Trip Database Blog

Now that we’ve got Connected Articles and Advanced search out and live we are working on two main areas of work:

Migrating to the cloud

Currently Trip sits on a server somewhere in the UK. However, this has some drawbacks and so we’re going to move our presence to the cloud. Given the complexity of Trip this is not easy but we can build it separately from the current Trip and then switchover when we’re happy it’s stable.

As part of this process we will be upgrading the underlying search system and rolling out ‘fixes’ to issues such as relevancy.

Artificial Intelligence

This is going to be interesting and there are two main avenues here:

• AI Innovation Circle: Even though we’ve hardly advertised this we’ve already had a great selection of volunteers. This group will help guide Trip in harnessing some of the amazing power that is now readily available.
• Automated reviews. Trip has a reasonably long tradition of exploring automated evidence reviews (e.g. Developing a fully automated evidence synthesis tool for identifying, assessing and collating the evidence) and more recently we’ve been experimenting with ChatGPT/LLMs (see More experiments with LLMs/ChatGPT). We’re about to take the experimentation into a proper working system. We’ll initially concentrate on a single condition and use that to learn before, hopefully, rolling out a something altogether more ambitious.

Happy Days 🙂