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The PATSy project began in 1998 as a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh, University of York, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Queen Margaret University College in the UK. Two (consecutive) development projects were funded by the Nuffield Foundation (a UK charitable foundation). The first development project produced a multi-media collection of test and cases data from Speech and Language Disordered adults and children. The second project involved a collaboration between the University of York, University of Cambridge and the Astley Ainslie Rehabilitation Hospital (UK) which resulted in 3 further domains being added to the system - Dyslexia, Neuropsychology and Medical Rehabilitation.The system currently (Feb 2002) contains 61 cases and 556 tests, many with video and audio recordings included. New work in developing an Audiology domain is currently underway. PATSy is designed to be a raw data archive of case data from either research or demonstration cases and may include clinical and non-clinical participants. It is invaluble as aresource for storing rare case data as well as for illustrating typical cases. Specifically, PATSy is intended to be an archive that interfaces research with education and practise. Educators may 'personalise' PATSy content by submitting their own references, tutorial questions, and comments about any of the cases on the system. Researchers may also submit case data and multimedia material to support their reports of cases in journal publications (as a kind of online appendix). PATSy also provides a research tool for investigating student diagnotic reasoning. The ethos of the project is to provide a high quality, non-profit, co-operative, password-protected facility for communicating and sharing information among and between educators and researchers. Please read About PATSy and further information. In the UK, PATSy is supported by means of a subscription model. An annual subscription fee is paid by approved academic departments and teaching hospitals. Subscription revenue pays for programming to maintain the system, support, hardware and software updates and for subsidising workshop attendance. Workshops are held annually to introduce PATSy to new users or provide user training for specific functions such as data installation. The purpose of this Call is to invite expressions of interest from non-UK Universities that may be interested in becoming a PATSy mirror site to make PATSy available on web servers local to their local academic and health-related communities. Please e-mail Dr. Carmel Lum (carmel@patsy.ac.uk), PATSy project co-director with expressions of interest. PATSy's technical requirements:The PATSy website runs under the Linux operating system, using Apache server software, MySQL database software, and Perl CGI scripting - there is also a second streaming video machine which also has Linux and Apple's Darwin streaming quicktime server running on it . See http://www.patsy.ac.uk/acknowledge.html#Tech. Submission details:Interested parties are invited to write to the PATSy Project Directors indicating their interest in becoming a PATSy Mirror site. They are also asked to provide information on:
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