The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced the launch of its Ideation Challenge at the American Library Association (ALA) Mid Winter Meeting. Ideation Challenge is a contest for the scientific and scholarly research community, designed to expand the discovery experience offered by Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge.
The Web of Knowledge is an online, multifaceted research platform that provides a single point of access to premier multidisciplinary content alongside emerging trends, subject-specific content and research data. Resources available on the platform include objective content, citation analysis functionality, and bibliographic management tools, as well as access to full text documents in the sciences, social sciences and the art and humanities. The Ideation Challenge will award $10,000 to the selected individuals who develop innovative concept papers describing new ways users can interact with the content and tools in Web of Knowledge.
The Ideation Challenge is the first in a series of innovation challenges to be hosted by the Scientific & Scholarly Research group of Thomson Reuters. It is designed to raise awareness for relevant news and commentary, recognise excellence in research and encourage professional development. The first place winner will receive $6,000 USD. Second and third place winners will receive $3,000 USD and $1,000 USD, respectively.
There are 20 million users of the Web of Knowledge, ranging from students, information professionals, researchers and teaching faculty. Thomson Reuters is partnering with crowdsourcing leader InnoCentive for the Ideation Challenge.
The contest runs from January 24 to the weekend of February 24 and will be judged by a panel of technical and subject matter experts from within Thomson Reuters. After winners are announced, Thomson Reuters will launch the Build Challenge, where they will make Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge APIs available to participants who can develop programs that advance the practice of online scientific and scholarly research. This second, programmatic challenge will begin in April, with a whitepaper and code delivery expected.
