The Animal Health Division of Inra is gradually setting up a current awareness system with the aim of obtaining strategic support and a set of tools available on the Internet. Its aims are to facilitate direct communication with professional partners in order to establish a real dialogue, based on two complementary tools: CERISA, the animal health and veterinary public health portal, and VELISA, a French-language current awareness and literature search tool for animal health.

1. Scientific and Technical Information and Rural Development
IAALD XIIIth World Congress
Montpellier, 26-29 April 2010
Innovative i f
I ti information systems
ti t
enabling public research organizations and the livestock
industry in France
to share animal health resources and skills
Marie-Colette Fauré
INRA - Animal Health division
April 2010
Marie-Colette.Faure@toulouse.inra.fr

2. Introduction

3. Background
Agricultural activities including livestock productions
sector have to deal with crises and mutations
 Sector becoming increasingly complex
 Health crises : BSE SARS foot and mouth disease, avian
BSE, SARS, disease
influenza…
 Growing need for knowledge and increasing amount of
available information
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

4. Aims of the Animal Health Division of Inra*
Inra
The main aim : to carry out fundamental works and
targeted research in the area of animal health
A targeted research mandate : to set up on-going
and organized links with the livestock production
industry in France (socio-professional partnership)
 To find out needs from professionals (to identify key
research topics)
 To make known its field of competence and expertise and
to explain its results
 T provide reliable and accessible iinformation
To id li bl d ibl f i
*INRA : The french National Institute for Agricultural Research
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

5. A current awareness system
A project for an interactive and organized relationship
between AHD and livestock production sector.
 To improve visibility to animal health and veterinary public
organization
 Complexity of the animal health and veterinary public health
organization in France
 A wide variety of entities involved
 To share and disseminate relevant information
 To develop inter-professional collaboration through
p p g
internet.
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

6. CERISA and VELISA (1)
AHD T l available on th I t
Tools il bl the Internet
t
--> Main outcome of AHD’s socio-professional
current-awareness process on Internet.
Easy-access tools for direct use by professionals
 Tools based on Web 2.0 technologies :
 possibilities of geolocation
 syndication feed to make information available in real time
or to syndicate the content of other sites
 ergonomic interfaces.
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

7. How do we manage these projects ?

8. A reference terminology : a helpful tool for the
design f
d i of CERISA
Structuring role of the reference terminology of
animal diseases
The purpose of a reference terminology
 Organizing the collection phase
 Consoladating the information processing phase
 Simplifying access to the information access for
professionals
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

9. The construction process
Pathogen (s)) Type of disease
Disease
(selected term)
Additional note
Animal species Synonym (s)
Common term(s)
Acronym Zoonosis ?
…
Regulatory status
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

10. An exemple
Rabbit
Attention : Exemple traduit
Tularemia Francisella tularensis Bacterium
Pahvant Valley plague
Rabbit fever
Deer fly fever
Ohara's fever Zoonosis : yes
Additional note :
Additi l t
Few clinical manifestation
for the rabbit
(Oryctolagus cuniculus),
more frequent for the hare
(Lepus europeaus ou timidus)
Regulatory status
•Disease notifiable to the OIE
•Notifiable disease
(french legislation)
(f hl i l i )

11. Reference terminology : a professional tool
Terminology Use Portal
Animal species
Disease Resources
Information selection
Pathogen
P th
Type of disease
Indexation Stakeholders
Regulatory Additional
status Metadata
Zoonosis
Knowledge Professional
base tool
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

12. Reference terminology for user
Terminology Use Portal
Animal species
Disease Resources
Pathogen
P th
Navigation / Search
Type of disease
Stakeholders
Regulatory
status
Zoonosis
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

13. Information management : Priority to quality
Collecting and selecting information
 Collection phase organised with the terminology
(prioritization of the diseases, terms of queries…)
 Selection criteria to objectivize the selection
Processing and analysis to produce useful
knowledge for professionals
 Analysing information about stakeholders involved (role,
specialisation, skills…)
 Resources : full text, information accessible to a non-
scientific but well-informed public, quality of the
information…
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

14. Disseminating and sharing information

15. CERISA - The animal health and veterinary public
health
h lth portal
t l
To identify and access all the stakeholders working
in animal health and veterinary public health in France
To facilitate access to information in French on
livestock diseases and pathogens per animal species
To give professionals access to a “partner space”
where they can exchange information.
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

16. Partner space
Internal search engine
Animal species
p
Navigation menu
Disease or pathogen
Notifiable
Stakeholders diseases
Geolocation
Animal health
news
Seen in the specialized press

17. VELISA - a French-language current awareness
and lit t
d literature search t l f animal h lth
h tool for i l health
To reference professional information about animal
health found in professional veterinary or livestock
research journals
Based on this work to identify any emerging health
work,
problems on farms
To make known the regular contributions of AHD
scientists to the professional literature.
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

18. Articles written
by DSA scientists
Keywords as
navigation items
RSS feeds
News

19. In conclusion
Projects based on a close collaboration between
scientists and IT professionals
New collaboration with other scientific or technical
organizations in France and French-speaking
French speaking
countries
 could add to the quality, maintenance and development of
the system
Future development of the reference terminology on
the
th semantic web (Li k d d t )
ti b (Linked data)
 interoperability of the data and accessibility for the animal
health and veterinary public health community
Marie-Colette Fauré – IAALD 2010, Montpellier (France)

20. Thank you for your attention