Enhancing streaming video resources for the practitioner: metadata
Abstract
Purpose
Proposes to investigate the benefits of Lifesign “networked moving images for the Life Sciences”, which was created with the aim of developing, cataloguing and evaluating the use of streaming media in learning and teaching in the broad life sciences.
Design/methodology/approach
Introduces and describes Lifesign, examining its advantages and disadvantages.
Findings
Lifesign has developed, catalogued and evaluated the use of streaming media in learning and teaching in the broad life sciences. While resources of this kind have been deemed “interoperable”, it has proven difficult to support these effectively for remote practitioners through effective transfer of secondary resources. While a basic delivery profile meets specific needs of certain practitioners, it is limited in its ability to deliver and provide information on secondary material. Pragmatic use of metadata, combined with adoption of metadata with Reusable Learning Objects, can offer solutions that go some way to providing more extensible support to tutors creating streaming scenarios for their students.
Originality/value
Provides useful information for those wishing to use Lifesign.
Keywords
Citation
Calverley, G. (2005), "Enhancing streaming video resources for the practitioner: metadata", VINE, Vol. 35 No. 1/2, pp. 78-84. https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720510588524
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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