The design and implementation of an infrastructure for multimedia digital libraries

We develop an infrastructure for managing, indexing and serving multimedia content in digital libraries. This infrastructure follows the model of the Web, and thereby is distributed in nature. We discuss the design of the Librarian, the component that manages meta data about the content. The management of meta data has been separated from the media servers that manage the content itself. Also, the extraction of the meta data is largely independent of the Librarian. We introduce our extensible data model and the daemon paradigm that are the core pieces of this architecture. We evaluate our initial implementation using a relational database. We conclude with a discussion of the lessons we learned in building this system, and proposals for improving the flexibility, reliability, and performance of the syste

The Role of Academic Debt and Benefits to the Profession on the Interest of Professional Post-Baccalaureate Athletic Training Students’ in a Doctor of Athletic Training Degree

Context: The requirement of completing a post-baccalaureate degree for entry into clinical practice will necessitate advanced degree seekers to consider their academic debt (AD) and benefits to the profession. We examined interest in a Doctor of Athletic Training (DAT) degree, concerns regarding AD, and perceptions of benefits to the profession of currently enrolled post-baccalaureate athletic training students. Methods: 15 of 51 programs that met the inclusion criteria comprising 287 students (91 Males, 193 females) in this cross sectional study. Participants completed a 6 theme survey. Questions were asked in select one, open-ended, and 4-point Likert scale formats. The main outcome measures for this part of the survey were interest in a DAT, amount of AD, and perceptions of the impact of a DAT on benefits to the profession. Statistics were calculated using IBM SPSS (Version 24; Armonk, NY). Descriptive statistics were used to calculate percentages and frequencies. Mann-Whitney U tests were used to assess group differences in interest in pursuing the degree (P\u3c0.05). Results: 170 participants were minimally interested in pursuing a DAT, while 115 were moderately or extremely interested. 125 participants reported debt accrual of post-baccalaureate programming to range between $40,000 and$80,000, with 63 students accruing over $80,000. AD did not differ between groups for pursuing aDAT (P=.906). Participants agreed that aDATwould increase salary (n=202), lead to job candidacy (n=226) or diverse setting employment (n=212), increase in professional recognition (n=240), increasing awareness, (n=228) increase respect (n=229) and collaboration (n=221) amongst and with healthcare providers and within the public (n=210). Conclusions: Accumulation of AD does not affect interest in pursuing a DAT within post-baccalaureate students. They think that the DAT will be linked to increases in salary and recognition. Future research should examine perceptions of DAT completers and employment, debt accumulation, and debt to earnings ratio.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/health_sciences/1016/thumbnail.jp