Bavarian State University in Second Life is OPEN for public! See already 4 quick&dirty movies at Healthinfo Island TV

• Opening and intro
• Opening Presentation & Movie
• Tour of the site and spectacular fireworks (New!)

Read more about the service and plans at: http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Virtuelle_Services_in_Second_L.2264.0.html (in German) (creation of the movies : recorded screencast with SMART board software, edited -and combined with mp3 songs, with Windows Movie Maker Tags: secondlife, sl, virtual worlds, bavarian, bavarian state university, library
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A Guidebook to Virtual Worlds http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/a-guidebook-to-virtual-worlds/ "free, downloadable book" The Association of Virtual Worlds has published The Blue Book: A Consumer Guide to Virtual Worlds. This free, downloadable book provides a guide, with links, to over 250 virtual worlds along with a glossary. Included are virtual environments for every age group ranging from Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow, Creebies, and Frenzoo, to one of my faves - Neopets, Planet Cazmo, and Scions of Fate. Coming soon: The Green Book: A Business Guide to Virtual Worlds. Tags: virtual worlds, secondlife, sl, blue book
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Today a new German SIM called "Insel der Information" (Island of Information) of the Bavarian State Library, will be opened by the Avatar of the RL Deputy Director General at 5pm CET, (8:00 AM SLT). They will have Music, Fireworks etc. The event was announced earlier (in German) at the website of the Library The Bavarian State Library in München wants to be innovative, explorative and possibly even leading on 3d-media and new Internet-developments in connection to library services. Tags: Second Life, SL, Virtual Library, SIM, Bavarian State Library, Bayerische StaatsBibliothek, München
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I keep getting amazed about the great resources, exhibitions, games and other interactive information that is available of the websites of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
This week I did look at the wonderful exhibitions and projects of the History of Medicine Division.
The current exhibition in the NLM Rotunda is called Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health.
And I also found a project called Turning the Pages (TTP) . "At the Turning the Pages kiosk in the History of Medicine Reading Room cloak room, visitors can "turn the pages" of Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, a beautifully illustrated 18th century book of medicinal plants. You can also veiw the online version of Turning the Pages. "
I just could not stop myself trying to implement these books in the NLM Toolbar.
Here is how this looks right now:
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A final project report from the Alliance Library System marks the latest chapter in an exciting experiment funded by the Greater Midwest Region of the National Library of Medicine (GMR/NNLM). The report is available here. The project, entitled “Providing Consumer Health Outreach and Library Programs to Virtual World Residents in Second Life” provided outreach to virtual medical communities, health training and information for residents of Second Life, links to consumer health resources, one-on-one support to residents, and part-time staffing for HealthInfo Island.

Carol Perryman, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an experienced medical and consumer health librarian, coordinated the project. She stated, ” Participation in such an environment challenges the creative imagination. What is a library collection in a place where proprietary resources are out of the question? We feel collaboration is part of the answer.”

“We are thrilled to have been part of this exciting and ground-breaking new project and providing quality health information to residents of Second Life,” said Kitty Pope, Executive Director of the Alliance Library System. “Virtual worlds hold great promise for people with chronic health conditions and for people seeking information on health.”

Working with Perryman on the project was Guus van den Brekel, Coordinator of Electronic Services, Central Medical Library, University Medical Center, Groningen. Tom Peters, CEO of TAP Information Services, evaluated the project and authored the final report.

On HealthInfo Island, the first version of World AIDS day was observed, along with a class on finding quality AIDS and HIV information, a series of presentations by health educators and support group leaders whose “real life” locations were all over the world. A “Path of Support” created by a member of the disability community called the Heron Sanctuary, displays some of the more than 70 health support groups active in Second Life. Other events included a panel discussion about design for accessibility, a presentation about grassroots activism for disability activitists, and a casual question-and –answer session with a diabetes support group and an internal medicine physician in Greece.

For more information, please contact Carol Perryman at cp1757@gmail.com (or me ;-))

The report is available here. Tags: infoisland, healthinfo island, secondlife, sl, report, als, alliance lirbary system, nlm, virtual worlds
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I mentioned MediGo, a new Dutch Medical & Health Care Search engine, before. Now MediGo is also available (besides the searchbox in javascript they offer on the website):

• as Netvibes UWA widget Add to Netvibes Also available for:
  • iGoogle
  • Apple Dashboard
  • Opera
  • Windows Vista beta
  • Windows Live beta
• as Widgetbox widget
• and as Facebook application.

