California National Primate Research Center

PROJECT SUMMARY The funding requested in this supplement application will provide the ability to rebuild the applications and websites that support the Nonhuman Primate Research Consortium with updated technologies and enhanced administrative functions. The existing NPRC applications were developed over 15-years ago on now outdated

technologies limiting the ability to enhance existing functionality and requiring a large amount of administrative overhead. The proposed improvements will allow for the standardization of administration functions such as the addition of users and user permissions and streamlined website management including the creation, editing and

deletion of new pages, news items, menus, journal articles, research citations, and publications. Automation will be implemented wherever possible for gathering and publishing news. The applications and sites will have an improved look and feel. These upgrades will also reduce the daily manual processes needed to maintain system

updates and monitor system availability. Additionally, the completion of this project will allow a migration of these systems away from an existing third-party vendor onto a more stable infrastructure, reducing hosting fees and allowing Tulane to build and maintain the environment at the same standards as other Tulane systems (i.e.,

monitoring, system patching, security scans, etc.) Finally, this funding will allow for the creation of an image curation system for pathology images in order to expand the library in the existing Primate Pathology Image Database. These overall efforts will ensure the nonhuman primate research community will have applications available on

a consistent basis to support the mission of the NPRC Consortium and allow for Tulane to respond to and resolve issues in a timelier manner.