Abstract:
An Internet-based personalized, online, scientific interface is described, operating from at least a proprietary web server connected to the Internet for sending display images produced at the web server from any software application to a client web browser. The interface is personalized and includes, in addition to providing a gateway to different information databases, a search function, an archiving function, a specific bookmark function, an access to uploaded abstracts, and a personalized area. The interface includes a tool for upload, creation, venue presentation, and highly interactive web delivery presentation of a scientific paper or a poster by an author, linked with an internal tool for reviewing, accepting, and grading submitted abstracts for review. Within the personalized page, the interface includes a management tool for all abstracts uploaded to the interface, a follow-up tool and a system for managing the academic currency associated with the uploaded presentations including the capacity to produce feedback report associated with comments and viewing statistics. A digital presentation system allows attendees to comment on specific slides of presentations, have live or deferred communications with the presenter, rate the presentation, and even archive part or all of the presentation in the interface for later retrieval.

Description:
FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE 
       [0001]    This disclosure relates to a personalized, online, scientific interface, an associated digital presentation system, and a method of management of the online scientific interface at a scientific venue, and more specifically, to an Internet-based interface for uploading scientific abstracts, creating and uploading an associated article or presentation, the management of this information within a personalized interface and at a scientific venue, and producing an associated feedback report, an academic currency report, or allowing a presenter a greater interface with users of the interface. 
       BACKGROUND 
       [0002]    It has now been the long-standing practice of the scientific community to promote science by giving researchers access to open forums. Doctoral candidates, professors, and practitioners in any scientific and even nonscientific fields are encouraged to read monthly publications of peer articles, attend conferences, and be familiar with regularly published books in their field. The Internet, a worldwide network of communication, is well adapted to facilitate the communication and exchange of information of these researchers, students, professors, and practitioners. 
         [0003]    But with the new era of global communication, access to peers is better facilitated and the rate of transfer of information has increased to the point where useful and needed data is often accompanied by a sea of competing and potentially less useful information. The number of paper- and Internet-based publications has increased, the number of specialized websites and blogs offering information is increasing, and as a result, scientists often are unable to reach, archive, or retrieve the needed information again once it has been initially read. For example, radiologists, once presented with a handful of the most interesting cases in journals where each case was presented using a handful of small images on a static media such as paper, can now be given access to full scans comprising multiple images taken of the same patient at different angles, different locations, and different resolutions. When presented on a screen, digital images can be moved, focused, or presented at a greater resolution allowing for a better transfer of information. Where one radiologist may find one slide useful, a second radiologist may find another slide of greater interest to his or her practice. What is useful is an interface or a method of use thereof to improve the capacity to focus, access, and archive useful information from any location on the web while at the same time managing this information in a time- and cost-efficient manner. 
         [0004]    Conferences are also organized at regular intervals, some on a yearly basis, such as, for example, the annual conference of the Radiological Society of North America. This conference promotes communication between the scientists in the field of radiology. Practitioners, researchers, doctors, and students are invited to travel to a chosen destination where a handful of the most relevant presentations and posters are presented in an open forum to promote discussion and dissemination of information. Currently, only a fraction of potential attendees are able to afford attending the conference in person, or attendees having interest in only a single presentation and do not think the benefits of partial attendance outweigh the time and financial burdens associated with attending the conference. 
         [0005]    Also, only a handful of the abstracts submitted for presentation are ultimately chosen. Scientists of subspecialties, for example, may be forced to attend a three-day conference and are only given access to a handful of presentations in their subspecialties. What is needed is an interface or method that provides remote access to a greater number of presentations, namely, a system to manage, select, and promote the creation and uploading of abstracts from the scientific community. What is also needed is an interface or a method of granting greater access to the presentations to both attendees and remote-access viewers. For example, presenters also greatly benefit from interaction with attendees as they are able to monitor interest in their work. 
         [0006]    Finally, most researchers shy away from using a single, personalized or proprietary interface for finding, accessing, and storing their know-how. Interfaces are often incomplete and offer little or no capacity to retrieve and store external sources of information. These interfaces are also very limited in their capacity to serve as a central site that is not dependant on the user for regular software updates. For example, radiologists desiring to view high-resolution images from a remote station must load a local software layer, configure their platform, and are often unable to store in a single database the result of external data collection. What is needed is an improved online interface capable of offering scientists a centralized service compatible with the above described needs. 
