SUSTAINING ONCOLOGY STUDIES - SOS - INFORMATION AND SUPPORT FOR TRAINING, RESEARCH AND EXPLOITATION IN CANCER AND RELATED BIOMEDICAL DISCIPLINES

This paper outlines the development of the Sustaining Oncology Studies Information Resources (SOS Europe), a multimedia World Wide Web (WWW) prototype providing support to experimental and clinical cancer resea rchers, general practitioners, industry personnel, and university stud ents in the field of oncology in Europe and Italy. The system utilizes applications developed for the WWW and is designed in the most easily understandable approaches possible. The prototype now structures onco logy-related information available on the Internet and also places res ources maintained locally at users' disposal. The system utilizes a WW W browser as a design platform and HTML to build its Home and subpages and to create hyperlinks to internal and external resources.