title: The Stanford MediaServer Project: strategies for building a flexible digital media platform to support biomedical education and research.
abstract: Medical media collections are growing at a pace that exceeds the value they currently provide as research and educational resources. To address this issue, the Stanford MediaServer was designed to promote innovative multimedia-based application development. The nucleus of the MediaServer platform is a digital media database strategically designed to meet the information needs of many biomedical disciplines. Key features include an intuitive web-based interface for collaboratively populating the media database, flexible creation of media collections for diverse and specialized purposes, and the ability to construct a variety of end-user applications from the same database to support biomedical education and research.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies(SUMMIT), Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Jeremy C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Durack
authors.forename: Chih-Chien
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chao
authors.forename: Derek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stevenson
authors.forename: Katherine P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Andriole
authors.forename: Parvati
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dev
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D001319:Authorship; D035843:Biomedical Research; D002140:California; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D019212:Multimedia; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled