ABSTRACT
As the number of documents referencing information reed grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to store, manage the large amount of documents and finding requested relevant documents by users. Computerized pediatrics information system (CPIS) is used to facilitate. CPIS is a general tool for building and managing Referencing system of all kinds of documents to meet user needs. It implements system management and query processing in parallel. The functions of CPIS include data collection, format standardization, information extraction, automatic classification, data loading, data maintenance, query processing, external data entering, personalized recommendation etc. This work was able to address the problem by collecting data through personal interview, observation and browsing. This data collected was processed and designed using Visual Basic 6.0. the computeriuzed system will ease the work associated with manual method of referencing information. By the time this software is implemented, the difficulties encountereed with manual reference methodm will be put to an end.
ORGANIZATION
OF WORK
This
project work is primarily designed to give an insight to COMPUTERIZED
PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM for pediatrics.
Chapter one
talks about introduction to COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM, study
of problem and objectives as well as definition of the scope.
Chapter two
comprises the literature review. Chapter three gives the detailed information
about the existing (old) system, while chapter four and five deals with the
design and implantation of new system.
Chapter six
documents the project work, while chapter seven summaries, conclusion and
suggestions were made.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Abstract v
Table of contents vii
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background
of the study 1
1.2 State of the
problem 2
1.3 Purpose of
the study 3
1.4 Aims and
objectives 3
1.5 Scope of
study 5
1.6 Limitations
of study 5
1.7 Assumptions 6
1.8 Definition
of terms 7
CHAPTER
TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW 8
CHAPTER
THREE
- Description
and analysis of existing system 15
- Fact
finding method used 17
- Organization
structure 19
- Objectives
of Existing system 21
- Input,
Process and Output Analysis 22
- Information
Flow Diagrams 26
- Problems
of the Existing System 27
- Justification
of the New System 28
CHAPTER
FOUR
- Design
of the New System 30
- Input
Specification and design 30
- Output
specification and design 32
CHAPTER
FIVE
- Implementation 42
- Source
Program: Test Run 59
CHAPTER
SIX
Documentation 60
CHAPTER
SEVEN
Bibliography 65
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUNT OF
STUDY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The
amount of documents in computerized pediatrics information system usually grows
rapidly overtime. How to store, manage and search these documents within the COMPUTERIZED
PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM is a challenging problem. Documents in COMPUTERIZED
PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM are stored as semi-structured data, while in the
traditional relational database it is stored as structured data. Relational
database management system cannot manage semi-structured data efficiently and
cannot satisfy the requirement of content-based text retrieval.
A lot of research works have been
done about semi-structured data, such as data modeling, query language for text
retrieval, index methods and text retrieval algorithms and similarity search
algorithms. These research results have been used a lot in COMPUTERIZED
PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM systems. SSREADER COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS
INFORMATION SYSTEM, the national COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM and
wanfang database are popular referencing system in china. All the referencing
system classify the documents into several classes and support querying inside
a given class. Metadata search and full-text search through a single keyword or
expressions are both supported in these referencing systems. other examples of referencing
system are greenstone COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM, uc berkeley COMPUTERIZED
PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM, tufts COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM,
acm COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM, ncstrl etc. similar functions
are supported in these referencing system, such as metadata searching,
full-text searching, documents classification and browsing. Greenstone COMPUTERIZED
PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM has a suite of software that provides management
toCPIS for creating and maintaining a COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION
SYSTEM. tufts COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM is for the integration
of collections that exist or may be developed in the future. there is a system
named lore developed by Stanford. it is a database management system for managing
semi-structured data. The ncstrl at cornell university is a distributed
technical report referencing method developed by the arpa-sponsored computer
science technical report project. The ncstrl collection is distributed among a
set of interoperating servers operated by participating pediatricss. all of the
referencing system described above do not support the following functions:
structure and content-based queries, automatic entries of external documents
and parallel document processing.
The CPIS system described in this study has the following features. (1) Generalization: It is essentially a general document database management system. It can be used to build referencing system for user needs and provides a suite of toCPIS to maintain it. (2) Parallelism. CPIS uses a lot of processors to execute queries and manage documents, which improves both storage capacity and query efficiency. (3) Structure and content-based retrieval. Users can query inside a document for an element, e.g. a chapter of a book, which not only allows users to propose for a more accurate query, but also reduce the information transmission workload in networks. (4) Personalization. CPIS can query according to user’s interest and recommend documents relevant to user. (5) Automatic external data entering. CPIS can combine with other search engines in finding and adding references automatically. (6) Multi-format supporting. DL collects a lot of document resources including books, journal papers, proceedings etc. and supports document information retrieval for a lot of document formats. (7) DLSQL query. CPIS defines a query language like standard SQL, named DLSQL. By using DLSQL, users can program and do all the operations in CPIS. (8) Automatic document classification. It creates a classifier according to the sample documents loaded by the system manager and automatically classifies documents.
A method for cross referencing material in a reference work having a plurality of portions therein, comprising the following steps:
(a) providing a reference work including a plurality of major sections, a plurality of minor sections within at least two of the major sections, and a plurality of instructional steps within at least two of the minor sections;
(b) further providing a first series of sequential numbers for referencing each of the major sections, with each of the numbers of the first series corresponding to one of the major sections in sequential order;
(c) further providing a second series of sequential numbers for referencing each of the minor sections, with each of the numbers of the second series corresponding to one of the minor sections in sequential order;
(d) further providing a series of sequential letters for referencing each of the instructional steps, with each of the letters of the instructional steps corresponding to one of the instructional steps in sequential order;
(e) indicating a specific major section, minor section, and instructional step from a first portion of the reference work in a second portion of the reference work, by placing one of the first series of numbers, one of the second series of numbers, and one of the series of letters referring to the major section, minor section, and instructional step of the first portion of the reference work, in the second portion of the reference work, thereby providing backward cross referencing in the reference work; and
(f) indicating a specific major section, minor section, and instructional step from the second portion of the reference work in the first portion of the reference work, by placing one of the first series of numbers, one of the second series of numbers, and one of the series of letters referring to the major section, minor section, and instructional step of the second portion of the reference work, in the first portion of the reference work, thereby, providing both forward and backward cross referencing in the
reference work.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Owing to:
The difficulties peoples and staff face in locating material on referencing method.
Unwillingness attitude of some staff when dealing with data/information.
Difficulties people encountered when searching for a given book title.
Time wasted in searching for book on shelve.
Time wasted in arranging books on shelve.
Important nature of referencing method in the academic growth of any learning pediatrics.
The need arise for the development of COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM for the pediatrics.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED PEDIATRICS INFORMATION SYSTEM CASE STUDY OF UNICEF
