Sistemas de información en salud: diálogo con Pedro Urra González

In this conversation, which took place in Havana in October 2010, Pedro Urra González recounts the creation of Cuba's Sistema Nacional de Información en Ciencias de la Salud (National Information System in Health Sciences) during the 1960s and the founding of the Infomed project in the beginning of the 1990s. He describes the epistemological frameworks which supported the development of Infomed as a cultural and social process and as a place of confluence of different types of thought, based on a theory of knowledge oriented to respond to the needs of practice and transformation. Grounding himself in a conception of information systems as human, social and historical constructions which cannot be treated as artifacts disconnected from the reality that embeds them, he analyzes bibliometric indicators, the Open Access movement and such regional projects as the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and the Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (Redalyc).En esta charla realizada en La Habana, en octubre de 2010, Pedro Urra González narra el contexto de surgimiento del Sistema Nacional de Información en Ciencias de la Salud de Cuba en la década del '60 y del proyecto Infomed, del cual fue fundador, a inicios de los años '90. Describe los fundamentos epistemológicos que sustentaron el desarrollo de Infomed como un proceso social y cultural, como espacio de integración de los esfuerzos del conocimiento, basado en una teoría del conocimiento orientada a responder a las necesidades de la práctica y la transformación. A partir de su concepción de los sistemas de información, entendidos como construcciones humanas, sociales e históricas que por lo tanto no pueden ser trasladados como artefactos desconectados de su realidad, analiza los indicadores bibliométricos, el movimiento Open Access y los proyectos regionales como la Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) y la Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (Redalyc)

Estrategia para la Integración de Catálogos de Fichas Impresas de Tres Bibliotecas Cubanas al Espacio de Datos Enlazados Abiertos

En este trabajo se resumen los principales aspectos de la estrategia que se construyó como resultado del proyecto para la integración de catálogos impresos al espacio de la biblioteca digital cubana y de la WEB en general, la situación en la que se encuentra la iniciativa y se reflexiona sobre la relación con procesos paralelos de desarrollo de catálogos en línea, bibliotecas digitales y repositorios digitales del patrimonio cultural destacando las oportunidades del uso de técnicas de datos enlazados para estos fines

El proceso de digitalización para la construcción de las bibliotecas digitales cubanas. Estudio de casos

A journey through a specialized bibliography is performed to establish the terms, concepts and theoretical and conceptual aspects related to the digitization process, enabling the discussion of the results obtained through the case study literature. It also determines the state of digitization processes are conducted in a convenience sample, which represents the four library systems including the National Library, in order to obtain the state of the art, best practices, experiences, methodologies, procedures and software in the process of building digital libraries.Se realiza un recorrido por la bibliografía especializada para establecer los términos, conceptos y aspectos teóricos-conceptuales referentes a los procesos de digitalización, posibilitando la discusión de los resultados  btenidos a través del estudio de casos. Se determina además, el estado de los procesos de digitalización que se llevan a cabo en una muestra conveniente, que representa los cuatro sistemas bibliotecarios incluyendo la Biblioteca Nacional, en aras de obtener el estado del arte, las buenas prácticas, experiencias, metodologías, procedimientos y software en los procesos de construcción de bibliotecas digitales

Introduction

Welcome to Library Trends' first bilingual Spanish-English issue and the first devoted to work in Cuba. This experiment in academic publishing recognizes that new ways of thinking about research communication are in order

Introducción

Bienvenido a la primera edición bilingüe en inglés y español de Library Trends y la primera dedicada al trabajo que se realiza en Cuba. Este experimento en publicación científica reconoce que se necesitan nuevas maneras de pensar con respecto a la comunicación de investigación

Cruise Summary Report - MEDWAVES survey. MEDiterranean out flow WAter and Vulnerable EcosystemS (MEDWAVES)

The MEDWAVES (MEDiterranean out flow WAter and Vulnerable EcosystemS) cruise targeted areas under the potential influence of the MOW within the Mediterranean and Atlantic realms. These include seamounts where Cold-water corals (CWCs) have been reported but that are still poorly known, and which may act as essential “stepping stones” connecting fauna of seamounts in the Mediterranean with those of the continental shelf of Portugal, the Azores and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. During MEDWAVES sampling has been conducted in two of the case studies of ATLAS: Case study 7 (Gulf of Cádiz-Strait of Gibraltar-Alboran Sea) and Case study 8 (Azores). The initially targeted areas in the Atlantic were: the Gazul Mud volcano, in the Gulf of Cádiz (GoC) area, included in the case study 7, and the Atlantic seamounts Ormonde (Portuguese shelf) and Formigas (by Azores), both part of the case study 8. In the Mediterranean the targeted areas were The Guadiaro submarine canyon and the Seco de los Olivos (also known as Chella Bank) seamount. Unfortunately it was not possible to sample in Guadiaro due to time constraints originated by adverse meteorological conditions which obligate us to reduce the time at sea focusing only in 4 of the 5 initially planned areas. MEDWAVES was structured in two legs; the first leg took place from the 21st September (departure from Cádiz harbour in Spain) to the 13th October 2016 (arrival in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal took place the 8th of October due to the meteorological conditions that obligated to conclude the first leg earlier as planned). during the Leg 1 sampling was carried out in Gazul, Ormonde and Formigas. The second leg started the 14th October (departure from Ponta Delgada) and finished the 26th October (arrival in Málaga harbour, Spain). MEDWAVES had a total of 30 effective sampling days, being 6 days not operative due to the adverse meteorological conditions experienced during the first leg which forced us to stay in Ponta Delgada from the 08th to the 13th October. During MEDWAVES the daily routine followed a similar scheme, depending of course on the weather and sea conditions. The main activity during the day, starting early in the morning (around 08:00 AM, once the night activities were finished), was the ROV deployment. Generally a single ROV dive of around 8 hours was performed, however in several occasions two dives were carried out in the same day (see General station list, Appendix II). After the ROV (and sometimes between two dives) the Box Corer and/or Van Veen Grab and/or Multicore was deployed. After these activities, during the night CTD-Rosette deployments and MB was conducted. Accordingly to this schema the scientific personnel worked in the day or in the night watch. A total of 215 sampling stations have been covered in MEDWAVES, using the following sampling gears: Multibeam echosounder, CTD-Rosette, LADCP, Box Corer, Van Veen Grab, Multicorer and a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). Table 1 sumamrised the number of sampling stations conducted with each gear in each sampling zone. Additionally MB surveys have been conducted during the transits between area

Programa para el fortalecimiento del Sistema de Información Científico-Técnica de la Salud en Cuba: una respuesta a los nuevos escenarios

The background, principles, conditions, foundations and strategical objectives of the Program for strengthening the Scientific and Technical Information System of the National System of Public Health in Cuba, proposed by Infomed and recently passed by the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, are exposed

Las redes de computadoras al servicio de la bibliotecología médica : INFOMED, una experiencia cubana

An overview of ACIMED is presented

Decimoquinto aniversario de Infomed

Editor´s page on the aniversary of Infome