       SUMMARY 
       [0007]    This disclosure relates to an Internet-based, personalized, online, scientific interface operating from at least a proprietary web server connected to the Internet for sending display images produced at the web server from any software application to a client web browser. The transfer may be done using the HTTP protocol to transfer images as part of HTML code. The interface may be personalized to provide a gateway to different information databases, a search function, an archive function, a bookmark function, access to uploaded abstracts, or an area where data assembled and displayed based on personalized selection. The interface further includes a tool for upload, creation, presentation, and highly interactive web delivery presentation of a scientific paper or a poster by an author, which are linked with an internal tool for reviewing, accepting, and grading submitted abstracts for review. The interface also includes within the personalized page a management tool for all abstracts uploaded to the interface, a follow-up tool, and a system for managing the academic currency associated with the uploaded presentations, including the capacity to produce a feedback report associated with comments and viewing statistics. 
         [0008]    Further, the interface includes an associated digital presentation system to allow attendees to comment on specific slides of presentations, have live or deferred communications with the presenter, and/or viewers of the presentation, rate the presentation, and even archive part or all of the presentation for later retrieval. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0009]    Certain preferred embodiments are shown in the drawings. However, it is understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the arrangements and instrumentality shown in the attached drawings. 
           [0010]      FIG. 1  is a webpage illustrating a home page of an Internet-based website with access to a personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0011]      FIG. 2  is a webpage illustrating the MyLogo tab of a personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0012]      FIG. 3  is a webpage illustrating the MySearch tab of a personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0013]      FIG. 4  is a webpage illustrating the MyBookmarks tab of a personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0014]      FIG. 5  is a webpage illustrating the MyFiles tab of a personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0015]      FIG. 6  is a diagram representation of the interrelations between the different elements connected to the Internet of the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0016]      FIG. 7A  is an illustration of the pop-up window opened as a results of selecting an “add to my bookmarks” button on the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0017]      FIG. 7B  is a diagrammatic representation of the scroll down menu for selection and storage of the bookmarked item according to the step shown in  FIG. 7A . 
           [0018]      FIG. 8  is a webpage illustration of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting the MySearch tab shown in  FIG. 3  and further selecting the video tab on the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0019]      FIG. 9  is a webpage illustration of the digital presentation system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0020]      FIG. 10  is an illustration of the Communities webpage displayed once the Communities tab is pressed on the webpage shown in  FIG. 9  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0021]      FIG. 11  is an illustration of the Scientific Sessions webpage displayed once the Scientific Session tab is pressed on the webpage shown in  FIG. 9  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0022]      FIG. 12  is an illustration of the Presentation webpage displayed once the Presentation tab is pressed on the webpage shown in  FIG. 9  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0023]      FIG. 13A  is an illustration of the MySearch webpage displayed as a result of selecting the MySearch tab shown in  FIG. 3  and further selecting the Image tab on the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0024]      FIG. 13B  is an illustration of the pop-up window displayed as a result of a selection of the image to be displayed as shown in  FIG. 13A  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0025]      FIG. 14  is an illustration of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting the MySearch tab shown in  FIG. 3  and further selecting the Electronic Exhibit tab on the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0026]      FIG. 15  is a representation of the legends associated with the display of an image and a video as shown in  FIGS. 8 and 13A  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0027]      FIG. 16  is a representation of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting the MySearch tab shown in  FIG. 3  and further selecting the Bookmark Results tab on the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0028]      FIG. 17  is a representation of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting MyBookmarks on the personalized, online, scientific interface of  FIG. 3  and selecting a bookmarked webpage according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0029]      FIG. 18  is a representation of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting MyBookmarks on the personalized, online, scientific interface of  FIG. 3  and selecting a bookmarked image according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0030]      FIG. 19  is a representation of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting MyBookmarks on the personalized, online, scientific interface of  FIG. 3  and selecting a text file according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0031]      FIG. 20  is a representation of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting MyBookmarks on the personalized, online, scientific interface of  FIG. 3  and selecting a subdirectory with video presentations according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0032]      FIG. 21  is a representation of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting MyBookmarks on the personalized, online, scientific interface of  FIG. 3  and selecting a subdirectory with images of screenshots according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0033]      FIG. 22  is a representation of the home webpage of a presentation editor for working on a presentation or uploading an abstract to the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0034]      FIG. 23  is a representation of the webpage displayed from the webpage shown as  FIG. 22  and after selecting one of the listed presentations according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0035]      FIGS. 24 and 25  are webpages displayed to enter the type of presentation to be prepared and assigning a parent category and a subcategory for the presentation according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0036]      FIGS. 26 to 28  are sample pages of the data entry interface to enter information associated with a presentation as shown in  FIG. 22  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0037]      FIG. 29  is a webpage showing for a specific category and subcategory the different abstracts associated with their assigned grades according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0038]      FIG. 30  is a pop-up window from the webpage illustrated as  FIG. 29  showing a breakdown of the grades given by the different graders of an abstract as shown in  FIG. 22  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0039]      FIG. 31  is a pop-up window with the abstract disclosure associated with a presentation shown in  FIG. 22  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0040]      FIG. 32  is a summary window of the grading completion of the different abstracts submitted through the online scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0041]      FIG. 33  is a quick-grade window for a grader assigned a plurality of abstracts submitted through the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0042]      FIG. 34  is a summary table of the grading for different presentations submitted through the personalized, online, scientific interface according to another embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0043]      FIG. 35  is a webpage presentation of the online editor for presentations submitted through the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0044]      FIG. 36  is a schematic representation of the Internet representation of the different elements of a system with the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
           [0045]      FIG. 37  is a schematic representation of the method for managing a venue using a personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
       
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
       [0046]    For the purposes of promoting and understanding the invention and principles disclosed herein, reference is now made to the preferred embodiments illustrated in the drawings, and specific language is used to describe the same. It is nevertheless understood that no limitation of the scope of the invention is thereby intended. Such alterations and further modifications in the illustrated devices and such further applications of the principles disclosed as illustrated herein are contemplated as would normally occur to one skilled in the art to which this disclosure relates. 
