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Implementing the Open Government Directive
Virtual Research
Environmentsat the NIH
Library
Disclaimer
• These slides represent the work and opinions of the presenter and do not constitute official positions of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).
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Introduction
The National Institutes of Health Library and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Office of Communications and Government Relations (OCGR) are collaborating on the creation of a
'Pandemic Influenza Digital Archives'.
This collaborative web site will showcase Dr. David Morens' core collection of several thousand scholarly publications spanning the 9th
century AD to the present on various aspects of all pandemics and large scale epidemics, especially the 1918 pandemic influenza. Using
the open source software Drupal, we are creating a world-class pandemic influenza digital archive, serving the needs of virologists and
researchers around the world.
About the NIH Library
This is accomplished by:•providing desktop/workbench access to relevant journals, books, reference sources, and database/Internet resources; •providing access to over 20 information professionals to assist with standard or more personalized services;•providing a quiet place to read, write, or study
The NIH Library, centrally located on the Bethesda campus in Building 10, serves the information needs of NIH and selected HHS agencies, through a comprehensive range of information resources, services, and knowledge.
About NIAID
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) conducts and supports basic and applied
research to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases. For more than 60 years, NIAID research has led to new
therapies, vaccines, diagnostic tests, and other technologies that have improved the health of millions of people in the United States and around the world.
About the Pandemic Flu Collection
• Collected by Dr. David Morens
• Focused on the epidemiology, etiology,
diagnosis and treatment
• Over 5,000 items collected – add’l 5,000 identified
• Include journal articles, statistical data, email correspondence, books and book chapters, bibliographies, reviews, abstracts, & newspapers
• Will be starting point for a comprehensive resource
http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/
Virtual Research Environments
• Virtual Research Environments• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programm
es/vre.aspx
• UPEI’s Islandora (Drupal over Fedora)• http://islandora.ca/
• Massachusetts General & Harvard-based Science Collaboration Framework• http://sciencecollaboration.org/
Moving Towards Drupal
• Purchased a server and Acquia support – Nov. 2008
• Hired Information Architect – March 2nd • Brought into PIDA project – April 3rd • Scheduled on-site Drupal install – May 13th
• First prototype shown – May 28th • NIAID committed to go with Drupal
• NIAID/NIH rescoping PIDA effort in light of new capabilities
Building the Digital Archive
• Build a database of records:– Search to build initial database– Match against physical collection– Enhance the database records
• Wrap additional services around this collection:– Create a Web site “home” for the archive– Provide collaboration tools– Partner with other organizations
Drupal modules using
• Biblio (scholarly publication management)
• Browscap/Mobile Tools (to provide handheld support)
• CCK/Views (to support event/meeting calendar, etc)
• Entrez (to import from PubMed to Biblio)
• Gmap (to support mapping)
• LDAP/Active Directory (integration with single sign-on)
• Taxonomy (to support ad hoc and structured term lists)
• Timeline (to dynamically plot by timeframe)
Future Plans
• Clustering results by location on a map or by date on a timeline
• Local, full text searching of all publications in collection
• MyLibrary functionality to mark records, save them into sets, and share those sets with others
• Multilingual search
