The CardioOP-Data Clas (CDC)

R. Friedl; W. Klas; U. Westermann; T. Rose; J. Tremper; S. Stracke; O. Gödje; A. Hannekum; M. B. Preisack

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634211

Methods of Information in Medicine, Table of Contents

Methods Inf Med 2003; 42(01): 68-78
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634211

Original article

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The CardioOP-Data Clas (CDC)

Development and Application of a Thesaurus for Content Management and Multi-User Teleteaching in Cardiac Surgery

R. Friedl

¹Dept. of Heart Surgery, University of Ulm, Germany

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W. Klas

²Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Vienna, Austria

,

U. Westermann

²Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Vienna, Austria

,

T. Rose

³Institute of Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW), Ulm

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J. Tremper

⁴Dept. of Heart Surgery, University of Heidelberg

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S. Stracke

⁵Dept. of Medicine, University of Ulm, Germany

,

O. Gödje

¹Dept. of Heart Surgery, University of Ulm, Germany

,

A. Hannekum

¹Dept. of Heart Surgery, University of Ulm, Germany

,

M. B. Preisack

¹Dept. of Heart Surgery, University of Ulm, Germany

› Author Affiliations

Abstract

Summary

Objectives: Self-directed and customized medical education programs are gaining importance in health care instruction. We prototypically implemented a repository-driven online computer system (CardioOP) for teleteaching in Heart Surgery. It supports authoring and multiple re-use of multimedia data for different user groups in different instructional applications and therefore requires a process of content management.

Methods: We defined objectives for a terminological system to support semantic, cross-media type annotation and retrieval of learning objects: domain completeness, German (natural) language processing, multi-user concepts, extensibility and maintenance, content based annotation and technical implementation. Existing terminologies (ICD10, READ V3, Snomed III, UMLS 1997, MESH) have been analysed according to these objectives.

Results: We found that the analysed terminologies did not meet our criteria sufficiently. Therefore, we developed a domain-specific thesaurus, the CardioOPDataClas (CDC). The application of the CDC within a database-driven authoring process using specifically developed tools is reported.

Conclusions: Metadata play an important role in the effective discovery and search, access, integration and management of educational multimedia data in medicine but so far, there is no terminology to support content management for instructional multimedia. We prototypically designed and applied a thesaurus for the CardioOP educational system. Additional work is needed to evaluate the system in terms of user-friendliness, concept coverage and information retrieval performance.

Keywords

Computer assisted instruction - multimedia - terminology - information management

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