         [0047]      FIG. 36  shows a web server  450 , such as a proprietary server connected to a database  1401  for storage of information, auxiliary servers such as application-specific web servers  407  such as, for example, a radiology search server like Yottalook.com, and a web server with general search engine  408  such as, for example, google.com. The proprietary server  450  is connected to the Internet  422  and to the different client browsers  421  as shown in  FIG. 6 . These browsers use an HTML reader capable of uploading a response from a request from a web server as is well known in the art. In one embodiment, the browser uploads HTML pages sent via the HTTP protocol. While one technology of browser and one type of associated data communication protocol is shown as the current, most-implemented protocol and browser interface, what is contemplated is any type of browsing technology using any type of communication protocol capable of resulting in the upload of information to the user display from a remote server linked as part of a global or local network of data communication. 
         [0048]      FIG. 36  also shows as  1402  how the home page portal creates data for a general event portal  1005 , a varied data portal  1004 / 1003 / 1002 / 1001 , or a personalized portal  100  shown in FIG.  1 ., and transforms these executables into HTML format using, for example, what is known as Flash technology. Flash technology can manipulate vector and raster graphics and supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video. Files in Flash typically use a .swf file extension, also known as ShockWave Flash, and may be adapted as an object embedded in a webpage or as part of a Flash executable. While one possible technology is shown to process different sources of information at the web server  450  for ultimate transfer in a uniform format to the web browser  421 , other data transfer technologies are also contemplated. 
         [0049]    While database  1401  in shown in  FIG. 36  on the same platform as the web server  450 , database  1401  can be located locally, remotely, or as part of any type of data storage that can be functionally connected with the home web server  450  for running the personalized, online, scientific interface  10 . 
         [0050]    Turning now to  FIG. 1 , the personalized, online, scientific interface  10  as shown includes a user access box  1006  having a username data entry field, a password data entry field, and a save login data entry field along with a button for sending the entered information. In this disclosure, all functions and data entry methods associated with the different interfaces are not described with particularity because they are well known to one of ordinary skill in the art. For example, while a user may use a mouse to click on the Login box, under most operating systems, hitting the Enter key on a keyboard results in the same action. 
         [0051]    The personalized, online, scientific interface  10  also includes a presentation surface such as  12  where a logo can be displayed alongside information. While no external features such as online publicity are shown, the use of these features as part of the interface  10  is contemplated. On the left portion of  FIG. 1 , tabs can be clicked to gain access to a general event portal  1005 , such as the annual RSNA conference at an external venue, a variety of data portals, such as a news button  1004  to access recent news items, a radiology tab  1003  to gain access to a first source of data either as publications, a database, or any other medium, and other tabs, such as educational data  1001  or graphical data  1002 . A personalized, online, scientific interface  100  is accessed by selected a tab as shown in the area where myLOGO is found. 
         [0052]    By selecting the myLOGO area  100 , a webpage illustrating the MyLogo tab of a personalized, online, scientific interface is accessed. In this subsequent webpage, as for every webpage uploaded via a browser through the Internet or any other network connected to a server where the interface is run in memory, a series of tab is shown. A presentation surface  12  may include a series of tabs  110 ,  400 ,  500 , and  600  or other elements for the selection of steps in the interface  111 , such as, for example, an Add Stuff button to add new windows in the personalized tab  110 . While a window with My Abstracts  170  is shown, it may be absent from the personalized tab either because it was never selected by a user or because it was removed from the personalized area in the page. By selecting the Add Stuff button, a pop-up box appears and the user is invited to scroll down and select any new window to add to the personalized tab  110 . Another button on the interface  111  is the Add Tab button that allows for additional tabs to be included alongside the tabs shown  110 ,  400 ,  500 , and  600 . Several tabs are shown on the personalized tab  110 , namely, the Search tab  400 , the Bookmark tab  500 , and the My Files tab  600 .  FIG. 4  shows an example where a NEWS tab  1007  has been added. 
