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Homepage (designs done in Figma and translated through React)
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Annotator Dashboard (access saved articles from research database to annotate + in-progress annotations)
Annotation portal (see and easily access all your past annotations to pick up where you left off)
Annotation editing page (create conditions and data filters based on relevant health conditions, medicinal practices, etc.)
Community portal to see and comment on others' annotations
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## Inspiration Being a student who wants to excel in reading academic journals, going into the healthcare field, and as well as wanting to write their own thesis for their research projects, I had a very difficult time learning medical terminology and scientific jargon. I had a hard time understanding the scientific jargon in research articles and it would take me hours to debug what every word meant. As a premedical student in quarantine I wish people were able to help me understand difficult scientific jargon as well as help me comprehend articles. I would spend hours trying to understand a research article which is why we created Project Lore.

What it does

With Project Lore, students, professors, researchers, and peers are able to annotate and discuss the latest research through annotated research articles. Students and professors are able to annotate research articles related to healthcare conditions. The data is organized by healthcare conditions, for example, if one looked up “Blood Clot” they would see an annotated summary of the condition as well as annotated research articles. Project Lore is a great way for medical students to study and build up their reading comprehension skills by annotating a scientific article and posting it. Interactions such as constructive criticism given by other students would help them improve on their comprehension skills. Having annotated research articles would be great to help high school students and college students jump start understanding how to read research articles and academic journals. This is also a great way for those with medical conditions to research and understand more about the latest treatments as well as information about the condition

How we built it

We built it using Django, Figma, and React

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges we ran into were moving the project from pycharm to github as well trying to complete our project to its fullest potential within the span of 36 hours.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Accomplishments that we’re proud of is being able to grind through the code as well as fix the bugs and finish the project

What we learned

We learned this was an incredibly difficult project to make. We wanted the information to be accessible to anyone as well as try to implement structure so that others will be able to interact with each other's annotations and summaries. Since our goal is to make our information as accurate as possible, we came to the conclusion that if other peers wanted to make edits on an owners post they could suggest comments that others will be able to see.

What's next for Project Lore

We hope to continue to expand the Project Lore database as well as make it a functioning website that healthcare professionals, students, and patients can use. We also want to be able to improve the accuracy of information. We want patients to be able to have information on their condition as well as make healthcare more accessible to those who do not have proper access to it.