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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)

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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Includes published and unpublished studies Built on Drupal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

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