Before we all go for another round of "my project list is better than your project list", let me point the thread was about the Spirit Link Exchange service, not the Spirit software index.
This is a separate service that holds links to interesting articles, rather than links to software development projects. Most of the links are to press articles, papers, or sites containing a variety of resources of interest to the open source health care community. Also, it's really not fair to the other members of the Spirit consortium to call it "Brian's site". While, I am the editor of some of the data, the software for the index component was primarily developed by Conecta and the European Commission was the primary funding source. The software index and link exchange do not favour European projects or links, it really depends on who decides to enter something. Since the subject of project lists has come up, there are a variety of reasons for differences in the projects listed in different sources and the information that is kept: 1) Because Minoru is producing a commercial CD-ROM of open source software, we need to be very particular about licensing details and compliance with the open source definition. All of the lists contain projects that are not open source, however. 2) The Spirit software index is multilingual, so we need project descriptions that are not going to change frequently. 3) We don't present subjective evaluations of the projects, just statistics and links to information maintained by the project itself. 4) We have a commercial focus so the software index is designed to link to vendor information and promotional material. 5) We encourage projects to highlight peer reviewed articles in the scientific literature that evaluate the clinical and cost impacts of their approach as well as articles about reference sites. 6) The Spirit software index is designed to serve as a primary or secondary download point for software source code and to hold source code from "orphaned" projects. The subtleties are that the lists serve different needs and audiences. -Brian Ignacio Valdes a �crit : > > Jon Edwards wrote: > > >Hi Brian, > > > >Is there any way your list of links can be pulled onto ther sites? Perhaps > >an RSS feed, or something like dmoz.org does? > > > >Hmmm maybe someone should start a dmoz category for open-source healthcare > >software, then we could all use that one central resource to put links on > >our sites? :-) > > > >Cheers, Jon > > > >Jon Edwards > >Pricom Ltd > >www.pricom.co.uk > > > <Shameless plug for LMN warning> > > Don't know about Brian's site, but Linux Medical News has most of the > same stuff, and has an rss feed as well that many sites already pick up. > E-mail me off the list and we can set it up. The difference between > Brian's and mine is that Brian's is more Europe-centric although LMN > does cover International as well. On the other hand, LMN doesn't have a > Europe bureau and Brian has a much better view of the Eiffel tower than > I do here in Houston. Of course, we think it is just a Texas sized oil rig. > > </Shameless plug for LMN warning> > > -- > -- Ignacio Valdes, Editor: Linux Medical News > http://www.linuxmednews.com > 'Revolutionizing Medical Education and Practice' -- Brian Bray Minoru Development Corporation; Minoru Development SARL The home of Openhealth(tm): http://www.openhealth.com 3, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris France +33.6.8750.2465
