Inter-neuro: from chaos to neuroinformatics knowledge base

Almost unlimited possibilities of sharing neuroinformatics resources, opened by the Internet, create an almost unlimited number of issues. Growing amount of available data, combined with the lack of reliable and large enough metainformation resources, limits the proliferation and reliability of this media. In this paper we propose a solution, which may help in an efficient sharing of neuroinformatics resources, by means of a network of vortals dedicated to particular and well defined topics. These vortals are responsible for collection of high quality resources in their particular fields. They are interconnected in a way transparent to the user, using a low level interface for interchanging queries. For a user this means that a query entered in one of the vortals will return relevant results found also in the other vortals of the Network. We also describe technical details and pilot implementation; metainformation is based upon Open Archives/ Dublin Core standards, and interchange of queries on XML/SOAP.