iSeek - What Michigan Medicine resources are searched? 


Question

What Michigan Medicine resources are searched? What is indexed by iSeek? What is included in search results?

Answer

iseek resource list

Resources indexed by iSeek

Academic Applications can provide further details provided by the vendor on resources listed.

    • Dropbox (see exclude list below to see what files/folder names are not included in search results)
      • Curricular files only
        • UMMS Scientific Trunk Curricular Resources
          • All subfolders
        • UMMS Clinical Trunk Curricular Resources
          • Archive Folder
            • Clinical Trunk Student Resources 2018-2019
              • All subfolders 
            • Clinical Trunk Student Resources 2019-2020
              • All subfolders 
          • Clinical Trunk Student Resources 2020-2021
            • All subfolders 
          • Clinical Trunk Student Resources 2021-2022
            • All subfolders 
        • UMMS Branches Curricular Resources
          • UMMS Branches Curricular Resources 2018-2020, 2019-2021, 2020-2022, 2021-23
            • Only folders/files under Doctoring subfolder
    • Canvas sites/files
      • Scientific Trunk, Clinical Trunk, and some Branches sites. Typically any course with the academic year included will be indexed. 
    • Mediasite
    • Anatomy Site
    • Histology Site
    • Mivideo/Kaltura  (planned Spring 2022) 

Dropbox Exclude List

The following terms are ignored when they are found in folder names when data is being read from Dropbox into the Canvas crawl. Currently an exception is being made for the folder named "Archive (review, question, answer, other)" as it contains all of the course data for the Clinical Trunk before 2020. 
  • _NIX
  • DNI*
  • do not index
  • question
  • Answer
  • Quiz
  • test
  • tests
  • Assessment
  • Review
  • Faculty
  • exam
  • exams
  • M4
  • UMMS Branches

The following terms are being ignored in the file names from dropbox, and are ignored when reading data into the Canvas crawl.

  • _NIX
  • DNI*
  • do not index
  • question
  • Answer
  • Quiz
  • test
  • tests
  • Assessment
  • Review
  • exam
  • exams
  • faculty

 

Finally, for folders in UMMS Branches Curricular Resouurces, we only read in data from files that contain one of the following terms in the file name or path.

  • Doctoring Resources GY
  • Doctoring Resource GY
The following terms are the Allowed List of Canvas course names. Any course not matching one of these is ignored. This occurs when reading from Canvas, before any processing occurs. These must be a complete match. For instance, a course named "Doctoring" would not be a match. 

  • 2017-18
  • 2018-19
  • 2019-20
  • 2020-21
  • 2021-22
  • M-Home Learning Community
  • Medical Ethics
  • Nutrition in Medicine
  • Opioid Best Practices
  • Patient-Based Scientific Inquiry
  • Empowering Educators
  • Doctoring GY 2019
  • Doctoring GY 2020
  • Survey Course in Population Health
  • Patients and Populations Branch
  • Science and Practice of Medicine – Branches GY 2019
  • Pediatric Injury Prevention
  • M4 Emergency Medicine Procedures
  • M3/M4 Radiology Elective

In addition to that whitelist, there is also an exclusion list that will further restrict which courses we read in. Any course that matches the exclusion list will be ignored, even if it matches an Allowed List term.

  • sandbox
  • test
  • demo
  • mockup
  • backup
  • development
  • medicine in
  • comet
  • branch faculty development
  • faculty
  • CCA*
  • Branch Science
  • Clinical Trunk Doctoring
  • Scientific Trunk Doctoring
  • Surgery and Applied Science
  • Fellow Forum
  • M4
  • Clinical Reasoning
  • Residency - Applicants
  • PM&R Elective
  • Advanced Medical Therapeutics