Example from HILT pilot server

  1. User types in the term 'teeth' on the HILT pilot home page.

  2. Five results are returned from DDC database. User selects the fourth item, Dewey heading 'Teeth' as it refers to human anatomy (DDC 611.314), at this disambiguation stage.

  3. System looks in JISC collections/services database for items matching 611.314, 611.31, 611.3, 611. Doesn't find anything, so looks for matches on 610. Five JISC services are offered. The first one, 'Bristol Biomedical Image Archive', uses MeSH and offers the search term 'Tooth' that is mapped to DDC 611.314.

  4. User chooses to search the Bristol Biomedical Image Archive by clicking on the term 'Tooth' that is offered. This submits a dynamic remote search, and items matching this search term from the Bristol Biomedical Image Archive are returned to the user in a separate window.

  5. User looks at entry for Cochrane Library. This also uses MESH, but does not currently allow dynamic remote searching by appending a search term to a fixed partial URL, so the only option is to go to the home page. EMBASE uses EMTREE, which is not mapped in the pilot server, MIDRIB has no taxonomy recorded, so user skips these and chooses OMNI, which also uses MESH, and clicks on the offered term 'Tooth'. This submits a dynamic remote search, and items matching this search term from 'Tooth' are returned from OMNI in the same window that displayed the results from the Bristol Biomedical Image Archive.