On 4/19/2011 5:42 AM, Stereotactic wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am a moderator on a forum focusing on Oncology (Cancer Specialties).
> We are in the process of moving to Drupal 7 based web site.
>
> One of the key features that we are looking for is Oncology News.
> However, given the huge number of publications/blog posts/ Twitter
> Feeds, we are in a fix because the volume of information to be
> aggregated is huge.
>
> I am looking for :
>
> 1) Some solution to parse these feeds, categorize them automatically,
> analyze the context in the text of the feeds (usually abstracts
> delivered in the feeds), and extract tag clouds.

You can do this with a combination of Feeds or FeedAPI and some
auto-tagging modules, but you'll probably need some custom programming
as well.

http://drupal.org/project/feeds
http://drupal.org/project/feedapi

http://drupal.org/project/autocategorise
http://drupal.org/project/autotag
http://drupal.org/project/autotagging
http://drupal.org/project/extractor
http://drupal.org/project/tagging
http://drupal.org/project/yahoo_terms

> 2) These tags then may then be analyzed how they are linked to each other.
>
> 3) The most relevant paper (abstract/blog post) should then be able to
> bubble up to the top of the pile (and show as related posts).
>
> 4) We have implemented a system of rewarding the users with points so an
> element of human curation would be available to the most relevant posts
> in the proper category..essentially to rate the articles which have
> "bubbled up to the top". The idea is that the users avoid the huge
> volume of overload.

http://drupal.org/project/userpoints

> Is there any module in Drupal for this? (I dont have a programming
> background- I am an Oncologist by profession).
>
> Thanks in advance!

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