Newsletter #10
MedBiquitous Consortium
Newsletter #10
13 November 2002
Published by the MedBiquitous Consortium
Contents:
- New
Draft of XML Member Profile Standard
Available
- Managing
and Delivering Online Journals
- Education Update:
SCORM Design Guidelines
- Accessing the
MedBiquitous Repository
1.
New Draft of XML Member Profile Standard
Available
The MedBiquitous Membership
Management Working Group has completed
new Working Drafts of the Member Profile
specification and XML schema. The schema
is a key building block that will be broadly
useful across professional societies and
their business partners. It provides the
underlying technology for a number of enhancements
to business processes that involve sending
member information from one organization
or system to another. The schema allows
organizations to describe physician contact
information, educational background, certification,
training, and society memberships in a
standard way so that this data can be easily
exchanged with business partners, such
as publishers and meeting organizers. If
you are interested in using MedBiquitous
standards to simplify the exchange of member
information, visit the MedBiquitous XML
Repository at http://www.medbiq.org/repository/ and follow the directions in Accessing
the MedBiquitous Repository to
create an account and download the schema
and specification document.
2.
Managing and Delivering Online Journals
MedBiquitous is convening
the Journal Management Working Group to
develop XML technologies to facilitate
the management and online delivery of scientific
journals for professional medical societies.
As with other working groups, this group
will begin with a barn raising, a one-day
meeting in which Consortium members gather
to construct technology that will benefit
the community as a whole. The Meeting will
be hosted by Sun Microsystems in their
Menlo Park, California offices and will
take place on December 3, 2002. Attendance
is open to members only. If you are interested
in participating in the meeting or in joining
the Journal Management Working Group, contact
info@medbiq.org. For more information about
joining MedBiquitous, see our website at http://www.medbiq.org/.
3.
Education Update: SCORM Design Guidelines
The MedBiquitous Education
Working Group is developing design guidelines
for creating reusable modules of medical
education. The guidelines will help MedBiquitous
members to implement the Advanced Distributed
Learning Initiative's SCORM standards in
a consistent manner, making it possible
to find relevant educational resources
and reuse them within or across organizations.
The design guidelines will address best
practices for content development, instructional
design and integrity of content objects,
sequencing of content objects, and metadata
implementation. If you are a member of
the MedBiquitous Consortium and you would
like to provide input on the design guidelines,
contact info@medbiq.org regarding participation in the Education
Working Group.
4.
Accessing the MedBiquitous Repository
To access MedBiquitous
standards through the MedBiquitous Repository,
visit http://www.medbiq.org/repository/.
The XML Canon Portal Login page will display.
To create an account, click the Create
new account link below the login box. Complete
the form and click Submit. XML Canon will
display your XML Canon home page. Point
your mouse to the Browse button at the
top of the page and click Categories. XML
Canon displays a list of XML asset categories
on the left side of the page. To access
the Member Profile standards, click the
+ next to the member folder. Select member.xsd
or Member Profile Specifications. XML Canon
displays the file details in the right
side of the screen. To download the schema
or specification, click the Save as button
at the bottom of the page and save the
file to your computer.
Contact info@medbiq.org for help in accessing the MedBiquitous
Repository.
