Presentation by Peter Cruickshank at LIRG LIS research resources briefing, July 10th 2012, London. Further details at http://lisresearch.org/2012/07/10/research-into-practice-lis-research-resources-briefing/

1. 
Demonstration of the ALISS engine
Presented by Peter Cruickshank as part of the
LIRG workshop “Research into practice: library
and information research resources briefing”
Tuesday 10th July 2012, CILIP, London
Slides derived from ALISS resources
http://www.aliss.scot.nhs.uk/

2. 
Making Self-Management Support more findable

3. 
2 million
in Scotland living with a long term health
condition
40%
of Scotland’s population

4. what’s the problem?
• Massive amount of information – all
disconnected
• hard to find – no matter how useful
• hard to collate and publish
• public and staff not able to easily share their
useful information
• Useful support is local, hard to capture, often
informal, no web presence

6. What to do? - ALISS Vision
designing the engine
• improve existing processes
• designed by people who are going to use it
• local control
• sustainable
• distributed control, not centrally managed
• easy to use, think of health literacy

9. ALISS engine
Improving access to support for self-management of
long term conditions
• a national-local directory
• a big (glorified) index
• a ‘curation engine’

10. In the ALISS engine, the 3 key information-service
tasks are devolved
ALISS engine it
sort it
collect it publish
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11. So a wide
variety of
info can be …managed
contributed
to the
ALISS engine (curated)
info flows
Engine, out to
and… intermediary
information
services
Centre
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15. The ALISS software stack
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16. what kind of information?
• what is diabetes?
quality assured
• what are the treatments?
• what do I do now?
• who can I talk to? local & personal
• what will it be like?
• will I cope?
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17. the range of health information
Centre
spam experience resources quality assured

18. the range of providers
Centre
spam experience resources quality assured

19. ALISS focus is self management
Centre
ALISS
spam experience resources quality assured

20. ALISS and quality-assured info
a local walking group
Partick Walking Group Index
Whether you are an experienced walker or haven’t
walked in a while, our walks are a great way to keep fit,
get to know your local area and meet new people.
All walks are free - and there is no need to book - just
turn up!However, if you are attending for the first time,
title: Partick Walking Group
please arrive 10 or 15 minutes before the walk is due to
begin to fill in a registration form with the walk leader. text: Whether you are an
Don’t worry, this only needs to be done once.
Each walk lasts an hour and begins and ends at the
experienced walker or...
locations listed below.
Partick Annexe Healthy Living CentreWalks leave from locations: G11 5PE
9A Stewartville StreetMondays, 11am-12pm (gentle
health walk). Walk leader: JaneThursdays, 2-3pm. Walk tags: walking, exercise
leaders: Jane and Angie
locations: G11 5PE
tags: walking, exercise
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21. Search
second-guessing user interests in the Partick Walking Group
“I want exercise”
Partick + exercise ✔
“I’m getting over a heart problem”
heart problem ✘
“I want to get out with my partner who’s
in a wheelchair”
wheelchair access ✘
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22. How curation helps
ALISS adds curations from people with particular interests
Resource Index
Partick Walking Group title: Partick Walking Group
Whether you are an experienced walker or haven’t walked in a text: Whether you are an
while, our walks are a great way to keep fit, get to know your
local area and meet new people. experienced walker or...
All walks are free - and there is no need to book - just turn The group offers a range of
up!However, if you are attending for the first time, please arrive
10 or 15 minutes before the walk is due to begin to fill in a walks...
registration form with the walk leader. Don’t worry, this only
needs to be done once.
Some walks are wheelchair
Each walk lasts an hour and begins and ends at the locations accessible...
listed below.
Partick Annexe Healthy Living CentreWalks leave from 9A
Stewartville StreetMondays, 11am-12pm (gentle health walk).
locations: G11 5PE
Walk leader: JaneThursdays, 2-3pm. Walk leaders: Jane and
Angie tags: walking, exercise,
cardiac, rehabilitation,
wheelchair access,
locations: G11 5PE mental health
tags: walking, exercise accounts: 83d5fe, 2847fg, 02d4j, ...
accounts: 83d5f, 2847f, 02d4j, ...
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23. Distributed collaborative curation
the sum is greater than the parts
↑ quality:
moderation & account filtering
↓ central cost
devolved admin
↑ sustainability
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24. Filtering outputs from ALISS: search
A Practice example: just our own resources
local group
library
Our practice local group
Local community
practice practice
Local practices
Local NHS
Citizens Advice
practice
local group
an example- client side tools can search ALISS however they like
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25. Filtering outputs from ALISS: search
A Practice example: trusted local community resources
local group
library
Our practice local group
Local community
practice practice
Local practices
Local NHS
Citizens Advice
practice
local group
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26. Filtering outputs from ALISS: search
A Practice example: search accounts with NHS flag
GGC
local group
NHS service
library
Our practice local group
Local community
practice practice
Local practices
Local NHS
Citizens Advice
practice
local group
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27. engineclub.org
github.com/snowcloud/engineclub
@alissproject
info@aliss.org

29. Demonstration of the ALISS engine
Presented by Peter Cruickshank as part of the
LIRG workshop “Research into practice: library
and information research resources briefing”
Tuesday 10th July 2012, CILIP, London
Slides derived from ALISS resources
http://www.aliss.scot.nhs.uk/