Liberating medical illustrations in the public domain

=Background= To build an environment where modeling artist can easily get enough "knowledge" about the normal stereostructure of anatomical entity is critical to BodyParts. Such environment itself might be useful in education as well.

=Plan= To make the environment available to anoybody, we got to prepare this as follows.

1. Find reliable textbooks and atlases which is in the public domain. 2. Digitize the text and illustrations. 3. Index them properly with the standard nomenclature, for us FMA of Washington. 4. Upload the indexed materials in public domain cloud for the sustainability and involvement. 5. Use the environment as third party for BodyParts purpose or make links to wikipedia entity.

=Step 1: How to find materials= textbooks and atlases in the public domain is the key material. Mr.Funato of Keio-univ have collected suitable materials. He has been involving in making textbooks with many anatomical professors and know much old stories. Which book is good and which is secondary.

=Funato's choice= Mr.Kazuya Funato is a Japanses Lecturer of Anatomy, born 1967, famous among lay people on the net. He educate himself as an anatomist while assisting anatomy education in Keio med school for 20 years. Although he is not a M.D., he knows much better than ordinary M.D.s about the names and structures of human body parts because he spent 20 years in preparing materials and sources for education in medical school. He knows many the famous senior and retired Japanese anatomist in person, who are deeply influenced by German Anatomy that was the best at the time.

Until now, He has spent his off-duty time in digitizing illustrations, vocabularies, textbooks to make hyper-linked digital sources for education in Keio med school voluntarily. Moreover, he is willing to take risks to liberate as much as materials to the public within the legal system. Not violating the copyright. What he wishes to realize is very close to our goal.

His collection of rare books usually have signatures of Famous professors. They are used as a source books for publishing Japanese translations by them and numerous notes are left in the margins especially on the use of terms. He has interesting back stage stories for such publications too.  He knows about the lineage of books; which book is the sources for which book. He said that "many of good illustrations of current books are re-production of German illustrations of early days." WOW! As one of such books in roots of lineage, he rent me rare copies of the following books. (me: Kousaku Okubo, M.D. and Ph.D. Professor in National Institute of Genetics and Database center for life sciences. Japan)

Illustrated anatomy text in the public domain.

HANDATLAS DER ANATOMIE DES MENSCHEN VON WERNER SPALTEHOLTZ
/ VERLAG VON S>HIRZEL IN LEIPZIG 1933 The history of werner spalteholtz hand atlas of anatomy  Werner Spalteholz On eikipedia  There are versions of English translation from LippinCott. There are versions of re-creations of public domain books as well. Both German and English  One of the re-publication book says as shown in the picture.

Amazon serch yielded in these difirenet copies in re-print versions
 * Hand-atlas of human anatomy, by Werner Spalteholz ... edited and translated from the 3rd German edition by Lewellys F. Barker ... with a preface by Franklin P. Mall ... by Spalteholz, Werner, 1861-1940. Published 1903
 * Hand atlas of human anatomy, by Werner Spalteholz ... . Translated from the 4. German edition by Lewellys F. Barker ... . With a preface by Franklin P. Mall ... . Vol. I-[III].... by Spalteholz, Werner, 1861-1940. Published 1906
 * Hand-atlas of human anatomy, / by Werner Spalteholz ... edited and translated from the 7th German ed. by Lewellys F. Barker ... with a preface by Franklin P. Mall ...by Spalteholz, Werner, 1861-1940.Published 1923

All of them is noted as "Public Domain, Google-digitized"in Hathitrust medical librariy.. It means that In addition to the terms for works that are in the Public Domain or in the Public Domain in the United States above, the following statement applies: The digital images and OCR of this work were produced by Google, Inc. (indicated by a watermark on each page in the PageTurner). Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted, redistributed or used commercially. The images are provided for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.

BiblioBazaar: How a Company Produces 272,930 Books A Year By Andrew Albanese Publishers Weekly in line  Apr 15, 2010
 * Nabu press / BiblioBazaar / BiblioLife / BiblioLabs / British library

Q: Do we need to make our own photocopies of the pages?

