Virtual Skeletons in Three Dimensions: The Digital Library as a Platform for Studying Web-Anatomical Form and Function

三维数字化硬件和软件的最新发展使扫描和存档复杂形状的物体（包括各种大小物种的一系列骨骼元素）成为可能，实用且经济，并将其存档为数字图书馆以供学习和研究。 广泛提供解剖材料，包括教育中常用的物种和稀有甚至濒危物种的元素，对研究和从小学到研究生院的教育具有深远的影响。该项目将开始创建这样一个图书馆，从黑猩猩和狒狒开始，使用低分辨率和高分辨率技术。 它还将设计和实施一个发现界面，为调查提供一个互动框架，使初级用户和高级用户都受益。 该项目以得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的工作为基础，包括《体质人类学和人类进化导论》课程和《体质人类学虚拟实验室》光盘。

Recent developments in three-dimensional digitizing hardware and software make it possible, practical, and economical to scan and archive complex-shaped objects, including a range of skeletal elements from a variety of large and small-sized species, into a digital library for study and research. Making anatomical materials, including elements from species commonly used in education and rare or even endangered species, widely available has far-reaching implications for research and for education from grade school through graduate school. This project will begin the creation of such a library, starting with chimpanzees and baboons and using both low and high resolution technologies. It will also design and implement a discovery interface that will provide an interactive framework for investigation that will benefit both beginning and advanced users. The project builds on work at the University of Texas, Austin including the course Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Human Evolution and the CD-ROM Virtual Laboratories for Physical Anthropology.