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Project title
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Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment
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Start date
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01 November 2004
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End date
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30 November 2006
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Lead institution
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University of Southampton
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Partner Institutions
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Project manager & contact details
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Dr Gary Wills
Direct Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2831
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865
e-mail: gbw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Project web URL
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www.core.ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Overall description
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Name of VRE solution/s
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Collaborative Orthopaedic Research Environment
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Description of VRE solution/s
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The project provides integrated computer support across the research and educational cycles, because these activities are intrinsically coupled as a part of the requirements of the surgeon's Continuing Professional Development. The CORE allows surgeons to: create technical material (including non research material for education), analyse data (from their own trials or data entered from journals), investigate hypotheses (from their own work or as meta or thematic reviews), discuss the finding from their or others work, and prepare and submit articles for review.
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Primary user group/s
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Clinically based orthopaedic surgeons
Musculoskeletal Laboratory based orthopaedic surgeons
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Functionality
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The aim of this project is to allow surgeon (specifically orthopaedic surgeons) to analyse data from their clinical trials and produce a report/paper. The following function are given:
- Purpose built (co-designed) user interface for collecting information relating to the operation undertaken.
- Allows the generation of templates to capture the data (also automatically generates the database tables) for other clinical trials.
- Allows the user to collate data from a repository.
- Helps the user select the appropriate statistical test and analyses the data.
- Provides a discussion forum and simple template for writing documents.
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Benefits
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The benefits to the clinical surgeons are that they can enter their case history as they would normally do each day and CORE will produce the documentation they would normally use. In addition the system allows them to collate and analyse these cases without have to re-enter the information into another environment. The project is currently being trialled in three hospitals (Southampton, Salisbury and Portsmouth).
For laboratory basic orthopaedics the benefits are they can use the Matlab models they normally use and have the facility to run large scale simulation from their desktop. This project is a demonstrator project and as such only shows the surgeons what is possible, yet the functionality it provides is robust.
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Current level of maturity
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The demonstrator is currently being trialled; we are expecting feedback, minor changes and bug fixes to take place.
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Target level of maturity at end of project
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The system will be realised with the current functionality working correctly and known bugs fixed.
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Design & technical implemnetation
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Technical implementation
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The web portal was created using a.Net framework, with some of the services being developed in .Net and some in Java.
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Architecture
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The web portal was created using a .Net framework, with some of the services be developed in .Net (Analysis and Dataset manager) and some in Java (grid simulation).
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Standards compliance
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Please list the standards with which the solution complies.
- HTML, http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
- XML, http://www.w3.org/XML/
- WSDL, http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
- SOAP, http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/
- OAI, http://www.openarchives.org/
OMII middleware implements a host of grid and web standards please refer to the OMII website www.omii.org
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Software availability
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- Source code: Not yet available but will be made available at the end of the project.
- Binary/installable code: Not yet available.
- WSDL www.core.ecs.soton.ac.uk
- Hosted WebService: There is a hosted website, using the web services, for the surgeon to trial. Due to the sensitivity of hosting patient data this is behind the hospital firewall and there is no public access.
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Documentation
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From the project's website the following reports and academic papers can be accessed. The report presents the system from different angles, from system design to user requirement. See web site at the end of the project as more will be added.
Documentation for the Web Services
Reports
- Wills, G. B., Gilbert, L., Sim, Y. W., Wang, C. and Carr, L. (2005) Virtual Research Environments: A Literature Review.Technical Report ECSTR-IAM05-001, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
- Sim, Y. W., Wang, C., Gilbert, L. and Wills, G. B. (2005) User Requirement Study for a Virtual Research Environment.Technical Report ECSTR-IAM05-003, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
- Wang, C., Sim, Y. W., Gilbert, L. and Wills, G. B. (2005) Integrating Service Oriented Architecture with a Virtual Research Environment.Technical Report ECSTR-IAM05-002, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
- Sim, Y. W., Wang, C., Gilbert, L. and Wills, G. B. (2005) An Overview of Service-Oriented Architecture.Technical Report ECSTR-IAM05-004, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
- Stenning, M., Grange, S., Sim, Y. W., Wang, C., Gilbert, L. and Wills, G. B. (2005) CORE User Requirement Study.Technical Report ECSTR-IAM05-007, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
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