Media Server
The Stanford MediaServer was conceived and implemented as a centralized web-based management system for the collection, organization, authoring, and distribution of media collections in the biomedical research and education communities at Stanford.
One collection is a digitized version of the original images from The David L. Bassett Atlas of Human Anatomy. Beginning in 1948, Dr. Bassett from the department of Anatomy at Stanford University School of Medicine and William B. Gruber, inventor of the Viewmaster system of stereo display, worked together to photograph Dr. Bassett's detailed cadaveric dissections using a stereoscopic camera. Accompanying the stereo images are beautifully traced line drawings and figure legends identifying dissected structures.. This collection provided an opportunity to tune the MediaServer interface to facilitate its use for faculty and students of anatomy. Features that were added included:
- Improved searching: Users are now allowed to search by region and sub-region, such as knee and then arteries of the knee. Descriptive keywords were assigned based on subjective impressions of media content and reviewed by medical staff for appropriateness.
- Ability to view in stereo. Users may view either monoscopic or stereoscopic images in the Bassett collection on any internet browser running the latest release build of the JAVA 3DTM (Sun Microsystems, Inc.) application.
- Organizing image sets by class. Anatomy instructors can create a group of image sets and associate them with the course name.