1. PASSION. INNOVATION. SOLUTIONS.
AlzPED: Leveraging Preclinical Data to Accelerate Translational Medicine
Connecting a Medical Publications Library to PubMed: Case Study of NIA’s Alzheimer’s Preclinical Trial Database (AlzPED)

2. 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)
WebFirst is a technology company that delivers open source web applications and custom mobile solutions to federal agencies and non-profit clients. Our clients include Jhpiego, the global health arm of Johns Hopkins University, USAID, and NIH, as you will be hearing momentarily. We have expertise in the full stack of software development, from front-end design to back-end systems integration.

3. 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Includes published and unpublished studies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
Does not include all the bells and whistles you see here.

4. 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

5. Get your users the information they need.
Your mission
Get your users the information they need.

6. Mission accomplished
We have thousands of databases!
Happy searching.

7. Your mission
Get your users the information they need, when they need it, efficiently.

8. Use Drupal and APIs to deliver the right content at the right time

9. 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

10. 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

11. Use Cases for Drupal Library Website Portals Topical microsites
Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Spaces
Mobile integration

12. 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

13. 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)
Mention LexisNexis, EBSCO as example APIs.

14. 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

15. Questions (301) 670-1690 info@WebFirst.com www.WebFirst.com
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