1. Intranet Applications and the Library Mary Peterson Royal Adelaide Hospital / Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia

2. Background n Institute of Medical & Veterinary Science –Pathology laboratory & research institute –http://www.imvs.sa.gov.au n Royal Adelaide Hospital –Teaching hospital affiliated with University of Adelaide –http://www.rah.sa.gov.au/homepage.htm

6. Our users: n Clinicians (doctors, nurses, physios) n Researchers (laboratory scientists) n Students on clinical placement n Diagnostic laboratory staff statewide

7. Outline: n Intranet development n What we really need to know about n What we’ve done at RAH/IMVS

8. Intranet development n Server n Conversion/creation of HTML pages n Web authoring software n Spiders/search tools n Link checkers

9. What we need to know n Web authoring software –HTML –Adobe PageMaker, Front Page etc n Link checkers –BiggByte, Dr Watson, CyberSpider, Linklint n Access checkers –Bobby n Our IT people!

10. Finding software: n Internet search n Tucows: http://www.tucows.com/ –source of free and shareware for downloading –rated –local mirror sites available

11. Our experience n HTML editor - Arachnophilia n FrontPage n Link checker/validator - CyberSpider

12. The next step n Static - dynamic - XML

13. Some resources: n The Librarian’s Guide to Intranet Resources: –http://slis.cua.edu/ihy/SP/KT.htm n Understanding the Impact of Core Intranet … –http://www.3com.com/technology/tech_net/ white_papers/500691.html n Intranet applications –http://www.iorg.com/intranetorg/chpt6.html (but not all the links work!)