1	Conversion of an Existing Web Site to MIRC Amilcare Gentili, MD UCSD http://www.gentili.net
2	Abstract An advantage of having a web site with documents conforming to the MIRCdocument schema is that the content can be easily indexed and shared over the Internet. Different approaches are available to make the content of an existing web site accessible through the MIRC community. These options include: 1) creation of an "index card" for each document, 2) rebuilding the documents as MIRCdocuments, and 3) development of a software layer necessary to communicate with a query service for teaching file systems based on a database. Advantages and disadvantages of these different approaches are discussed in view of our experience in making the content of an existing web site MIRC compatible. In our case we used a combination of approaches. We preferred index cards for PowerPoint presentations and for complex HTML documents, and we favored rebuilding the documents as MIRCdocuments for pages generated from a database.
3	How to Convert to MIRC? For static pages Create index cards for each page Rebuild the documents as MIRC documents For database generated pages Create static index cards Create new static MIRC documents Create an interface between MIRC server and database
4	For Static Pages Create index cards for each page Advantages Easy to do. Less time consuming. Disadvantages No images included. Refer to original web site for document and images display.
5	Rebuild the documents as MIRC documents Advantages New documents will be on the MIRC server Disadvantages More work Text and images need to be inserted into a new document
6	For Database Generated Pages Static index cards Less time consuming No images included. Refer to original web site for document and images display. Create new static MIRC documents Modify script to generate HTML pages to generate XML document Create an interface between MIRC server and database Require control of server Require programming experience
7	Author’s Choice For static pages Create index cards for each page For database generated pages Create new static MIRC documents
8	For Static Pages A modified web browser was used to generate MIRC index cards.
9	Modified Web Browser Automaticly capture data from HTML documents URL Title Date Published Authors – from META data Keywords – from META data
10	Modified Web Browser
11	"Default option can be entered..." Default option can be entered to save time retyping
12	"The text of the web..." The text of the web page is automatically extracted, the first 1000 characters are use for the abstract, the rest is used for searching
13	"The URL" The URL, title and publication date are capture from the web page. If META data are present are used for the authors and keywords
14	"The blanc fields can be..." The blanc fields can be filled using default values
15	A MIRC Index Card is Generated
16	Database Generated Pages A Visual Basic program was used to: Create XML MIRC documents Pack the XML document and images in a ZIP file RSNA FileSender was used to send ZIP files to server
17	Original Web Page
18	Database Structure Three tables Signs Images References
19	Mapping of Database Fields to MIRC Elements
20	Field kept the same for all documents
21	Files are Automatically Generated from the Database
22	"XML Document and supporting files..." XML Document and supporting files are compressed in a single ZIP file, ready to be uploaded to the MIRC server
23	MIRC Document
24	File can be Batch Uploaded with MIRC File Sender
25	Converted Document
26	References RSNA MIRC website http://mirc.rsna.org