Supercomputing services provider Super Computing Solutions (SCS), Italy, has released an interactive digital library service called PhysiomeSpace. The service is designed to manage and share a large collection of heterogeneous biomedical data, such as medical imaging, motion capture, biomedical instrumentation signals and finite element models.
The digital library services are hosted on the Biomed Town community portal and can be accessed from www.physiomespace.com. PhysiomeSpace is currently a free service which offers up to 1GB of space. It is managed using a client-server approach. The client application, PSLoader, is used to import, fuse and enrich the data information according to the PhysiomeSpace resource ontology and also to upload and download the resources to the library.
A search service seeks to capitalise on the domain ontology and on the enrichment of metadata for each resource, providing a powerful discovery environment. The metadata are described in an extensible ontology composed of a master ontology and a series of sub-ontologies which can be added by the users' communities, depending on their needs.
PhysiomeSpace is currently in the process to release the Living Human Digital Library (LHDL), a multiscale musculoskeletal data collection co-fundeded by the European Commission. The LHDL seeks to provide a unique systematic quantification of morphological and functional aspects of the musculoskeletal system, at a range of dimensional scales from the whole body down to the tissue constituents. The full data collection will be progressively released with a cadence of two weeks, starting from June 29, 2010. The LDHL ran from February 2006 to February 2009 under the scientific coordination of the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (IOR, Italy) and with the participation of the University of Bedfordshire (UK), the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium), the Open University (UK) and the CINECA supercomputing centre (Italy).
Search for more STM information
