Challenges of Creating the NCIs Web Site, Cancer.gov

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Challenges of Creating the NCIs Web Site,
Cancer.gov

• Gisele Sarosy, M.D., Daryl McGrath, Deb Price,
  and Michael Arluk
• Cancer Information Products Systems,
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institutes of Health
• Dept. of Health and Human Services

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The Challenge for Cancer.gov
Present a unified NCI Internet presence
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Solution, Part 1

• Integrate NCIs institutional, cancer
  information, and clinical trials web sites
• www.nci.nih.gov
• CancerNet
• cancerTrials

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Solution, Part 2

• Create commonalities that all institutional
  website owners will want to use.
• Look and feel
• Technical infrastructure
• Management processes

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Key Challenges

• Integrating a portal site, nci.nih.gov, with
  content sites, CancerNet and cancerTrials
• Working with multiple content owners
• Administering changes and improvements
• Searching across multiple sites

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Integration . . .
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Working with Multiple Owners . . .

• Create an Internet-accessible admin interface
• Provide accounts to content owners
• Owners control their own content
• Content owners need no programming skills
• All changes automatically proceed through the
  appropriate approval process
• Content changes do not affect page appearance

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Searching Across Sites . . .

• Main Search
• Searches all NCI web sites or a subset of sites
• Standards subsets include sites gathered within
  Cancer.gov portal areas
• Separate search form for large databases, e.g.,
  clinical trials
• Open standards-based architecture is not
  vendor-specific

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Searching Across Sites . . .

• Best Bets
• Editorially selected results
• Appear at head of search results list
• Keyword controlled, with synonym matching

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Cancer.govs Admin Interface

• Administering changes and improvements

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Cancer.gov

• Your guided tour begins here . . .
• http//cancer.gov/

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NCI Cancer.gov Contacts

• E-mail cancer.gov_staff_at_mail.nih.gov
• Phone [phone]
• Gisele Sarosy, MD, Acting Associate Director,
  CIPS(gsarosy_at_mail.nih.gov)
• Daryl McGrath, Marketing Specialist(dmcgrath_at_mail
  .nih.gov)
• Deb Price, Writer-Editor (priced_at_mail.nih.gov)
• Michael Arluk, Chief, Information Management
  Branch, CIPS(marluk_at_mail.nih.gov)