@inproceedings{discovery10084402, address = {Vienna, Austria}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 05) Held in Conjunction with ECDL 2005}, year = {2005}, journal = {In the proceedings of the 3rd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 05) at ECDL 2005,}, month = {September}, note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, title = {Agents in Online Healthcare Digital Library Management of the National Resource for Infection Control}, abstract = {In this paper, we describe a specification for the use of agents within the National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC - www.nric.org.uk) in the UK. The National Resource for Infection Control is an Internet medical digital library that provides a single point of access to quality appraised, evidence based information within the field of infection control. One of the most important aspects of running an online healthcare digital library is the improvement of the functionality provided to the users, in order to facilitate the transfer of information in as useful a manner as possible. Software agents can help solve some of the problems involved in this process in an efficient manner. The methods by which agents may be used in this scenario to aid the improvement of this digital library are detailed here.}, keywords = {Agents; digital library; healthcare; knowledge management; information retrieval.}, url = {http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/adams/11adams.html}, author = {Kostkova, P and Souza, D} }