Abstract

In the cyberspace, the health webmaster could be assimilated to an editor in chief of a journal. He/she must follow quality criteria to build any resource: at Rouen University Hospital, we have chosen the Net Scoring as the tool to design a Web site of quality. The Net Scoring contains a list of 49 criteria which fall into eight categories: credibility, content, links, design, interactivity, quantitative aspects, ethics, and accessibility. The webmaster is the key element of the editorial board process. He/she must regularly monitor his/her Web site to get information whether the site is used and by whom: the method most commonly used is the log analysis. At RUH, an average of 3,500 machines is visiting our Web site each working day. Conclusion: webmaster is a new job opportunity for medical informaticians and medical librarians who are both information science professionals.