         [0053]    Returning to  FIG. 2 , in the personalized area of the personalized tab  110 , several possible windows are shown, such as a user profile box  120 , a first window to a reference database  130 , a second window to another reference database  140 , a tips window  150 , and a box with updated user information from a database  160 , such as a legal education requirement. In the user profile window  120 , a series of personal information  115  can be entered, such as contact information, user name, passwords, membership information to the interface, or any other type of information that is used in a profile. Each of the windows as shown includes small, functional buttons  112  to add functions and navigate within the associated window, pull-down menus  113 , lists of elements often associated with an HTML link  114 , or text information. While a handful of possible tools for operating within an online environment are displayed, what is contemplated is the use of any type of tool associated with any known or programmable feature or interface. 
         [0054]      FIG. 3  is a webpage illustrating the MySearch tab  400  of a personalized, online, scientific interface  100  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The MySearch tab  400  is a personalized search tab where, through a series of tools such as drop bars, icons, and tabs, different types of searches can be accessed and run. For example, a search term can be entered in a bar  401 , and icons  1008  next to the bar can stored the recent searches, favorite searches, or launch the search query. Another bar  402  allows for a search of recent searches. For example, the interface can be programmed to store or recall the last searches for subsequent searches using the same terms. The use of History buttons as used in web browsers is also contemplated along with any type of stored histogram. 
         [0055]    As shown in  FIG. 3 , a series of horizontal tabs are associated with different families of searches, the first  450  is associated with searches at the proprietary server or at the server of a certain service provider, and the second tab  407  is directed to a specific web server, such as, for example, the website Yottalook Web, a search engine in the medical field. Next, a general search web server tab  408  such as Google.com is provided. A search is run if this tab is activated, which searches the content of this web platform and return hits in the window area  410  associated with the search engine. The same can be said for all tabs. Buttons on the upper right corner of the MySearch page  400  also provide tools for adding and editing tabs  1009 . Other tabs  408 ,  409 ,  410 ,  411 , and  412  allow for searching in other subareas of data that can be found either locally on the proprietary server or on a remote server. For example, tab  412  allows for the search in the bookmarked results. 
         [0056]    When a bookmark of any piece of data is selected and added as a bookmark in the personalized bookmark, the interface  100  stores or uploads the data associated with the bookmark either on a server, either proprietary or remote, or creates an object link to the remote piece of information for later retrieval. In one contemplated embodiment, the data is uploaded on the proprietary server for easier access and retrieval from any remote user browser through the Internet. While one method of storage of the information to be searched is shown, what is contemplated is the use of any parser or object technology needed to associate the bookmark with the underlying bookmarked data. 
         [0057]    Window area  410  shows a conventional and well-known list of hits returned from the search engine arranged sequentially, normally top to bottom, using a defined tool. Each link includes the name of the webpage  405  along with a header providing the webpage title, which typically doubles as an Internet link. Below the webpage  405 , a link  404  allows a user to add the link to the MyBookmark list  500 . An icon  406  is added or can substitute the link  404 . In one embodiment, the sequential ordering of the pages returned by the search engine of MySearch is made by using the user-defined data either from the stored files in the MyFiles tab  600  or the data stored in conjunction with the bookmarks in the MyBookmark tab  500 . 
         [0058]      FIG. 4  is a webpage illustrating the MyBookmarks tab  500  of a personalized, online, scientific interface  100  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Bookmarks are stored and displayed in an embodiment using a tree structure  505  where files  506 ,  503  are stored in subdirectories  504 . The bookmarks can be associated with files, websites, pages of a presentation, notes, search results in general, or any displayed item that can be accessed using the personalized, online, scientific interface  100 . Icon  502  is used to alter the display of the bookmarks from a simple tree structure to any possible configuration, including but not limited to a dual screen there the tree structure  501  is displayed on the left portion of the display and on the right an apercu is displayed of any selected item  502  as shown in  FIGS. 17-21 . 
         [0059]    At  FIG. 17 , a webpage is selected for preview as part of the bookmarks  502 . In the right window, a portion of the webpage is rendered  505  and can be viewed using, for example, scroll bars if the display is of insufficient size to display the entire webpage  505 . Information regarding the webpage is also displayed  504  using tab menus. Different information, such as the title, the size, duration, and URL, is show along with descriptive data to be entered by a user. Other tabs such as tags  506  or additional tags  507  can also be added manually to provide additional profile information for the webpage  502 . 
