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UCSF Profiles as a Web Platform for Integration and Collaboration
Eric Meeks, Leslie Yuan, MPH, Anirvan Chatterjee, Mini Kahlon, PhD
Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of California, San Francisco
Clinical and Translational Science Institute / CTSI Accelerating Research to Improve Health
Introduction Social networking sites such as Facebook,
Google+ and LinkedIn are more than just
web sites - they are web platforms. At UCSF
we recognize the value in making a research
networking site a web platform which can
support applications for collaboration. We
want to integrate our research networking
systems with collaboration tools so that the
same systems our researchers use to
discover experts can also be used to interact
and collaborate with experts.
Methods We integrated UCSF Profiles with
Apache Shindig to add OpenSocial
capabilities into our system, and built
numerous applications based on the
OpenSocial standard. We have made
our work open source and our code
has been adopted by Wake Forest
and Baylor, both of which are
contributing to our OpenSocial
application library. These extensions
will soon be a part of the Profiles
product and we are working with
VIVO to achieve the same ends.
Results As our application library grows, our adoption rate and pool of application developers
expands, resulting in a virtuous cycle . This accelerating growth of available applications
raises the value of adopting OpenSocial within an institution. We are also seeing
increasing sophistication within the applications in our library. The first wave consisted of
small two-tier applications centered around local data. This was followed by a second
wave of multi-tier applications which access external web APIs for data and services. With
our third wave of applications we plan to deliver cross institutional collaboration as a
seamless experience within our local research networking tools!
Discussion Tim O’Reilly coined the term “A
Platform Beats an Application Every
Time.” Social networking sites have
listened and research networking
tools need to listen as well. Modern
research often requires cross-
disciplinary teams which result in
members with disparate locations.
Online tools are an obvious solution
for this challenge. Our research
networking tools currently answer the
discovery component of team
formation. To answer the
collaboration component we should
make our tools platforms that
integrate with existing services. We
need the functionality of LinkedIn,
Google+ and Facebook while
continuing to own the data and online
research experience.
Recognition This project was supported by
NIH/NCRR UCSF-CTSI Grant
Number UL1 RR024131 and Harvard
Catalyst Grant Number 1 UL1
RR025758-01. Its contents are solely
the responsibility of the authors and
do not necessarily represent the
official views of the NIH.
We would like to thank Andy Bowline
of Wake Forest, Kevin Musgrave of
Baylor, MIT Libraries, the VIVO team,
the OpenSocial Foundation and the
Apache Software Foundation.
2010
Simple Local
Applications
2012 2013
Access to
External Services
Cross-Institutional
Online
Collaboration
Profiles and OpenSocial
HTML, Javascript,
OpenSocial Views
OAuth, SSL,
Security Token
Applications
The Platform
UI Security Data
2011
Participating
Institutions
Standards
and APIs JSON, REST, Activity,
Message, Person* * Researcher RDF
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