Cataloguing and Exchanging Digital Multimedia.

Sebastian Uijtdehaage, Sharon Dennis, Chris Candler

UCLA School of Medicine, Knowledge Weavers, and University of Oklahoma

Abstract:

Faculty members who teach in the medical curriculum rely increasingly on digital media, such as digital images, video, and 3-D models. Building a collection of digital multimedia, however, is not a straightforward process. First, finding or creating high-quality images can be a time-consuming task. And secondly, organizing and keeping track of one’s digital teaching materials requires specialized software.

This demonstration will show a beta-version of an online multimedia database designed to help faculty with cataloguing images, sounds and video. This web-based database technology provides a number of advantages:

• Faculty can add, edit or delete digital materials online through a web browser. No database or programming expertise is needed.
• Faculty can easily search and find their digital assets.
• The digital assets can be seemingly integrated in online teaching.
• Catalogued images, video and sounds can be published on the Internet “on-the-fly”, without tedious HTML coding.
• This online database facilitates the exchange of digital multimedia within and among universities.

The database structure was developed in collaboration with a large number of medical colleges across the United States and Knowledge Weavers, a national resource for medical multimedia at the University of Utah. A consensus on database fields was achieved. This could greatly facilitate

the exchange of teaching assets among organizations.

Benefit in Attending Session:

Slice of Life participants can "test drive" the online multimedia database. Advantages of online multimedia database technology will be clarified.

PRIMARY AUTHOR'S INFORMATION

Sebastian Uijtdehaage

60-051 CHS

Los Angeles,

CA 90095

Telephone Number: 310-794-9009

Fax Number: 310-267-0320

E-mail Address: bas@ucla.edu

Web Site: http://www.medsch.ucla.edu/idtu