Many health and medical professionals are enquiring about AI; health sciences librarians (HSLs) need a way to respond.
Caveat!: This open textbook (or wiki channel) is intended to help librarians and other information professionals learn about AI. It is not, in itself, meant to be seen as promotion of AI. If anything, the goal is harms mitigation or harms reduction.
This wiki comes seven years after closure of HLWIKI International which I started in 2007 and by 2018 had 30 million+ views of more than 1100 pages. Thankfully, this project is much smaller in size and scope. If it creates any controversy, it will be taken down immediately.
This wiki channel is a proof of concept, and may (or may not) be available after a trial period. All entries(n=50+) in this "open textbook" are in development, and the wiki channel itself is incomplete, so check any facts, concepts and suggestions with your librarian. If you have questions, start a discussion on the talk page or email Dean Giustini, UBC biomedical librarian — dean.giustini@ubc.ca.
Aims
My aim is to provide less of an encyclopedic approach re: artificial intelligence (AI) than overviews of fundamental search concepts and techniques used in support of knowledge synthesis (KS) in academic communities.
The intended audience for the entries includes medical and health sciences librarians who serve diverse populations in academia, teaching hospitals and in community - but all are welcome here. Some pages will also be useful for academic librarians, and other expert searchers, and information specialists in related areas beyond health and medicine.
Also: I make no guarantees, implied or otherwise, that we will reach the massive size of HLWIKI International but I'm always open to collaborators and recommendations for new entries. We can prove our value in the AI era by testing, researching and being ready.
Disclaimer
Note: Please use your critical reading skills while reading entries. No warranties, implied or actual, are granted for any health or medical search or AI information obtained while using these pages. Check with your librarian for more contextual, accurate information.
