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presentation created by Leslie Yuan, Eric Meeks, and Ed Chen. Presented at 2012 UCCSC (UC Developers conference). Describes use of UCSF Profiles APIs by various departments to automatically mine data and decrease administrative burden.

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Clinical and Translational Science Institute / CTSI at the University of California, San Francisco Reducing the pain of updating faculty web pages (and more!) at UCSF Eric Meeks, Lead Architect, CTSI at UCSF Ed Chen, Lead Developer, Dept of Medicine, UCSF UCCSC 2012
What is UCSF Profiles? http://profiles.ucsf.edu Campus-wide software tool used to: Search for experts Promote networking and collaboration Automate collection of research data
Key Elements of UCSF Profiles Technical Users and Usage Based on open source software Launched in August 2010 developed at Harvard Includes 4300+ UCSF Faculty, Extended by UCSF as an Open research staff, post-docs, and Social container growing Populated automatically with Covers 100,000+ publications publicly available data (Campus Over 40% of profiles have been locator system, PubMed, NIH edited with photo, narrative or Reporter) other data Customizable by users 35,000+ visits per month
Has UCSF Profiles Helped Real People? Investigators, faculty, staff, students more easily find experts at UCSF. As reported by users, they have found: Potential book contributor Guest lecturers Potential mentors Web sites can be automatically updated with data reducing manual labor
Focus on: Sharing the Wealth of Data Integrate UCSF Profiles data with other major UCSF Department and Division websites. 700+ campus Sharing profiles UCSF Profiles updated automatically Data from UCSF Profiles
How UCSF Profiles Shares Data XML API Example: Dept of Medicine Consuming: Photo Demographic data Narrative Publications Updates nightly
How UCSF Profiles Shares Data, contd JSON API Example: UCSF mobile app Consuming: Photo Narrative Research Interests Publications Updates in real-time
How UCSF Profiles Shares Data, contd Drupal Module Currently in QA. Examples in progress: Dept of Neurology Dept of Anthropology, His tory and Social Medicine School of Pharmacy
Further Innovations & Uses of the Data Automated Division-wide publication list
Why use these APIs? Ease of integration Data quality Time and thus cost savings for faculty, staff and IT
Who uses these APIs at UCSF? UCSF Campus Directory Department / Division / Org websites Dept of Medicine Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital UCSF Medical Center UCSF Mobile App UCSF Faculty Advancement System
Efficiency and Accuracy Gained
Thanks! Check out http://profiles.ucsf.edu Questions? eric.meeks@ucsf.edu skp@medicine.ucsf.edu

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Reduce the pain of updating faculty web pages

  • 1. Clinical and Translational Science Institute / CTSI at the University of California, San Francisco Reducing the pain of updating faculty web pages (and more!) at UCSF Eric Meeks, Lead Architect, CTSI at UCSF Ed Chen, Lead Developer, Dept of Medicine, UCSF UCCSC 2012
  • 2. What is UCSF Profiles? http://profiles.ucsf.edu Campus-wide software tool used to: Search for experts Promote networking and collaboration Automate collection of research data
  • 3. Key Elements of UCSF Profiles Technical Users and Usage Based on open source software Launched in August 2010 developed at Harvard Includes 4300+ UCSF Faculty, Extended by UCSF as an Open research staff, post-docs, and Social container growing Populated automatically with Covers 100,000+ publications publicly available data (Campus Over 40% of profiles have been locator system, PubMed, NIH edited with photo, narrative or Reporter) other data Customizable by users 35,000+ visits per month
  • 4. Has UCSF Profiles Helped Real People? Investigators, faculty, staff, students more easily find experts at UCSF. As reported by users, they have found: Potential book contributor Guest lecturers Potential mentors Web sites can be automatically updated with data reducing manual labor
  • 5. Focus on: Sharing the Wealth of Data Integrate UCSF Profiles data with other major UCSF Department and Division websites. 700+ campus Sharing profiles UCSF Profiles updated automatically Data from UCSF Profiles
  • 6. How UCSF Profiles Shares Data XML API Example: Dept of Medicine Consuming: Photo Demographic data Narrative Publications Updates nightly
  • 7. How UCSF Profiles Shares Data, contd JSON API Example: UCSF mobile app Consuming: Photo Narrative Research Interests Publications Updates in real-time
  • 8. How UCSF Profiles Shares Data, contd Drupal Module Currently in QA. Examples in progress: Dept of Neurology Dept of Anthropology, His tory and Social Medicine School of Pharmacy
  • 9. Further Innovations & Uses of the Data Automated Division-wide publication list
  • 10. Why use these APIs? Ease of integration Data quality Time and thus cost savings for faculty, staff and IT
  • 11. Who uses these APIs at UCSF? UCSF Campus Directory Department / Division / Org websites Dept of Medicine Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital UCSF Medical Center UCSF Mobile App UCSF Faculty Advancement System
  • 13. Thanks! Check out http://profiles.ucsf.edu Questions? eric.meeks@ucsf.edu skp@medicine.ucsf.edu