Digital Histology Interest Group or DHIG

Hello all,

I can't think of a better opportunity and a better project for us to collaborate than the AAA innovation grant RFP and our discussion regarding a (inter)national repository for virtual slides!

To summarize our previous discussion:
1. A centralized repository for virtual slides was considered by many, a great idea for sharing resources and for expanding access to a wide variety of slides.  Number of DHIG members expressed interest in contributing virtual slides and putting effort toward setting up a centralized repository.
2. It was suggested that all images in the repository should be freely available for anyone to use, but copyright would stay with the original owner/contributor.  Thus, all virtual slide data sets should be published under a creative commons license and a user agreement of the copyright before accessing the slides would be necessary.   
3. The repository should offer image data sets in a variety of format (.svs, .tiff, .jpg, .stl, etc...)
4. Management and maintenance of the repository were considered to be the main issue associated with this project.  AAA was identified as a suitable orgnization to take this role.  Innovation grant was identified as a great opportunity to pursue initial funding to support this project and to set up an infrastructure. 

Progress on this project thus far:
1. Haviva will set up a shared googld doc for DHIG members to contribute to the innovation grant proposal.  I can start filling in the sections as a starting point for other members to expand upon or revise.
2. Discussion on software, server, network, bandwidth, data management and maintenance should continue to take place on this thread so many options can be considered. 
- As an update, Bob Ogilvie is talking with MBFbioscience to see if they might provide a viable solution for server software- he should be able to report here what he finds out soon.  If any one here has other options we can look into for setting up a server software, database and knows of a good place with server/network/bandwidth infrastructure, please let us know.

Thank you!
Lisa

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Lisa Lee
Associate Professor
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora CO
303-724-7460
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Hi all,

I've created a google doc entitled 'Virtual_Slide_Innovation_Grant_2014'.  I've set it so that anyone using the link below can access it and edit it.   We can change the settings as we go along to limit editing to individuals who are doing the writing, but for now it is relatively open to get things started.  I left it to Lisa to take the first stab at filling in the sections.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15F6XV3G6KUfql6Vd_B_75-SF6GH7JOzn0YaF1bMZkeI/edit?usp=sharing

Haviva

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Haviva Goldman
Associate Professor
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia PA
215-991-8467
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-04-2014 11:15
From: Lisa Lee
Subject: Innovation Grant Proposal

Hello all,

I can't think of a better opportunity and a better project for us to collaborate than the AAA innovation grant RFP and our discussion regarding a (inter)national repository for virtual slides!

To summarize our previous discussion:
1. A centralized repository for virtual slides was considered by many, a great idea for sharing resources and for expanding access to a wide variety of slides.  Number of DHIG members expressed interest in contributing virtual slides and putting effort toward setting up a centralized repository.
2. It was suggested that all images in the repository should be freely available for anyone to use, but copyright would stay with the original owner/contributor.  Thus, all virtual slide data sets should be published under a creative commons license and a user agreement of the copyright before accessing the slides would be necessary.   
3. The repository should offer image data sets in a variety of format (.svs, .tiff, .jpg, .stl, etc...)
4. Management and maintenance of the repository were considered to be the main issue associated with this project.  AAA was identified as a suitable orgnization to take this role.  Innovation grant was identified as a great opportunity to pursue initial funding to support this project and to set up an infrastructure. 

Progress on this project thus far:
1. Haviva will set up a shared googld doc for DHIG members to contribute to the innovation grant proposal.  I can start filling in the sections as a starting point for other members to expand upon or revise.
2. Discussion on software, server, network, bandwidth, data management and maintenance should continue to take place on this thread so many options can be considered. 
- As an update, Bob Ogilvie is talking with MBFbioscience to see if they might provide a viable solution for server software- he should be able to report here what he finds out soon.  If any one here has other options we can look into for setting up a server software, database and knows of a good place with server/network/bandwidth infrastructure, please let us know.

Thank you!
Lisa

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Lisa Lee
Associate Professor
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora CO
303-724-7460
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Thank you, Haviva!  I was able to spend some time today to get a draft started.  It's not pretty, but we gotta start somewhere. 
Breifly, I've updated the outline with what's required by the Innovation Grants Program and provided skeletal description or key points to be addressed in each section.  I have also added some questions and rambling thoughts in parenthesis for us to consider. 
The last section of the proposal is where I need DHIG members interested in contributing to the grant proposal and the project itself (when and if it's funded) to add their own name and write out what s/he will contribute. 

Please expand and edit as necessary.  If there are any fundamental issues with the proposal, please point it out so we can correct them.  Thank you!

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Lisa Lee
Associate Professor
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora CO
303-724-7460
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-04-2014 13:09
From: Haviva Goldman
Subject: Innovation Grant Proposal

Hi all,

I've created a google doc entitled 'Virtual_Slide_Innovation_Grant_2014'.  I've set it so that anyone using the link below can access it and edit it.   We can change the settings as we go along to limit editing to individuals who are doing the writing, but for now it is relatively open to get things started.  I left it to Lisa to take the first stab at filling in the sections.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15F6XV3G6KUfql6Vd_B_75-SF6GH7JOzn0YaF1bMZkeI/edit?usp=sharing

Haviva

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Haviva Goldman
Associate Professor
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia PA
215-991-8467
-------------------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 08-04-2014 11:15
From: Lisa Lee
Subject: Innovation Grant Proposal

Hello all,

I can't think of a better opportunity and a better project for us to collaborate than the AAA innovation grant RFP and our discussion regarding a (inter)national repository for virtual slides!

To summarize our previous discussion:
1. A centralized repository for virtual slides was considered by many, a great idea for sharing resources and for expanding access to a wide variety of slides.  Number of DHIG members expressed interest in contributing virtual slides and putting effort toward setting up a centralized repository.
2. It was suggested that all images in the repository should be freely available for anyone to use, but copyright would stay with the original owner/contributor.  Thus, all virtual slide data sets should be published under a creative commons license and a user agreement of the copyright before accessing the slides would be necessary.   
3. The repository should offer image data sets in a variety of format (.svs, .tiff, .jpg, .stl, etc...)
4. Management and maintenance of the repository were considered to be the main issue associated with this project.  AAA was identified as a suitable orgnization to take this role.  Innovation grant was identified as a great opportunity to pursue initial funding to support this project and to set up an infrastructure. 

Progress on this project thus far:
1. Haviva will set up a shared googld doc for DHIG members to contribute to the innovation grant proposal.  I can start filling in the sections as a starting point for other members to expand upon or revise.
2. Discussion on software, server, network, bandwidth, data management and maintenance should continue to take place on this thread so many options can be considered. 
- As an update, Bob Ogilvie is talking with MBFbioscience to see if they might provide a viable solution for server software- he should be able to report here what he finds out soon.  If any one here has other options we can look into for setting up a server software, database and knows of a good place with server/network/bandwidth infrastructure, please let us know.

Thank you!
Lisa

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Lisa Lee
Associate Professor
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora CO
303-724-7460
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