Poster Presentation 1 

Session Time: 
Sunday, May 23, 2010, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm 

Poster Board Number: 
28 

Publishing Title: 
Go Local Goes Faster: Expediting the Indexing and Auditing Processes 

Author Block: 
Christie Silbajoris, AHIP, Director, NC Health Info, Health Sciences Library; Jane Greenberg, 
Professor, School of Information and Library Science; Nassib Nassar, Senior Research Scientist; 
Michael Shoffner, Senior Research Software Engineer, Renaissance Computing Institute 
(RENCI); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 

Abstract Body: 
Objective: To develop a semi-automated system that would evaluate MedlinePlus Go Local 
metadata to improve the efficacy of current processes used to create new and review or audit 
existing records. The intention of the new system is to reduce the human time and effort required 
to build and maintain a Go Local project. Setting/Participants: An academic health sciences 
library with a Go Local project formed a research partnership with the local library and 
information sciences school and a major collaborative multi-institutional computing 
center. Description: Established audit practice requires all health services websites be 
periodically examined to check for content changes including the addition or deletion of provided 
services, phone number, address, etc. However, not every site changes during every review 
period. Off-the-shelf and open source solutions designed to notify users when sites have changed 
were evaluated but did not work in our setting. A tool was created to track sites, identify changed 
ones, and feed only those into the review or audit process, reducing the number of records 
requiring human examination. Another tool highlights our vocabulary on sites enabling quicker 
cataloging of new records. Testing of the fully integrated tools is underway.