2. Outline
● Intent ● Organization of
● Beginnings and Volunteers
History ● Ways to Help
● Components ● Resources and
● Achievements Pointers
● Use cases ● Recap
● Vision ● Q&A
3. Free Software Concept
● free software, free data, copyleft, non-
copyright.
● free as in "free beer" & "free speech"
● users have the freedom to run, copy,
distribute, study, change and improve the
software
● Eg: Linux, OpenStreet Maps
● http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
● Sapiens Mapping Project - GNU GPLv3
○ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html
4. Intent
● Open Sourcing the Knowledge about the
Human Body
● Linking visualizations in 2D and 3D (raster
and vectorial) with each other, with medical
vocabulary, translations, medical articles and
more
● Knowledge organized by layers and
sublayers
● A kind of Google Earth inside the human
body
5. Beginnings and History
● Ideea started in 2009
● Acquisition of right to use images from the
Visible Korean Human in 2011
● Volunteers from Carol Davila started work on
Nomina Anatomica vocabulary in Jan, 2011
● Nomina Anatomica ver. 1.0 with 7000
translated terms released Sep, 2011
● Sapiens Navigator 2D ver. 1.0 for the web,
Nov 2011
7. Nomina Anatomica v 1.0
● 7000 terms in Latin, English, Romanian
● English -> Romanian with Carol Davila
volunteers
● 1000 terms used in "Nomina Anatomica"
Sapiens Navigator 2D superlayer
● Available free of charge on sliced.ro, App
Store, Android Market, application in
Windows, Mac OSX, Linux
8.
9. Sliced Sapiens ver. 1.2
● section chooser
● 1700 horizontal slices (by 1 mm)
● 243 sagittal slices (by 5 mm)
● 130 coronal slices (by 5 mm)
● available free of charge on sliced.ro, on App
Store for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, as
Windows and Linux application
10.
11. Sapiens Navigator 2D ver. 0.9 (web)
● Integration of Nomina Anatomica and Sliced
Sapiens data
● Nomina Anatomica superlayer with more
than 1000 anatomical terms mapped in
vector format on 1700 slices (horizontal)
● Ability to add future superlayers
12.
13. Sapiens Quest ver. 0.8
● Gamification of eLearning
● ~40.000 randomly-generated Human
Anatomy questions
● Range from easy to medium to very hard
● @ http://sliced.ro/apps/fb/sapiens_quest.php
in near future on Facebook games; later
maybe on mobile phones
16. Vision
● Extend SMP vocabulary from 7000 to
155.000 terms
● Gamification of eLearning
● Deep integration with Social Networks
(Facebook, etc.)
● SMP + Zygote (3D), Wikipedia
● Find and maintain origins, axes, and
relative units for the Visible Human Body
● Become a glue for Medical Science (as
Google Earth is for Geo mapping)
17. Gamification of eLearning
Now: Sapiens Quest
Future:
● Sapiens Quest Game on Facebook
● Extending Sapiens Quest from Nomina
Anatomica questions to:
○ Pathology
○ Bio-Chemistry
● Medical Biometry Game
18. Deep Integration with Social Cloud
Now: Unsuccessful attempts on Facebook and
Google
Future:
● SMP Workgroup + Facebook
● Sapiens Quest + Facebook
19. SMP + Zygote, Wikipedia
Now: None
Future:
● Click on an organ shape in Sapiens
Navigator to open that organ in 3D in Zygote
● Click on an organ in Sapiens Navigator to
open its Wikipedia page
20. Origins, Axes, Relative Units
● Biometrics of the Visible Human Body
● The Vitruvian Man: Pythagoras, Vitruvius,
Leonardo da Vinci
● Statistical data; gamification of sampling
● Maintain the mean and deviation relative to:
○ gender
○ race
○ weight
○ later: DNA profiling
● Multiple origins: torso, head, members
● Addressability by pointers and URL like
Google Earth
21. Glue for Medical Science
Now: Nomina Anatomica superlayer
Future: Superlayers for:
● Medical Images in 2D and 3D; drawings and
photos
● Placemarks for Medical Articles
● Routes for Biochemistry (inside the 2d and
3d body)
Ability to deep-zoom to the level of tissue and
cell
22. Organization of
Volunteers
● Ambassadors
● Team Leaders
● Data Editors, Verifiers
● Data Collectors, Translators
23. Ambassadors
● Maintain interface between the project and
outside institutions (Carol Davila, etc.)
● Organize Missionaria
● Prepare conferences, presentations, fliers
● Talk to teachers, professors
● Talk to volunteers and prospective
volunteers
24. Team Leaders
● Each subproject has a team leader
● Responsible with:
○ the deliverables of that subproject
○ training new subproject members
○ interfacing with other subprojects
○ interfacing with ambassadors
● Developing:
○ Documentation in En and other languages for the
subproject
○ An algorithm of work for the team members
25. Data Editors, Verifiers
● Large volumes of first-hand data need
educated verifiers before is released back to
the public
● For each 100 hours of data entry there
should be about 10 hours of data verification
● Data editor may be a temporary role for
educated data collectors
26. Data Collectors, Translators
● Data entry mostly on web forms and Google
Docs
● Translations into Romanian, French,
German, Spanish
27. Duties of all Volunteers
● Log al least 10 hours per each 2 weeks of
work for SMP
● Maintain a high standard of collaboration
and communication in English
28. Benefits of the Volunteer
● Training for the good habits of a real
workplace
● Early access to the projects products and
data
● Job Interview and Educational referrals
● Recognition inside the projects products
(see Nomina Anatomica) and inside the
project history
30. Ways to Help
● Translate En->Ro, En->Fr, En->De, En->Es
● Verify data integrity, translations, QA
● Missionaria: talk about this project
○ contact your professor
○ contact your classmates and friends in person or
cyberspace
○ become temporary ambassador to other institutions
● Do Biometric measurements
● Lead a team for a subproject
● Your ambassador has a more updated and
detailed list of all subprojects
31. Resources and Pointers
● Switchboard: http://sliced.ro
● Further info at the Ambassador for your
institution