         [0060]      FIG. 18  displays in the right side window  508  an image of the bookmark if the bookmark refers to an image  510 . A low-resolution image  511  can be displayed along with a properties window  509 .  FIG. 19  illustrates a situation where a text file is chosen as a bookmark  603  in the bookmark area  602 . The page rendered in the right side window  601  corresponds to a rendered version of the text file using Flash technology. Slide presentations, such as PowerPoint® presentations, if stored as bookmarks as shown in  FIG. 20 , can be displayed using an icon, a thumbnail view, or a detailed view  604 .  FIG. 21  shows yet another embodiment where different image files or screen shots can be fully displayed using small, cropped images of the pages as a preview  610 . While a handful of embodiments are shown, what is contemplated is the use of any known interface to display to the user over the Internet through a browser a pictorial or nonpictorial representation of the different pieces of data associated with stored bookmarks. 
         [0061]      FIG. 5  is a webpage illustrating the MyFiles tab  600  of a personalized, online, scientific interface  100  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The different files uploaded and stored within the personalized, online, scientific interface  100  can be displayed, shown, stored, and accessed using the same display management system as shown for the MyBookmarks tab  500  as shown in  FIGS. 17-21 . 
         [0062]      FIG. 7A  is an illustration of a pop-up window  413  opened as the result of selecting an “add to my bookmarks” button  404  on the personalized, online, scientific interface  100  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. This window  413  opens automatically as a result of clicking on the “add to my bookmark” link or button  404 . Data such as a title  415 , a name  416 , or a destination folder  414  can be added using selection buttons  417 . The selection of the destination folder  414  results in a pull-down list with scroll bars for the selection of a destination directory or subdirectory as shown in  FIG. 7B . 
         [0063]      FIG. 8  is an illustration of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting the MySearch tab  400  shown in  FIG. 3  and further selecting the video tab  409  on the personalized, online, scientific interface  100  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure and shown in  FIG. 3 . Unlike webpages, videos must be associated with indexing information to be retrieved and searched. The indexed information is also used on images searched or electronic exhibits instead or in addition to the text contained in the exhibit itself.  FIG. 15  illustrates how the indexing information  484  and  490  is transferred to a server database  492  through a link  493  for later access and search. The indexing information of a video or an image  484  includes a description, a title in the form of a dynamic link, a caption, a source, a date of publication, a selection to bookmark the image or video, to bookmark the entire article or data in which the video or image is found, a selection to view the article, and a selection to expand the video or image for view of high resolution images or videos. 
         [0064]    Electronic exhibits indexing information  490  can include a description, a title in the form of a dynamic link, the authorship and the associated disclosure, the purpose of the exhibit, the methods and materials used during the test resulting in the exhibit, the results of the testing, the conclusions drawn by the author, or even the clinical relevance and the application associated with the exhibit. 
         [0065]    Returning to  FIG. 8 , the search results are shown from left to right  457  where a thumbnail of each is displayed instead of being arranged sequentially from top to bottom. Tools such as a pop-up box with the title of an image can be shown  459  if a cursor is hovered over an image in the search result. The display also includes the display of key information associated with a selected image, such as the title of the presentation  454 , the authors, or icons to view the presentation or add the image to the bookmarks  456  or associated dynamic web links  455 . 
         [0066]    If the image is a slideshow or a presentation, the user may use the “view this presentation” link or the associated icon to launch a digital presentation system  455  as shown in  FIG. 9 . In one embodiment, this system opens in a different window. The digital presentation system  455 , much like the personalized, online, scientific interface  100 , is described as a series of horizontal tabs for accessing different functions in the software. For both the digital presentation system  455  and the personalized, online, scientific interface  100 , the use of horizontal tabs corresponds only to one of a wide variety of embodiments available to interface programmers. 
         [0067]    In one embodiment, a personalized, online, scientific interface  100  as shown in  FIG. 2  operates within the memory of a web server  450  as shown in  FIG. 36  connected to a user browser  421  operating on a computer having a processor and memory for executing the browser software through an Internet connection  422 . The interface  100  includes a plurality of customized tabs as shown, for example, on  FIG. 2  as elements  110 ,  400 ,  500 ,  600 , and a plurality of tabs includes at least a personalized interface tab  110  and a personalized search tab  400  where the personalized interface tab  110  includes at least a user profile  120  and an access window to a reference database  130  or  140 . 
         [0068]    In another embodiment, the personalized interface tab  110  further includes a list of abstracts  170  submitted to an operator of the online scientific interface for approval. The personalized search tab  110  as shown in  FIG. 3  may also include at least a tab for displaying search  450  results at a proprietary server, a tab for displaying search results at an application-specific web server  407 , and a tab for displaying search results from a general search web server  408 . The personalized search tab  110  may also include a tab selected from the group consisting of a video database  409 , an image database  410 , and electronic exhibit database  411 , and a bookmark database  412 . 
