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January 25 , 2007

The Next Generation Web at the School of Medicine

Meeting Summary

The Virtual School of Medicine
Data-driven Web Applications Update
Introduction to Web 2.0
SOM Web 2.0

See full Slide Presentation (pdf) for details.

The Virtual School of Medicine

The School’s Public Website is the primary medium for us to interact with a broad internal & external audience and plays a role in all of the School’s major activities. It is a massive piece of infrastructure and intellectual capital that includes:

• 400 independent, connected websites
• Integration with many information technology systems
• Constantly active and evolving front and back ends
• significant resource expenditures by all departments
• 400 trained web-authors
• Broad participation from Dean’s Office units
• Constant effort from multiple groups in IRTfor website to thrive, including Web & New Media Services, Data Center, Networking, Security and Privacy, and Systems Engineering & Architecture

The school's Web environment receives 106,500 daily page views and 25,600 daily unique visitors. Homepage views have doubled since 2004. Seventy-five percent of traffic comes from Noth America, 44% of that from California and 20% from Stanford. A huge spike in traffic was seen with the the back-to-back announcements of the 2006 Nobl Prizes. See slide presentation for more stastitics.

Data-driven Web Applications Update

Clinical Trials Directory - Comprehensive, searchable listing of all clinical trials at Stanford; integrated with Clinical Trials.gov

Survey Engine - Self-serve survey creation tool for HIPAA-compliant data collection; used widely for public questionaires & quizzing

Med Seminars Calendar - Online listing of all academic seminars at the SOM with event entry delegated to departments and subscribable email list. Plans for v2.0 in the works

Pager Interface - Front-end application for the Stanford Smartpage system that provides a simple web interface for sending text pages to SUMC clinical staff. Available to all departments, divisions and residency programs. Decentralized directory maintenance.

Community Academic Profiles - Web-based profile system for faculty and researchers with PI waiver that lists more than 55,000 medline publications; retrieves 200-500 new publications every two weeks. CAP Version 2.0 underway; will include structured searches and faculty clustering by scientific topic, and reports of current research focus areas, among other features.

Good participation by faculty:

• Assistant Professors: 93%
• Associate Professors: 93%
• Emeritus (Active): 84%
• Professors: 95%
• Clinical: 50%

Web 2.0 - What is it and what does it mean for the School of Medicine

Web 2.0 listed first on Gartner’s HypeCycle of emerging technologies. Rated as the new technology most likely to have a transformative impact on business in the next 5-10 years. Health care and academic institutions can find significant benefits. The SOM must continually evolve its strategy and infrastructure to make full use of emerging technologies.

• Video - The Video Web is a reality as evidenced by success of YouTube, iTunes, Google Video. Video is already in use across school's Web site. Examples: Five Questions video interviews; NIS video newsletter
• Content Syndications - RSS feeds are a powerful means for "pushing" content out to users; widely used by news agencies. Many possible applications for the School of Medicine
• Blogs - Introduction of blogs have led to the democratization of the Web. There are 100,000 new blogs every day, 55% are actively used. The school has launched a number of blog projects.
• Other Web 2.0 aspects include Collaborative Authoring, Web Conferencing and Social Networking

SOM Web 2.0

School's homepage in the new design

The Web & New Media Services Group is in the process of redesigning the School's Web environment. For examples of the new look and feel, please see the sites for the Office of Medical Development and Andy Fire's Lab. Additional examples are available in the slide presentation.

Objectives include:

• Modernized look and feel
• Branding alignment & improved synergy with SHC
• Improved navigation
• Incorporate Web2.0 principles
• Provide easier-to-use template infrastructure for web-authors
• Bring all departments up to higher standard
  

Roll-out Plan

• Expected Launch in late March / early April
• All sites in current format will be converted to new designs (with a few exceptions)
• Manual conversion of top-level content. Approx 6000 pages
• Scripted “bulk-conversion” of departmental sites to format version 1.9 followed by rolling upgrades to 2.0 throughout next year
• Web publishing down-times will be kept as short as possible
  

 

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