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| Building a federation of partners to create a national multimedia digital library |
| Presentation Time: Monday, 4:43 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
| Sharon Dennis, Librarian for Multimedia Development, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT ; Sebastian Uijtdehaage, Ph.D., Co-Director, HEAL Project, School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA ; Chris Candler, M.D., Co-Director, HEAL Project, School of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK ; Sandra McIntyre, Program Manager, HEAL Project, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA ; |
Purpose: Team members from three institutions (University of Utah, University of California–Los Angeles, and University of Oklahoma) collaborated to create a national, multimedia digital library called the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL). HEAL allows faculty to search for and freely download multimedia materials for use in a variety of educational settings. The project team solicited contributions to the collection from a number of institutional and individual partners in order to create a collection with both breadth and depth in a wide variety of health sciences subject areas.
Setting: The three institutions are working with a variety of individual and institutional partners to create a federation of partners at other health sciences institutions and organizations.
Description: The HEAL team created a Web-based national digital library designed to provide health sciences educators with a digital collection of high-quality, freely downloadable multimedia materials (including images, videos, and animations). The digital library was funded as part of the National Science Digital Library initiative of the National Science Foundation. After creating a prototype collection of 3,000 multimedia items, the team solicited contributions from individual and institutional partners. The result was the formation of HEAL's federation, currently consisting of over sixty organizations and individuals. Members of the federation may contribute resources to the database in two ways: (1) by directly uploading materials to the collection or (2) by working with the project team to create a software bridge from the project’s repository to the partner collection. The upload interface is suitable for individuals with a small number of resources to contribute; the software bridges are designed for institutions or organizations with large collections. The software bridges utilize the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting.
Results/Outcome: The HEAL project has received a great deal of interest from national and international partners with access to large collections. The implementation details for creating bridges to each partner collection has varied from partner to partner; details of the working relationships and current status of the partnerships will be presented.
Conclusions/Evaluation: By working with a large number of institutional and individual partners, the HEAL team is creating a national digital library that will allow health sciences educators to repurpose multimedia resources for use in a variety of educational settings. |
Sharon Dennis is librarian for multimedia development at the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah. She has over fifteen years of experience designing and programming computer-based learning programs in the health sciences. She currently directs the library's Knowledge Weavers project, which assists faculty with creating innovative Web-based resources to support health sciences education. She is also co-director of the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) project; HEAL was funded by the National Science Foundation Digital Library Initiative to create a multimedia database for health sciences education. In addition, she teaches a variety of classes related to technology topics.
Sebastian Uijtdehaage is assistant professor of medicine at the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine and assistant director of the Instructional Design and Technology Unit. He specializes in multimedia and database technologies in medical education. He has given numerous presentations and faculty development workshops in the United States, Japan, and Europe on multimedia development and management. He teaches research design and statistics in the Medical Education Fellowship Program at the UCLA School of Medicine. He also is co-director of the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), a National Science Foundation–sponsored national multimedia repository.
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