         [0069]    As shown in  FIG. 2 , the user profile  120 , the access window to a reference database  130 ,  140 , and the list of abstracts  170  submitted to an operator of the online scientific interface  10  for approval of the personalized interface tab  110  are arranged within a display surface. The personalized search tab  110  may also include a feature to search previously searched databases  402 . In another embodiment, the content displayed in the plurality of tabs is customized based upon a user&#39;s knowledge  1009  using icons. The searches conducted within the personalized search tab include a series of dynamic links  405 , each for uploading a source of information and wherein each dynamic link further includes an icon for bookmarking  406  the link as part of a personalized bookmark tab  500 . Finally, in another embodiment, the information displayed to the browser  421  is converted by a Flash module  1402  at the proprietary server  450  for uploading of an image to the user browser through the Internet  422 . 
         [0070]    In another embodiment, the tabs of the personalized, online, scientific interface  100  include at least a personalized interface tab  110  and a personalized bookmark tab  500 . In yet another embodiment, the tabs of the personalized, online, scientific interface  100  include at least a personalized interface tab  110  and a personalized files folder tab  600 . 
         [0071]    As shown in  FIG. 17 , the personalized bookmark tab  500  includes a first display window  501  of a list of a customizable list of bookmarks  502  and a second display window  505  adjacent to the first display window  501  for displaying a preview of a subject matter of any selected bookmark from the first display window alongside a profile of the bookmark  504 . The profile  504  may include at least a name of the bookmark and a dynamic link of a storage location of the selected bookmark displayed in the second display window. The content displayed in the plurality of tabs of the personalized, online, scientific interface  100  is customized based on a user&#39;s knowledge using icons  111 . 
         [0072]    The personalized file folder tab  600  includes a third display window  601  of a list of files uploaded to a server for storage and a fourth display window  602  adjacent to the third display window  601  for displaying a preview icon of a subject matter of any selected file within a directory from a chosen file from the third display window. 
         [0073]      FIG. 9  shows the digital presentation system  455  with a view of the third tab from the left the presentation tab  1010 .  FIG. 10  illustrates the webpage display associated with the first communities tab  473 ,  FIG. 11  illustrates the webpage display associated with the second tab, the scientific sessions tab  475 , and  FIG. 12  represents the fourth video tab  477 . The other tabs as shown, such as the My Educator tab  1011 , the Awards tab  1012 , the Search tab  1013 , and the Help tab  1014 , each relate to functions defined by their respective names. 
         [0074]    Returning to  FIG. 9 , a main window  460  displays one page of a presentation along with toolbars  470  and tools for navigating between the different successive slides of the presentation. Icons  469  are also available to change the display from a single slide presentation to a multislide presentation, to change the sound, or even run videos when desired. What is also shown in a vertical bar  468  on the left of the Flash image illustrating one page of the presentation  460  where a small slide summary can be displayed, or the title of each slide to help with the presentation. While one display technology is shown, what is contemplated is the use and display of any known display technology associated with slide presentations. The main window  460  is surrounded in the given example by a series of smaller windows  461  to  467  either opened as shown by windows  461 ,  462 ,  466 , and  467  or compressed as shown by windows  463 - 465 . 
         [0075]    The digital presentation system  455  may be used at large venues by a remote or live participant. Window  461  is a live discussion tool with a scroll window for display of the ongoing conversation with other attendees of the presentation given by a presenter, a header box and a link to list and contact the different colleagues currently in the discussion. Window  462  is a tool for entering and sending to an author or a presenter of the slide presentation  460  feedback and comments that may be viewed or accessed either by the presenter or by some or most of the attendees. 
         [0076]    Window  466  is a tool for giving the presentation  460  and the associated presenter a measured importance, including, for example, using a rating, bookmarking the presentation, or answering questions asked of the attendees for survey or academic currency purposes. A tool for entering notes  467  is shown. This function allows an attendee to place or associate in a stored version of the presentation specific notes on each slide or general notes on the presentation. While a plurality of other windows can be added to the digital presentation system  455 , window  463  is an area where the abstract of the presentation can be shown, window  464  is a slide list of the presentation, and window  465  is a search tool for the indexed information of the presentation. 
         [0077]      FIG. 10  is a webpage illustration of the Communities webpage displayed once the Communities tab  473  is pressed on the webpage shown in  FIG. 9  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. When a great number of abstracts are uploaded and ultimately lead to a large number of presentations to be shown at a single venue, different presentations can be distributed in different categories  472  as part of a community  473 . For example, the digital presentation system  455  for a medical seminar on radiology can hold presentations directed to breast, cardiac, or chest radiology, etc. An attendee who specializes in breast radiology selects the radiology tab and reviews in the open space  471  the different presentations available either at a selected time in the venue or the presentations that can be run online at the user&#39;s convenience. In the open space  471 , several summaries of presentations can be seen. The first illustrated as LL-CH4746 is described as a presentation on the pulmonary artery-predominant Takeyasu&#39;s arteritis: A Radiological Diagnosis. The authors are then listed and an icon is provided to bookmark the presentation in the MyBookmark  500  area of the personalized, online, scientific interface  100 . The rating and notes entered by the user are also shown once a user has viewed the presentation and filled in the windows  466  and  467  as shown in  FIG. 9 . 
