The Knowledge Base
What is a Knowledge Base?
The Knowledge Base's definition describes a special kind of database for knowledge management. It provides the means for the computerised collection, organisation, and retrieval of knowledge but also provides consistent and relevant information.
What is the HealthGrid knowledge base concept?
New perspectives in healthcare have come out (thanks to Grid technologies) and have turned as obvious benefits in health issues requiring large-scale information-gathering and processing operations like for instance national breast-screening programmes or bio-banks.
It is on the above observation consecutive with rapid technology development, which the knowledge base has started.
The knowledge base goal will overall be used to roadmap the challenges to come. This efficient tool will allow gathering remarkable information in healthcare sector and making a real communication space for all interested people. With this venture regarding participant interest about knowledge base tool use, the project will provide a specific framework for exchanging best practices and experience, and enables common approaches to shared problems to be developed over time in order to give a real credibility at this tool.
So, the Knowledge base is organised in 9 different parts: projects, organisations, people, printed documents (like : article & preprints, theses, proceedings), presentation & talks, applications, multimedia & outreach (like: photos, press, brochures, posters, movies), conferences, wiki pages. It gathers all the necessary elements to know all the exact project details, which are information you might need.
What kind of assets does the HealthGrid knowledge base procure to you?
This is the most important question. Why would you participate to the HealthGrid knowledge base?
If more and more people participate and contribute the HealthGrid knowledge base, the information will be more apposite and interesting for all. This efficient tool, which allows the share of information, opens the possibility of significant progress regarding all researches and biomedical projects.
Consequently, all key in information allow constituting a comprehensive compendium of national and EU initiatives including an analysis of strengths and gaps.
Besides, this knowledge base will help to identify common interests, co-operation incentives and collaboration among the funding authorities, to facilitate the pooling of results, best practice and evaluation methods, as well as a more coherent approach towards standardisation and international collaboration.
This contributes to go further in research and avoids back actions, to reinvent the wheel each time.
In brief, this knowledge, unique and powerful tool, favours the consolidation researches regarding biomedical and healthcare community. This is the reason why, it is very important that you contribute at HealthGrid knowledge base.
How to consult the HealthGrid Knowledge base ?
To use the tool, you must go on knowledge base website from the HealthGrid portal. You put in then your keyword and you obtain all the results picked over with all the category above.
How to contribute?
You must register to you on the knowledge base website. As soon as you have registered, you can start to enrich the HealthGrid Knowledge Base by creating and / or editing information related to your projects, events or conference dates.
It is important for you to hnow that you can add information on first-written documents. Please click on the knowledge ID number to succeed your action.
If your entries do not appear immediately, this might be due to see fact that you did not commit your document or that software might need some time to edit these information on the the HealthGrid knowledge base website. If after some time, you still do not see any information apparing, please do not hesitate to send us an e-mail.
Please have a look at: http://kb.healthgrid.org
