Project Details:
Open University United Kingdom Virtual Microscope for Earth Sciences
The aim of this project is to create the United Kingdom Virtual Microscope (UKVM) for Earth science as a freely accessible on-line open educational resource. Using the UKVM, students will zoom, pan, and rotate specimens in variable light conditions, helping to develop their classification and identification skills without need for high cost microscopes and thin section preparation facilities.
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Funding period:November 2011 to January 2013
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Organisations: The British Geological Survey The Earth Science Teachers Association The Geological Society of London The Hunterian Museum The Mineralogical Society The National Museum Wales The Open University The Royal Society of Medicine The Sedgwick Museum |
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Standards
Standards
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| HTML5 |
Replacing Flash implementation with HTML5 to allow "mobile first" approach that will work on as wide a set of platforms as possible
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| TIFF |
Original images are >140 GB-sized files, large files are an issue.
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| JPEG |
Images as viewed through microscope
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| mp4 |
short clips, 2-3 minutes, of supporting material, describing context.
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Technologies
Technologies
Comments:
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 14:19:59
Mobile first: design for tablet, but so that will work OK on phone-sized devices and look good on full-sized screens
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 14:11:44
May be some issues around tracking direct us of images not through microscope site
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 14:07:51
Discussing possibility of embedding microscope functionality into other sites through iframes or similar.
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 14:03:45
can share views through microscope by sharing URLs for reference or embedding. Lanuches specific view of slide (location, magnification, orientation etc.) (think of as similar to sharing views of Google Maps through URL)
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:58:09
Will think about using project tag (UKVM?) to allow easy identification of project outputs.
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:54:40
http://www.nquire.org.uk/
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:54:18
Exploring use of NQuire to create framework to allow students to explore rock.
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:53:17
Geological maps / overlays that will place location in context.
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:52:56
Background learning materials, based around existing OU materials, will be hosted on OpenLearn.
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:51:32
May put descriptions on Jorum / Jisc MediaHub
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:48:49
Not sure what would be right repository for sharing original images. May host on current server (cloud based)
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:45:09
Image metadata for jpegs
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:43:39
Metadata for images: huge spreadsheet of geology specific information for images. This is framework on which moodle delivery is built
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:41:48
Will be using HTML 5 tiling system to transform large TIFFs to JPEGs for viewing
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:30:51
Creating microscope slides of thin sections of rocks and 3d rotating images of rocks.
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:29:44
Some common ground with strand B Fossil digitisation project: have spoken with that team.
Posted by philb at 2012-05-02 13:25:46
Might be depositing materials in OpenLearn
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Programme-Manager: Paola Marchionni Maintainer: Simon Kelley