Tags: mediGo, widget, facebook, netvibes, medical, healthcare, health, medicine
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How to make a widget from -for instance- your library catalogue?
See The Movie!
Here is a case report, step by step, on the case of the Library Catalogue of http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/uj/katalog?cleanup=2007091813345419441&skin=default&lng=pl

• At the Library of the Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Care, they have a library toolbar that already includes this Catalogue Search. Have a look at: http://bibliotekaizp.ourtoolbar.com/
• This Toolbar includes 8 different (library) search engines, including the Catalogue.

Steps to The Widget:

1. Use the Conduit Toolbar ID to create a html page with a search box
2. Use a default test html-page, like this PubMed-page
3. Make it suitable for the Catalogue Search as Netvibes UWA.
4. Find a host for the html/xml webpage
5. Submit a New Widget to Netvibes.

See the rest of the info at: LIBRARYTOOLBAR.BLOGSPOT.COM
OR ... watch the movie.
Tags: netvibes, uwa, widget, gadget, toolbar, conduit, library, catalogue, university library, UJ, Jagiellonian, poland
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I had not seen this before, somehow, but it looks really nice. And some reputable organizations and staff show up on the listings on the featured slides! www.slidesOnline.org is a "web resource designed to facilitate educational process of medical professionals. ... Academic faculties and clinicians in practice from worldwide have contributed to the web portal. We would like to invite you to share and enhance the sharing and collaborative development of this educational resource." The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) is really added value and offers a quick way to find presentations that are NOT found that easy. They also offer a range of collected blogs with specific topic info. Tags: google custom search, cse, health, medicine, education, presentations, slides, slidesonline, medical
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So far I have made a few widgets via Widgetbox.com. First just to test, but more and more I see they offer nice and growing possibilities to distribute widgets.

• Catalogus Bibliotheken RuG by Namro

  De Catalogus van de Bibliotheken van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

• NCRC Biblioteka

  by Namro

  This blog is about the work of the one-woman medical library of the National Cancer Research Center (NCRC) of Serbia in Beograd. Ana Ivkovic writes about medical information, developments and newsworthy items.

  More in: hiv, bookfair, sl healthinfo island

• LiveTrix

  by Namro

  livetrix "federated search" web2.0 search discovery metalib

  More in: search, federated, discovery

• Second Life Library Project

  by Namro

  infoisland.org

  More in: web20, library20, secondlife

• Pub Med (+RUGLinks)

  by Namro

  The Pubmed search that offers you the RUGLInks functionality ánd the result tabs you are used to. pubmed nlm ncbi medline cmb umcg rug ruglinks

  More in: ncbi, ruglinks, pubmed

• Bibliotheek 2.0

  by Namro

  blidget van de Bibliotheek 2.0 NING ;-)

  More in: library20, web20, communities

• DigiCMB

  by Namro

  Thoughts and actions of Guus van den Brekel, Coordinator of Electronic Services, Central Medical Library (CMB) The CMB is a medical library in the north of the Netherlands, part of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and one of the...

  More in: blogs, web20, library20

• NLM Search Solutions

  by Namro

  The National Library of Medicine has great search & news resources that an be used also from this Search widget or from one of the NLM Toolbars via http://nlmtoolbars.blogspot.com. You can install them at once via http://nlm.ourtoolbar.com

  More in: search, pubmed, medlineplus

Tags: widgetbox, netvibes, widgets, gadgets, pubmed, nlm, catalogue, second life
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I just made 2 two widgets via Widgetbox to :

• make our library initiative of the search & news widgets on our Netvibes Universe more public via social networks that accept widgets from Widgetbox. They currently offer more options, for instance the instant Facebook- integration
• explore how easy it is to make a Facebook application via Widgetbox.

Search & News Widget: http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/search-news-widgets-for-you-from-your-library (In Facebook)

NLM Search Solutions: http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/nlm-search-solutions Yes, this is also avaliable as Netvibes UWA widget.
It uses the same source url, but this way (via Widgetbox) I can easily turn this into a Facebook application.
Widgetbox offers a load of embed options: Add to:
Tags: widgetbox, netvibes, widgets, library, medical, health, search, news, NLM, national library of medicine, ncbi, nih, pubmed, medlineplus, facebook
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Making widgets is as easy as making web-content, once you know how to do it. It is great fun to see how much use it is to many. Please let me know if you would like some kind of widget for your library or resource, and we will work something out. Universal Widget API's ( Add to Netvibes, iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Windows Vista beta, Windows Live beta)

