QoLT Mine – Creating a Knowledge Base Linda Hartman, Missy Harvey, Roye Werner, and Debbie Murphy

1. QoLT Mine – Creating a Knowledge Base Linda Hartman, Missy Harvey, Roye Werner, and Debbie Murphy Overview QoLT Mine captures, documents, combines and analyzes relevant research and published literature on all aspects of the QoLT initiative. We are creating a unique knowledge repository for researchers to use, and identifying a universe of associated terminology for this new interdisciplinary research area. Refine Discover Process • Search and retrieve literature • Survey/interview information users • Scientists • Engineers • Students • Entrepreneurs • Consumers • Clinicians • Government (regulators, research agencies) • Mine resulting documentation to capture terminology • Use bibliographic tools to document and combine search results • Use data mining and text analysis tools to evaluate results • Where is the knowledge being published? • How is it organized? • Identify top journals, authors, organizations, and industry leaders • Determine the “vocabulary universe” that defines QoLT • Search numerous databases using relevant terms • Create growing knowledge base • Share preliminary results to obtain feedback • Document search strategies and controlled vocabulary • Experiment with what search strategies work best • Strategies vary from database to database • Compile competitive intelligence data Progress • EndNote • Creates bibliographies of search results • Interfaces with most databases, allowing for export of abstracts • Exports into RefViz for further analysis of results • RefViz • Enables you to search multiple data sources simultaneously • Creates overviews of literature search results from EndNote • Provides an additional level of analysis to existing reference collections and enables you to find the most relevant citations