Digital Anatomy BoF

Members of the Internet2 Health Sciences community convened during the Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting—which took place 27-30 September 2004 in Austin, TX—to discuss the potential for a Digital Anatomy BoF ("Bird of a Feather" group) within the Internet2 community. Participants at the BoF proposed that Internet2 develop a project and a team, based in the Health Sciences Working Group, to explore the creation of an anatomy teaching resource accessible over Internet2. This will be a cross-cutting initiative with broad applicability and requiring the involvement of a diverse collection of communities.

Presentations

Presentations from the Digital Anatomy BoF entitled "The Visible Human and Digital Anatomy: Proposal for a Cross-Cutting Internet2 Initiative BoF," which took place at the Internet2 Fall 2004 Member Meeting, are listed below:

  • Internet2 and Teaching with Visualization: Digital Anatomy and the Visible Human Project [ppt] [html]
    Parvati Dev, Stanford University
  • Framework for Digital Anatomy [ppt] [html]
    Steven Senger, University of Wisconsin—LaCrosse
  • Information Channels Framework [ppt] [html]
    Steven Senger, University of Wisconsin—LaCrosse

Proposal

The Visible Human and Digital Anatomy areas now have a large number of imaging and learning resources at various states of development and deployment. At the same time, anatomy teaching faculty at all medicals schools are experiencing cutbacks in teaching hours and staff. We propose that Internet2 develop a project and a team, based in the Health Sciences Working Group, to explore the creation of an anatomy teaching resource accessible over Internet2. This will be a cross-cutting initiative with broad applicability and requiring the involvement of a diverse collection of communities. It will seize an opportunity created by a convergence of needs and technical capabilities. The immediate result of the project will be the identification of technologies and standards needed to support a sophisticated collection of tools for teaching anatomy. At many levels it will require the unique capabilities of the Internet2 community.

Parvati Dev of Stanford University and Steven Senger of University of Wisconsin—LaCrosse drafted the following proposal entitled The Visible Human and Digital Anatomy Learning Initiative (or click here for a Word or PDF version).

Links and Resources

Contact Us

For additional information, please contact:

Parvati Dev <parvati@stanford.edu>
Steven Senger <senger@csfac.uwlax.edu>

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