alzped: leveraging preclinical data to accelerate translational medicine connecting a medical...
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PASSION. INNOVATION. SOLUTIONS.
AlzPED: Leveraging Preclinical Data to
Accelerate Translational MedicineConnecting a Medical Publications Library to PubMed:
Case Study of NIA’s Alzheimer’s Preclinical Trial Database (AlzPED)
WebFirst – Areas of Expertise
Federal Agency & nonprofit clients Web Design and Information
Architecture Content Management Systems
– Drupal, WordPress– Portals, Collaboration, eStores
Social Media – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube
Mobile Technologies – Android / iOS– Data Collection
Accessibility/Section 508 Compliance
Informatics / Data Visualization Geographic Information Systems
(GIS)
About the AlzPED website
Purpose: Promote pre-clinical therapy development for AD Knowledge platform
– Information dissemination– Promote efficiency, transparency, reproducibility
Includes published and unpublished studies Built on Drupal
What is Drupal?
A Content Management Framework– Enables efficient development of websites
A vibrant community– Conferences– Contributed modules and themes
Enormous growth– Powers many of the top websites
Your mission
Get your users the information they need.
Mission accomplishedWe have thousands of databases!
Happy searching.
Your mission
Get your users the information they need,
when they need it, efficiently.
Use Drupal and APIs to deliver the right content at the right time
When and where do users need information?
AlzPED– Specialized knowledge platform– Collects data not available elsewhere– Integrates data from PubMed
Similar tasks within your library web sites– Searching– Browsing by Topic– Viewing a Detail Record
Drupal: an efficient use of resources
User resources (attention, persistence, time)– Is the information easy to find?– How many clicks?– Can they ask the right question?
Library resources (costs)– Development– Maintenance– Analytics
Use Cases for Drupal
Library Website Portals Topical microsites Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Spaces Mobile integration
Leveraging Data: How APIs help
For users: Provide context, ease of use– Present information from databases in related contexts– Make it easy to navigate between databases
For you: Save library resources– Maintain information in one place, use in many– Reduce development cost through reuse– Track asset usage
Use Cases for APIs
Supplement search results Show related content when browsing Improve data entry quality (validation) Retrieve documents Perform related transactions in other systems Apps (mobile and otherwise)
Data: Starting Points and Helpful Tools
Use Drupal and APIs to deliver the information your users need– When they need it– Efficiently
Get Started– Iterate on a minimum viable product
Questions
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