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Twenty -fifth #BABAO2013 Conference Abstract: Open Session Andrew S. Wilson, Jo Buckberry, Chris Gaffney, Hassan Ugail, Keith Manchester, Natasha Powers, Carina Phillips, Martyn Cooke, Tom Sparrow, Andrew Holland, Rebecca Storm, Emma Brown, Don Walker, Mike Henderson, Alan Ogden, Emmy Bocaege, Maryann Hardy, Anthea Boylston, Gordon Le Roux, David Keenan, Pawel Eliasz, David Connah Digitised Diseases: a pre-launch preview In advance of the official launch of the JISC-funded project Digitised Diseases in the week following the BABAO conference, we are offering a sneak preview of some of the features of this resource. Whilst many osteologists and other users around the world have been enjoying our regular progress updates via our active blog posts, this presentation will offer an advanced preview of the opportunities that await when the resource goes live. Since November 2011 our team of researchers at Bradford and our project partners at Museum of London Archaeology and the Royal College of Surgeons have undertaken a programme of mass digitisation of representative type pathological specimens from world renowned archaeological and historically significant collections in Bradford, London and York. The skeletal elements have been digitised using Faro QuantumArms with V3 laser, with photo-realistic ‘texturing’ to enable virtual handling of specimens that would otherwise be too fragile to submit to regular handling. These specimens are supported by detailed palaeopathological descriptions and associated clinical synopses. Where appropriate we have also included CT and radiographic information, together with other visual materials to aid interpretation and understanding of chronic palaeopathological conditions affecting the skeleton. We envisage that the use of our dynamic 3D visual resource to explore these valuable collections will make type-specimens far more widely available to a diverse user community and will have broad impact amongst osteologists, palaeopathologists, clinicians, medical trainees, medical historians, archaeologists, as well as enriching the wider public understanding of science.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:44:08 +0000

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