Web Innovations Adapted to Manage Wildlife Health Information: A Case Study with the NBII Wildlife D

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Web Innovations Adapted to Manage Wildlife Health
Information A Case Study with the NBII Wildlife
Disease Information Node

• Cris Marsh, MLS and F. Joshua Dein, VMD, MS
• Wildlife Disease Information Node
• National Biological Information Infrastructure

Nelson Institute for Environmental
Studies University of Wisconsin - Madison
USGS National Wildlife Health Center
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OutlineWhat are we going to talk about?

• Discuss WDIN motivations for exploring new web
  innovations (i.e. Web 2.0)
• Show WDIN tools and services that resulted from
  adopting these new technologies
• Discuss where WDIN wants to go from here and who
  wants to join us

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WDIN VisionTo be an online community, not just a
website
http//wildlifedisease.nbii.gov
Making it easier to connect, control, reuse,
update and port information
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WEB 2.0 New, fun tools connecting people to
content
The Web is learning new tricks
Gary Larsons Far Side
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WEB 2.0 Making information and data more
accessible

• Key Aspects of Web 2.0
• Uses the Web and all its connected devices to
  create a global platform of reusable services
  and data
• Makes data freely available for consumption and
  remixing
• Offers continuous and seamless data updates,
  often very rapidly
• Provides rich and interactive user interfaces
• Encourages user participation through
  architectural design

Dion Hinchcliffe Social Computing Magazine 02
April 2008
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WDIN Website - Database driven website
Web resource
Home grown CMS tool
New content on WDIN site
Enter data once, reuse and port anywhere
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RSS FeedsWDIN offers many
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RSS FeedsCan make a layer on a map
Takes the disease news feed and uses the
geographic component to make a map
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RSS FeedsOthers can use WDIN information

• HealthMap
• Take news from disparate media sources on human
  diseases and maps it
• Initiative of Harvard-MIT and the Children's
  Hospital Informatics Program in Boston
• Added WDIN GeoRSS feed to join human, domestic
  animal and wildlife disease news events into a
  comprehensive view
• http//www.healthmap.org

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RSS FeedsIncrease WDIN visibility

• Others can share our feeds
• Better than a hyperlink
• Increases our visibility

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WDIN WidgetIncrease WDIN visibility
Compatible with numerous platforms
iGoogleWindows VistaApple DashboardLive.comiP
honeOperablogsMySpace, etc.
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RSS FeedsFuture RSS applications
Add function so users can build their own RSS feed
Build RSS feed that can feed CDCs public health
information network with wildlife disease news
reports
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Wildlife Disease News DigestWDIN is blogging
Stories from the Digest with a geographic
location for a disease event are added to our
Global Disease Map
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Wildlife Disease News Digest A reuse of WDIN RSS
Feeds
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Looking to the futureWhat fun, useful tools are
on the horizon?
What kind of tools/service can we develop that
our users will find helpful?
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Develop a web service
Web Service Software Application
data queries
NBII Catalog DB
Creates a machine-to-machine interaction for data
querying
Search engines
Communicates with many kinds of applications
Mapping applications
RSS Feeds
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Hey, Here is an Idea! Create a My WDIN Web Page
Create and manage your own wildlife disease web
page
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Hey, Here is an Idea! Create a My WDIN Web Page
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Hey, Here is an Idea! Share and rating websites
Rate Resources Dig it or Bury it?
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Thank You For Your Attention!
Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Please
contact me - Cris Marsh 608.270.2459 cmarsh_at_usgs.
gov