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This project proposes the digitisation of three collections of pathology slides held by the University of Leeds - The Matthew Stewart Collection, the Cancer Research Campaign Soft Tissues Sarcoma collection and early cases from the Pathology archive collection.

The aim of the project is to scan interesting cases from the early part of the 20th Century to provide a rich educational and research resource of diseases that is not available anywhere else. The slides contain valuable information about diseases that are rare or were common but are now not seen or are not seen at such advanced stages. They are currently stored in archives in the University and, without this project, would remain inaccessible and unused.

This project will enable three large collections of pathology slides of significant interest and value to be digitised and made available and accessible to students and researchers. It will bring together work from the MIDESS project with the Virtual Pathology programme to consider how best we can digitise, present and promote our collections in the future.

• Start date: 1 October 2008
• End date: 30 September 2009
• Funding programme: Digitisation programme
• JISC theme(s):Strategic themes
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Lead institution: University of Leeds

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