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.

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