Manager Dr Ann Wales – Programme Director for Knowledge Management