Doc'UMVF: two search tools to provide quality-controlled teaching resources in French to students and teachers.

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Authors: Cuggia M, Darmoni SJ, Garcelon N, Soualmia L, Bourde A
The UMVF project is a federation of medical teaching resources covering 32 medical schools in France. Today, the indexing of these resources is carried out manually by the CISMeF team at the University Hospital of Rouen. This indexing is based on MeSH thesaurus. We use a subset of SCORM metadata standard. This choice was defined in collaboration with the French Medical Virtual University consortium (French acronym: UMVF). Currently, with the UMVF searching tool (called Doc’UMVF), medical students can reach more than 3300 resources useful in their curriculum. Doc’UMVF is developed in close collaboration between the medical informatics laboratories of Rennes and Rouen. In this paper we present two complementary searching too….