Title
An Internet supported workflow for the publication process in UMVF (French Virtual Medical University).
Abstract
The “ Université Médicale Virtuelle Francophone” (UMVF) is a federation of French medical schools. Its main goal is to share the production and use of pedagogic medical resources generated by academic medical teachers. We developed an Open-Source application based upon a workflow system, which provides an improved publication process for the UMVF. For teachers, the tool permits easy and efficient upload of new educational resources. For web masters it provides a mechanism to easily locate and validate the resources. For librarian it provide a way to improve the efficiency of indexation. For all, the utility provides a workflow system to control the publication process. On the students side, the application improves the value of the UMVF repository by facilitating the publication of new resources and by providing an easy way to find a detailed description of a resource and to check any resource from the UMVF to ascertain its quality and integrity, even if the resource is an old deprecated version. The server tier of the application is used to implement the main workflow functionalities and is deployed on certified UMVF servers using the PHP language, an LDAP directory and an SQL database. The client tier of the application provides both the workflow and the search and check functionalities. A unique signature for each resource, was needed to provide security functionality and is implemented using a Digest algorithm. The testing performed by Rennes and Lille verified the functionality and conformity with our specifications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.01.010
International Journal of Medical Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web publishing,Indexation,UMVF,Workflow management,Medical pedagogy,Resource searching,Cryptographic digest
Workflow technology,World Wide Web,Computer science,Upload,Server,Knowledge management,Windows Workflow Foundation,Lightweight Directory Access Protocol,Workflow engine,Workflow management system,Workflow
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
76
5
1386-5056
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean-Marie Renard1225.00
Annabel Bourde2183.07
Marc Cuggia310120.05
N Garcelon4406.01
Nathalie Souf501.01
Stephan Darmoni600.34
Régis Beuscart75417.72
Jean-Marc Brunetaud800.34