1. Introduction
This paper gives an overview of MediBook, a joint project of the Medical Department of University Giel3en (Ger- many) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Darmstadt University of Tech- nology (Germany) funded by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Arts (HMWK). The goal of the project is the enhancement of education in Medical Schools by means of a flexible system. The flexibility of the system aims at self-studying, independently from space and time. MediBook is a system which provides tools for storing, managing and especially locating and combining learning resources. It offers means for both describing single sources (thereby putting them into a context) and combining single resources to courses. Thus MediBook represents a knowledge base with efficient access and tools to generate arbitrary coherent courses from single information units.