 * Google-digitized pdf can be downloadable from HathiTrust digital library. But the site says "For members at HathiTrust partner institutions, logging in provides the ability to download full-PDFs of volumes that are in the public domain. " This suggests that google pdf can be used for our purpose but we do not know how to get.

ここにはＰＤＦファイルが１０ドルでＤＬ可能状態でおいてある. WOW!!! The above site listed scanned public domain books downloadable by 9.99$. They also sell hard-copy of them from amazon (which I have ordered). download button on some titles resulted in message "Sorry, we can't provide this edition to your country for copyright or other reasons."
 * General books LLC

Q: which should be the starting material for copying? Original Rare book or Re-print from publisher like NABU?
 * To begin with I purchased both10:10, 14 July 2011 (JST)
 * Hand-Atlas of Human Anatomy. Edited and Translated from the Seventh German Edition by Lewellys F. Barker. With a Preface by Franklin P. Mall. [Hardcover] Karl Werner (1861-1940). SPALTEHOLZ (Author) From amazon
 * Hand-Atlas of Human Anatomy anonymous publisher's reprint from amazon.

=General Question= When sources are hard-copy of a book in public domain, do scanning, photocopying, endow any right for the data to the person who did it? when they are exposed to the public of course. Actually, google request that their photocopies of PD books not to use for commercial purposes. IS this valid?

=Can A service like General Books LLC be a source for public domain illustrations?= In General Books LLC site, there are tens of thousands of scanned/OCRed datasets for books in the public domain. Each pdf is sold at $9.99. If I purchase one copy, can I disseminate it for free?
 * Searching in this site with "anatomy and atlas" have yielded hundreds of titles!!


 * Similar service is provided by OnRead.com
 * 野口先生によると日本でもデジタルコピーを作って、多少の誤りを修正しても　作業者には著作に関する権利は生まれないとのことでした（大久保）

I bought digital copies from GB

 * I bought copies of three titles from this sites to further look into it.
 * In the cover page, it says "there are no known copyright restriction in the United States on the use of this book".
 * It has this url below the notation above. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924024791646
 * The url was "internet archive " where all Cornel PDF seemed downloadable freely for anyone.!!!
 * InternetArchiveのOpensourceBookと全く同一のコピーでした

=Internet Archive Project Gutenberg & Open Source Books=
 * In the www.archive.org I found a category of books called "Open Source books"
 * It says they are open source nd donated! This is too good to be true!?
 * In this category are many new books which we can download!! ex http://www.archive.org/details/AnatomyAtAGlance
 * Can we modify this ??

internet archiveとは？

 * started as Waybackmachine
 * 日本語の解説は　情報管理　時実氏
 * term of use

Internet Archive でSpalteholzを探す
WERNER SPALTEHOLZ EXTRAORDINARY PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY AND CUSTODIAN OF THE ANATOMICAL MUSEUM AT LEIPZIG WITH THE ADVICE OF WILHELM HIS PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG. 'TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRD GERMAN EDITION' BY LEWELLYS F. BARKER PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. WITH A PREFACE BY FRANKLIN P. MALL PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY IN THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AT BALTIMORE. LEIPZIG S. H I R Z E L 1900. The illustrations, in all cases, have been faithfully drawn from original preparations, but at the same time no copy of a definite individual case, but always a composite from several sections has been made. As the basis for the technical terms, I have, throughout, made use of the new anatomical nomenclature, BNA, as unanimously adopted by the anatomical association at its IX. meeting in Basel on April 19, 1895 and published with introduction and explanations by W. His. If its reception is as favorable generally as it has been at the Johns Hopkins University it will soon become the standard aid to our students of practical anatomy. Franklin P. Mall.
 * 英訳版がいくつかあるがメタデータが十分でないので　よくわからない. English VolIとVolumeIIをダウンロードして調べると
 * Authors preface by Spelteholz
 * Translator's preface by Franklin P. Mall

fourth edition in English J.B.Lippincott 1923 とあります Barkerの3rd American Edition へのPreface@1913 がついています
 * 一方で米国レア本屋さんで手に入れた英語版のSpalteholzはvolI-IIIそろっており見開きには