• Search PubMed (+RUGLinks) (324 installs)
• Search PubMed (85 installs)
• MedlinePlus Search (159 installs)
• NLM Search Solutions (88 installs)
• Search UpToDate (63 installs)
• LiveTrix Search (51 installs)
• Search Catalogue Libraries of the University of Groningen (50 installs)
• A-Z List E-Journals RUG (42 installs)
• UMCG in PubMed : new publications! (RSS, 16 installs)
• PiCarta (40 installs)
• Search Embase.com (26 installs)
• Helsebiblioteket Search Solutions (47 installs)
• Search BIBSYS (26 installs)
• Search Medigo (20 installs)
• Search MedWorm (19 installs)
• Search Mesh term Swedish-English! (19 installs)
• E-Books Search NCRC (17 installs)
• Dermatology Atlas Search (1 installs)
• Second Life Search (94 installs)
• Second Life Search (35 installs)
• Libris Search (7 installs) NEW!
• WUR Library Search Solutions (2 installs) NEW!
• Search NL Biblioblogsphere! (0 installs)NEW!

Mini-Api ("old", and not visible in Universes)

• Consumer Health and Patient Education (426 installs)
• PubMed Search (638 installs)
• Haz-Map Search and More (365 installs)
• Second Life Search (1190 installs)
• MedWorm (691 installs)
• MedlinePlus (581 installs)
• BioMedicalLibrariesBlogs Search (545 installs)
• KMLE Medical Dictionary (538 installs)
• ToxSeek (538 installs)
• SearchingRadiology (296 installs)
• Dermatology (Tab, 230 installs)
• Snelzoekbalk van de Bibliotheek van de Bibliotheek van A'dam (519 installs)
• Helsebiblioteket QuickSearch (464 installs)
• DermAtlas (456 installs)
• MesH Search Swedish & English (423 installs)
• Search the Helsebiblioteket (403 installs)
• De NL Biblioblogosphere (367 installs)
• QuickSearch CMB (Metalib RugCombine, QuickSearch set Medicine 303 installs)
• QuickSearchBox CMB (219 installs)
• NCRC Biblioteka SearchBox (90 installs)
• Medlib rss collection (63 installs)

Tags: widgets, gadgets, netvibes, uwa, mini-api, opensocial, pubmed, nlm, medline, uptodate, livetrix, umcg, picarta, embase, helsebiblioteket, bibsys, libris, mesh, ncrc, dermatology, secondlife, sl, search, wur, wageningen, haz-Map, medworm, kmle, toxseek, dermatlas, cmb
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Vollee has just released a video demonstrating its Second Life application running on an actual mobile phone. Check it out as a Resident explores, chats and interacts through out the Virtual World. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwRnjbkljnc The service will be made available for free to anyone with a 3G phone who signs up for the Beta trial by visiting http://www.vollee.com/secondlife. The open Beta is starting end of May and will be rolled out through the month of June. If you have a compatible phone you will be contacted at that time to get your free download of our Second Life client.

The full list of supported phones will be on our site at time of launch, but keep in mind that we are constantly adding new phones. Should you have questions you can contact sl@vollee.com

Tags: secondlife, sl, second life, mobile, phone, vollee
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One of the most special talks of ELAG2008 was the presentation about the new well designed portal by Libris. The looks are refreshingly clear, and the theories behind it sound logical to me. A very structured way of tackling the design of user-centered design. User centered design and the next generation OPAC - a perfect match? / Henrik Lindström, Martin Malmsten and Kristin Olofsson (Libris, Stockholm) Especially the talk by Martin Malmsten on iterative development will be a pleasure to watch again, as soon as the movies as public!
I was surprised to see a great overview for users to implement the Libris search in their own sites with bookmarklets, searchboxes & plugins.

As a sign of support I made them a Netvibes UWA widget on the fly during their presentations: http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/237820/libris-search
Tags: libris, user-centered design, ucd, sweden, netvibes, searchbox
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The Idea and impact of the Semantic Web still has still not sunk in convincingly at most of the ELAG 2008 participants, despite of some good talks. Especially Laura Hollink from the Vrije Universiteit had a detailed presentation.

• Semantic WEB opportunities / Laura Hollink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Be sure to read the accompanying article in pdf as it contains additional info.

but also the final results by the

• Workshop 6: Semantic Web and library applications by Luit Gazendam and Véronique Malaisé and

• Becoming a good Semantic Web Citizen - it's about availability by Martin Malmsten from Libris was interesting.

Tags: elag2008, elag, wageningen, semantic web, sw, semantic
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For the Dermatology Department in the UMCG I have created long-ago a MyNCBI for an email alert of 5 of their top journals. - Arch Dermatol - Brit J Dermatol - Eur J Dermatol - J am Acad Dermatol - J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol.

