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Issues in Creating an Extendable Online Search-Engine of Anatomical Terms Based on Terminologia Anatomica, the Making of www.AnatomicalTerms.info.

Paul Gobée, Dept. of Anatomy & Embryology, Leiden University Medical Center

 

Different terms for the same anatomical structure form a long-standing problem for students. Latin, English, eponyms, old terms, acronyms, to name a few. To alleviate these problems, we built the web site www.anatomicalterms.info. At present, it contains over 30,000 terms, in a number of languages, covering 92% of Terminologia Anatomica. A suggest-ahead search system provides intuitive look-up. A term may be entered in one of the available languages, translations are returned in response. In addition, a Google image and document search regarding the term are performed automatically.
This session will address the following topics:

- What is present on the Web or digitalized, regarding anatomical terminology?
- How was AnatomicalTerms.info built? The underlying open-sourced Foundational Model of Anatomy (http://sig.biostr.washington.edu/projects/fm/AboutFM.html), technical backgrounds.
- Issues encountered in getting data from Terminologia Anatomica and Foundational Model of Anatomy consistent, and setting up a structure that allows for different languages and possible future classifications.
- Demonstration of the site.
- Wikification and extending the site: which problems need to be solved? Wikification: can we balance power and reliability? Terms lacking in laymen languages: resort to descriptions? Singular and pleural, embryological, histological, clinical terms? Who leads: the term or the structure?
- Combining resources and efforts: we welcome any cooperators!
- How can we use such sites or other aids in our education to help students getting to grips with the terminology? Discuss your own experiences and find out any other solutions!



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