Patent ID: 6405226
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: G06F,G09B,Y10S

Abstract:
A multimedia computer system for storing and accessing information about a digital portfolio of projects, comprising:a memory for storing one or more digital portfolios generated by one or more authors, each digital portfolio having one or more projects, each project having one or more project elements, wherein a project element is selected from the group consisting of textual, graphical, audio, and another digitally storable multimedia format; a graphical user interface on a computer display for displaying in a first window a digital portfolio project and in a second window a tag list of tags with a predetermined set of tags from which an evaluator can choose; and a tagging process that tags one or more project elements with a tag to produce tagged project elements, each of the tagged project elements being associated with the respective tag, one or more of the tags being selected by the evaluator from the tag list with a predetermined set of tags, the tags being stored separately from the original tagged project elements to maintain integrity of the original project elements, and tagged project elements being stored in said memory as a database of annotated author documents, wherein the database is relational.