• Just as an example I made them a special TAB in the CMB Netvibes Universe with 5 seperate RSS-feeds, a search box and some bookmarks to their collection overview
• I now created this into an RSS-feed too via PubMed with Feedburner to be abled to display the feed anywhere I want, and in different formats like this wonderful "headline animator"from feedburner:

↑ Grab this Headline Animator

Subscribe to RSS headline updates from:
Powered by FeedBurner

Tags: dermatology, netvibes, tab, universe, UMCG, MyNCBI, pubmed, rss, library
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The first International Virtual Association of Surgeons (iVAS) meeting will be held on April 22nd 2008 at 11:00am PDT (+9 = 21.00 A'dam time) at the lecture theater on the Second Health campus (an SLurl is posted below). It is not restricted to surgeons, and all those interested in simulation, education and technology in healthcare are most welcome. The program is (PDT Time):

• 11:00 am Welcome and introduction to iVAS James Kinross and Julian Leong, Imperial College London, UK.
• 11.10 am Serious Story Development: Modeling Virtual Patients As Characters (Keynote): Professor LeRoy Heinrichs -Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies (SUMMIT), USA.
• 11.40 am Eye tracking in surgery, Mr. Marios Nicolaou, Plastic Surgery SPR, St. George's Hospital, UK.
• 12.00 pm Building a surgical robot Dr. Mitch Lum and Hawkeye King, BioRobotics laboratory University of Washington, USA.
• 12.20pm Closing remarks: Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College London, UK
• 12.30pm Questions and networking

http://slurl.com/secondlife/National%20Health%20Service/132/127/26/?title=Our%20NHS%20Our%20Future The inaugural International Virtual Association of Surgeons (iVAS) conference will occur on April 22nd 2008. The conference will be run in the same manner as a real-world conference, with key note addresses from internationally recognised leaders. The editorial board will consist of experts in the field from Imperial College London, Professor Ara Darzi and Professor Guang-Zhong Yang. The abstract call on surgical technology, robotics, simulation and education can be found at http://ubimon.doc.ic.ac.uk/iVTags: iVAS, International Virtual Association of Surgeons, surgery, secondlife, sl, secondhealth
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It was my first visit to ELAG, and am still surprised that I never bumped into one of those 31 previous meetings, or read reports about them before.
After three days I can concluded that the Wageningen version was of good quality sessions through out all three days. I will describe the most interesting for me.

The Wageningen Library Content Management System / Peter van Boheemen
The Wageningen UR organisation and Library did show vision and the courage to act upon it in an early stage. I always liked their Wageningen Desktop Library and now they have build a complete Library Management System.
Peter van Boheemen's presentation lists all the reasons why they did it and shows us how it is done. He states that it is wise for libraries to have their own IT & programming staff.
Designing it this way they can act fast on new developments, avoid further vendor lock-in and keep in control themselves. Tags: ELAG2008, Wageningen, Library, CMS, WUR
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I just want to let you know that I had the pleasure and honour to meet HVX Silverstar in real life at the European Library Automation Group 32nd Conference, where she did a presentation about Second Life & Libraries (http://library.wur.nl/elag2008/presentations/elag_bernadettefinal_april152008.ppt) The session was completely streamed and recorded and will be published on the website soon. Furthermore Bernadette and I helped out the organization in doing a SL workshop, as the original moderator did not show up. The workshop was spread over the 3 days and covered in total about 4 hours. I also did a Lightning talk about "Closing The Gap": interoperability between Sl & The Web. You can see more details about the conference (delicious, hashtags, flickr, slideshares, twitterstream and more) at my Netvibes Universe Tab: http://www.netvibes.com/cmb#ELAG2008Tags: elag2008, secondlife, sl, hvx silverstar, namro orman, libraries
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It is too short ago yet to have a complete listing of all subjects I heard new and good things about, but you could already have a look at the netvibes tab that I have created for this event:
www.netvibes.com/cmb#ELAG2008

You will find the Twitter history, via Hashtag (#elag2008), all flickr pictures tagged ELAG2008, slideshared presentations & links to the website & papers. Soon you will be abled to view and listen to all plenary and lightning talks!

Tags: elag2008, #elag2008
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They have a great building, wonderfully designed and a cool person tracking camera in the conference room, but no wireless access. I could not stop myself asking Wowter about that.... He condemmed the bloggers and twitters to the back with long yellow cables ;-) More pictures tagged with ELAG2008 Tags: elag2008, wireless, forum, wageningen
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