ORGANIZING MEDICAL NETWORKED INFORMATION (OMNI)

The Internet has become a major source of biomedical information over the last 5 years. Several projects have recently been established to h elp users find respectable information sources quickly. OMNI (Organizi ng Medical Networked Information) is one such filtering and indexing p roject. OMNI has focused on the quality of information and the applica tion to Internet resources of standard tools for organizing informatio n such as the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings and the Dublin Core metadata format. Now two years old, the OMNI proje ct fulfils a valuable role for the UK biomedical community, through it s gateway service (http://omni.ac.uk), its printed resource guides and its training workshop programme. OMNI Is also a focus for biomedical metadata activities in the UK. The gateway continues to grow in size a nd further work on information quality issues and integration is plann ed.