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| Building an international multimedia digital library |
| Sharon E. 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 ; |
| Presentation Number: 109 |
Purpose: Health sciences educators have the need but neither the time nor the resources to create and index digital multimedia materials suitable for use in educational settings. The primary mission of this project is to address this need by providing health sciences educators with high-quality, freely downloadable multimedia materials (including images, videos, and animations).
Setting: The HEAL application is available on the Web for use by health sciences faculty, students, and staff, as well as patients and their families. Health sciences faculty may contribute multimedia materials to the database through the Web-based contributor interface.
Description: Through the use of state-of-the-art Internet technologies, educators are able to efficiently locate and retrieve multimedia materials from a variety of sources. The HEAL project is a collaborative effort between three institutions (University of Utah, University of Oklahoma, and University of California–Los Angeles); in addition, the project team is working with other organizations to establish an international network of distributed databases containing high-quality teaching resources in a variety of health sciences–related subject areas. The digital library was funded as part of the National Science Digital Library initiative of the National Science Foundation. Partner collections will be added to the database using the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting. The project application includes interfaces for searching, downloading, uploading, and browsing through materials. The browse interface is based on the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) tree. An interactive MeSH browser, written as a Java applet, is also available for users to locate MeSH keywords for retrieval and indexing. Records are cataloged using MeSH or other controlled vocabularies in cases where MeSH is not adequate.
Results: The HEAL project has attracted the interest of over sixty organizations and individuals. The HEAL Web application has over 1,300 registered users. The prototype collection consists of 3,000 images, videos, and animations related to neuroanatomy, dermatology, cardiology, pathology, histology, and neurology; the collection is growing as new partner collections are being added.
Conclusions/Evaluation: By the end of the funding period in later 2004, the national multimedia repository created by the HEAL team will offer health sciences educators access to a large, diverse collection of health science materials appropriate for use in educational settings. |
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