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Week 1 Log
 This is what I did this week:
I arrived and met the Structural Informatics group. More importantly, I met Ann Li's program, which is to be my baby.
I read a bunch of articles, such as "The Digital Anatomist Structural Abstraction: a Scheme for the Spatial Description of Anatomical Entities" by Pamela J. Neal, Linda G. Shapiro and Cornelius Rosse. These articles defined the goal of the project, and more specifically detailed the Foundational Model of anatomy, which is an abstarction of the body of knoweledge of anatomy that explicitly declares the principles and concepts necessary for coherently and consistently modelling the knowledge domain. In other words, it explained the basic organization and characterization of anatomy to be used in the structuring of the database.
I also read some background things, like our lab's meetings' minutes for the past few months, and a query program in Prolog another student wrote.
I got to work figuring out how Ann's program does what it does, which is to set up a graphical user interface, or GUI. The program pops up a display, in which are three columns: subject, relation, and object. For subject or object, you can select an organ or "unknown." For relation, you can select something like "part of." With this, you can compose a query like "Unknown is part of esophagus." The program then takes the query and accesses the database for the appropriate terms that match the query, and displays it.
This involved much looking at Java documentation, since my previous Java experience didn't deal with applets or GUI's at all. I had to look elsewhere for documentation, but more of that next week.
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