[support] River of news and contextual analysis

Stereotactic maillist at postinbox.com
Wed Apr 20 16:34:07 UTC 2011


Thanks a ton Guys!!! Can't thank you enough.

We are in the process of sifting through the content and facing unique 
issues; but it's not related to Drupal per se. I'd report the experience 
with this. Apologies for delayed reply; the professional commitments 
take a huge chunk of time.

Cheers!

On 04/20/2011 12:36 AM, Usamah M. Ali wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Ted <ted-drupalists at webfirst.com 
> <mailto:ted-drupalists at webfirst.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     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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>
>
> In addition to the great list of modules provided by Ted, you may want 
> to look at Tattler, a Drupal-built monitoring tool developed by Phase2 
> that allows a user to easily filter, organize and share content 
> gathered from the Web.
>
> http://tattlerapp.com/
>
> It's still in Beta, but I suppose it's pretty stable for production sites.
>
> Regards,
> Usamah
>
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