         [0078]      FIG. 11  is a webpage illustration of the Scientific Sessions webpage displayed once the Scientific Session tab is pressed on the webpage shown in  FIG. 9  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Scientific sessions are a different way for a venue to organize and group a series of presentation aside from the communities shown in  FIG. 10 . Finally, the digital presentation system  455  also includes a tab to display videos  477  found in the different presentations within the system  455 . This indexing allows users to quickly browse the presentations for images of interest to determine whether attendance or participation at a specific presentation is worthwhile. The display includes a page indexer  482 , a list of search hits shown sequentially  481 , and a display of subsequent slides  479  of a selected video  478 . 
         [0079]    Returning to  FIGS. 13A and 13B ,  FIG. 13A  is a webpage illustration of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting the MySearch tab  400  shown in  FIG. 3  and further selecting the Image tab  410  on the personalized, online, scientific interface  100 . Much like videos can be searched, images can be similarly searched and displayed with greater resolution as shown in FIG.  13 B.\ 
         [0080]      FIG. 14  is an illustration of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting the MySearch tab  400  shown in  FIG. 3  and further selecting the Electronic Exhibit tab  411  on the personalized, online, scientific interface  100  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The same type of interface is used where the first page of the electronic exhibits are shown  490 . A dynamic link and an icon  491  allow the user to launch the digital presentation system  455  shown in  FIG. 8 .  FIG. 16  is a representation of the webpage displayed as a result of selecting the MySearch tab  400  shown in  FIG. 3  and further selecting the Bookmark Results tab  412  on the personalized, online, scientific interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 
         [0081]    As part of the personalized, online, scientific interface  100 , abstracts from users can be monitored using window  170  as shown in  FIG. 2 . Within the process of gaining academic currency, such as, for example, gaining public recognition by the scientific community, a plurality of abstracts on different topics are uploaded by a user who may already know and use the personalized, online, scientific interface  100  described above and have knowledge of the digital presentation system  455  when attending conferences in person or remotely. The different presentations are uploaded for later display to peers or publication using paper-based publications, Internet diffusion, or diffusion via the digital presentation system  455  described above. Abstracts are uploaded and evaluated by peers through a process described hereafter and illustrated in  FIGS. 22-35 . 
         [0082]    In an embodiment shown at  FIG. 9 , a digital presentation system  455  is operating within the memory of a proprietary web server  450  connected to a user browser  421  through an Internet connection  422 , the system producing HTML pages as shown in  FIGS. 1-3  for displaying on a display (not shown) of the computer of a user using an Internet browser compatible with the HTML format HTML pages with a Flash image  460  of a slide generated from a slide presentation, a toolbar for navigating the slide presentation  470  and display of different Flash images of the slide presentation, and a live discussion tool  461  for interacting with other users over the Internet about the Flash image  460 . The HTML pages further include a tool for entering notes  467  relating to the Flash image wherein these notes are stored in the memory of the proprietary web server  450 . 
         [0083]    The digital presentation system  455  also includes a tool for entering and sending to an author of the slide presentation feedback comments  462 . Attendees can also communicate with each other and interact with the authors. In another embodiment, the digital presentation system  455  further includes a tool for giving a slide a measured importance for later archiving and retrieval  466 , and a tool for giving a rating to the slide presentation. The text shown on the Flash image  460  is used as an indexing text of the Flash image, and the system further includes a tool for searching the text as described above. 
         [0084]    A method associated with this process is shown as  FIG. 37 . A user can either log into a personalized portal with submission  1404  such as the personalized, online, scientific interface  100 , or simply log into a submission portal  1403 . This author is then granted permission to upload an abstract for submission  1405  through the portal as shown in  FIGS. 23-28 . Based on the nature and subject of these abstracts, they are then assigned by group coordinators to evaluators  1406  via a peer review process.  FIGS. 29-34  illustrate this process. The abstract is then either rejected or accepted and the status is then changed on the abstract window  170  on the personalized, online, scientific interface  100 . 
         [0085]    If and when accepted, the author or authors are then invited to enter the body of the presentation  1407  using an interface as shown in  FIG. 35 . Once the presentation is completed, it is sent for either publication or presentation at a venue. The digital presentation system  455  can be used to present the presentation  1408 . The digital presentation system  455  is connected via the Internet to remote attendees and to local computers located in the different rooms at the venue. A venue management tool  1408  allows for the management of rooms, the publication to peers  1412 , the evaluation over time of the academic currency of a presenter  1411 , and ultimately a wide range of reporting data  1410  to the presenter. For example, the attendance, the general ratings given, the locations of the attendees around the world, and the associated feedbacks can be reported to the presenter. 
