Do Healthcare Metadata Models Designed for Web Publishing Meet the Accreditation Standards? A Case Study in the Healthcare and Medical Education
This article reports comparison results from studying the alignment of selected metadata models, used to manage E‑Learning Materials (ELM) in the medicine and healthcare education, against the accreditation standards of the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME). Th...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Electronic journal of e-Learning 2020-08, Vol.18 (4), p.357 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This article reports comparison results from studying the
alignment of selected metadata models, used to manage E‑Learning
Materials (ELM) in the medicine and healthcare education, against
the accreditation standards of the European Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME). The study aims to (1)
illustrate the variety of application profiles developed as metadata
models in that field, (2) identify the alignment of the metadata
models with the criteria set by the EACCME. This study com¬pared
several application profiles, developed based on established
metadata standards, using an evaluation matrix created using the
accreditation criteria set by the EACCME. Further technical criteria
were added to compare between the metadata models and their
alignment with the new techniques used for publishing data online.
Such techniques aid in the searchabililty and discovery of online
content via the internet. Therefore, the use of XML and RDF
technologies combined with the use of ontologies and controlled
vocabulary was emphasized in the implementation of many metadata
models. One limitation faced during conducting this research was the
poor documentation of the methodology for designing the metadata
models. Despite this, it is apparent that the EACCME criteria can
work as best practices guidelines for describing the content of
digital libraries with medical and healthcare content in order to be
accredited later on. The study showed that the medicine and
healthcare educational content requires specialized metadata models
that consider having specific properties such as clinical history
and expiry time of its material shown in some of the application
profiles. Further research should be conducted to evaluate the
completeness and conformity of applying the application profiles in
digital libraries and online repositories to the standards’
guidelines. |
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ISSN: | 1479-4403 1479-4403 |
DOI: | 10.34190/EJEL.20.18.4.008 |