New Technology in the Human Services

Spackman A, Glastonbury B Gilbert D (1996) The Language of the Personal Social Services New Technology in the Human Services Vol:9(3) pp. 23-27


Abstract The development of electronic facilities for recording and sharing information has brought to the forefront the issue of the language used in information systems and communications. So far in the UK this matter has been tackled much more extensively in health than the personal social services, but interest and activity in the latter are growing. This paper is discussion of a scoping project to examine the interest in and potential for adding a more substantial range of social terms to the Read Thesaurus. The thesaurus is already used extensively by health and allied professions in the UK and already contains some social terms.

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