Emerging Technology
Mashup (web application hybrid)
Product Technology Category
Portals
Description
Applications that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. There are many types of mashups including consumer mashups, data mashups (combination of information from multiples sources into a single representation), and business mashups (combination of data and services for collaborative use).
Customer Department/Agency
Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health
Program Requirements Addressed
Speed and enhance basic and clinical cancer research.
Success Metrics
- Research to Solution Duration
Results
At NIH, mashups were used to combine clinical research data into a map-like format to display demographics and regional trends of clinical results. Mashups were also used to combine research and archival database sources to define any dependencies of related proteins to specific cancer tissue samples of interest to the researcher.
Mapping to Federal Enterprise Architecture
TBD
Key Words
Portals; Content Management; Collaboration