         [0086]    The interface  1100  used to build a presentation from an abstract is shown in  FIG. 35 . Users may also use resident software to prepare the presentation and upload the finished product. In  FIG. 35 , a window to the left allows users to click-and-drag files from a database  1104  into an area  1103  defined as a slide. Images, equations  1102 , videos, or any other media can be uploaded directly onto the page  1103 . Text  1101  can also be added. Menus for editing effects, files, filters, slides, and tools can also be used to help in the creation of finished presentation. 
         [0087]      FIG. 22  is a representation of the home webpage of a presentation editor  700  for working with and evaluating a presentation or an abstract in the online scientific interface  100  according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Under the My Presentations  716  tab, a user selects an abstract to be edited into a full presentation.  FIG. 22  illustrates a situation where a single abstract  710  is found and can be selected by pressing the dynamic link  713 . An icon  715  allows a pop-up window to display the abstract as shown in  FIG. 31 . Authors are listed  714  and other reference identifiers can be added  711 ,  712  to help the interface classify and store the abstract in the digital presentation system  455 . 
         [0088]    Once the abstract is chosen,  FIG. 23  illustrates a page with information  811  and important guidelines for drafting the presentation according to needed specifications  812 . A bar  810  allows for a quick overview of the abstract by listing from left to right the reference identifiers of an educator  813 , a title  814 , a status  815 , a “view” button  816 , an “upload” button  817 , and an “edit” button  818 .  FIG. 24  shows a first webpage with a description of the different types of papers to be submitted for classification of the presentation  820 . 
         [0089]      FIG. 25  shows different horizontally arranged tabs for entering the type of category  831  with both a parent category  836  and a subcategory  837 , an author tab  832  for entering and designating the authorship of the presentation and a review status  833 , a question tab  834 , and a tab where the abstract can be accessed  835 . At the review board status  833 , different questions may be presented to the author as shown at  FIG. 26 , and at the Questions step  834 , different questions of general interest may be asked as shown in  FIG. 27 .  FIG. 28  shows a summary dashboard for submitting the different portions of the presentation, namely, the title, the purpose, the method and materials, the results, the conclusion, and the clinical relevance/application. 
         [0090]    Peer reviewers are then assigned abstracts for review and grading to determine if they are to be passed for full presentation or denied.  FIGS. 29-34  show illustrations of this process. In  FIG. 29 , a handful of abstracts  930  are illustrated on different rows of the table and are assigned and graded. For example, at  FIG. 29 , the percentage of completion of the musculoskeletal abstracts assigned is 100%. The interface lists  160  abstracts in this subcategory. Next to each abstract, the grade is given. By selecting a tool from the small tool area at  FIG. 29 , the table of  FIG. 30  is opened. Each graded abstract is then described  920  using the grade for one or a plurality of graders, the existence of conflicts, the newsworthiness of the topic, the possible transfer, or duplicate nature of the abstracted information. An average grade is then calculated for each abstract. 
         [0091]      FIG. 32  shows a breakdown  940  of all abstract in a category, such as musculoskeletal.  FIG. 33  shows a possible grid  950  used to give rapid grading from 1 to 10 to each abstract.  FIG. 34  shows in a summary table how each abstract can be graded and presented in rows. A grader is able to compare his grade with the average grade given by other graders for each of the abstracts graded. 
         [0092]    In one embodiment, a method is contemplated having the steps of providing an integrated online interface  1404  as shown in  FIG. 37  for allowing an author to submit an abstract  1405 , then giving access to peers for the review of the abstract  1406 , followed by allowing the author to enter the body of the presentation  1407 , and finally, presenting the presentation to peers  1408 . Subsequent steps includes providing a venue management tool  1409  for managing the presentation given by a plurality of authors each with a different presentation to peers in a venue and reporting  1410  to each author data associated with the presentations given at the venue. 
         [0093]    In an alternate embodiment, the method further comprises the step of providing a venue management tool  1409  that includes providing an academic currency report  1411 . The step of submitting the abstract  1405  by the author may be preceded by the step of logging into a personalized portal  1404  with submission links or logging into a submission portal  1403 . The venue management tool may also further comprise a step of awarding at least one presentation with an excellence award (not shown). 
         [0094]    Persons of ordinary skill in the art appreciate that although the teachings of this disclosure have been illustrated in connection with certain embodiments and methods, there is no intent to limit the invention to such embodiments and methods. On the contrary, the intention of this disclosure is to cover all modifications and embodiments falling fairly within the scope the teachings of the disclosure.