Presentations
Digital
Sound - Keynote Speech
Paul Bamberg
Dragon Systems
HealthAware:
An Integrated Health and Health Care Information Network
Sandra
Kogan, Robert A. Greenes
Decsion
Systems Group Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
HealthAware(TM)
is an online, integrated resource for consumers which provides up-to-date
information about health, wellness, and health care with linkage
to a health care delivery network for problems that require further
attention. Unlike other consumer health sites, this is a proactive
resource for consumers linking together an interactive risk assessment
tool, recommendations and referral. To implement these features,
a component-based strategy was used in which a core set of tools
has been implemented, and which provides flexibility and expandability,
in terms of ease of adding future features. Editing tools are used
to author and update content in module-specific database files.
A distributed authoring/editing approach is used that facilitates
editorial review and approval analogous to traditional publishing;
upon editor approval, content is published in Web-accessible format.
Dynamic page generation from the databases enables content to be
managed without the need for a Webmaster, and ensures a consistent
look and feel for presented pages. An evaluation project is underway
using the Boston College campus as a testbed community, and linkage
to Partners HealthCare System as the health care delivery network.
Initial focus areas for the test bed include 55 topics in the following
areas: breast disease, cardiovascular disease, sports injuries,
substance abuse, pregnancy and prenatal care.
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Advanced
Multimedia Student Projects in CSCIE17
The
Life of Miles Davis
Jeff
Calder
An interactive
look at the life of Miles Davis from the early years of childhood
to the Birth of the Cool to his endeavor into painting.
Straight
No Chaser - An Introduction to Acid Jazz
Dan
Caporale
Jazz and electronica,
and everything inbetween.
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Extension
School Digital
Libraries & The Internet CSCIE23
Olivier
Carnohan
Interactions
on Culture and Society in Modern France - A Digital Libray project
through
CSCIE23
The library
gathers 200 documents about the interactions on Culture and Society
in Modern France. I tried to demonstrate the value added by a careful
indexing and database design. The study of a dynamic topic (Interactions
of Culture and Society) demonstrates the advantages of using a relational
database environment. The library was built according to concepts
drawn from results in cognitive psychology, neuro-science, ergonomics
and information science. Semantics and cognitive methods were used
to build intuitive search functions, queries and menus. The importance
of a thoughtful indexing process was demonstrated, through Keywords
creation and Indexing revolving around six topics: what, where,
when, how, who, why.
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Digital
Audio's Multiple Personalities
David Ackerman, Sarah Adams
Loeb Music Library
This presentation
offers a look at the role of digital technology in use at the Loeb
Music Library for audio preservation and access to rare and fragile
collections. Audio preservation issues that will be touched on include
reformatting and restoration, sample rates and bit depth, and data
storage. Plans for access to collections will look at the content
design goals for research intensive digital resources that integrate
audio recordings with their accompanying documentation (e.g. field
notes) through a digital finding aid.
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Multimedia
in FAS Instruction
Robert
Doyle
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Divisions of Instructional Media Services(IMS) in FAS are providing
multimedia support for instruction. Media & Technological Services
(MTS) is involved with the Instructional Computing Group (ICG) in
producing recordings for web-based instruction, the Language Resource
Center provides digitized film, video, and audio class materials
for foreign language courses, the Adaptive Technology Laboratory
offers voice recognition programs, and Media Production Center(MPC)
offers DAT and CD productions. IMS is actively using machinery provided
through the Intel grant to meet the technology needs of our faculty.
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Using
Internet for Legal Studies
Jonathan
Zittrain
Harvard
Law School
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