This project was originally conceived to make available the mass of information presented at lectures organised by the Glasgow University Veterinary Zoological Society, the World's largest student veterinary zoological society. To this end, the University dedicated the use of a workstation in their 40-strong computer centre, technical support staff, and full access to their powerful fibre-optic network. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons gave a grant of £2,650 towards the purchase of top-level scanning equipment and further upgrade of the workstation.
The project ran from February 97 to June 97 (just before my finals!), and consumed many megabytes of disc-space prior to compression. The web pages were originally coded using Microsoft's Notepad utility, which meant many hours of painstaking work!
I would like to thank the RCVS Charter Education Trust, and Dr Martin Sullivan and the Glasgow Veterinary Faculty Information Services Committee for their support of this project. The speakers generously donated their slides, text, and advice, and tolerated the occasional error when slides were replaced back-to-front in their carousels, and for that they have my eternal gratitude!
Hopefully, this won't be the end of the project; the project application to the RCVS alluded to a future for this work. There is a need, at least in the UK, for a single unified source of this sort of information freely available on the Internet, and I hope this project can form the basis of a future database of expert opinion and knowledge, not just in zoological medicine, but veterinary medicine as a whole.
Will Easson BVMS MRCVS, Project Principal