Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, recently announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected the company to develop an Advanced Expert Profiling System. The system will allow more than 8,000 NIH researchers to connect and share their expertise via a web interface. The agreement is an expansion of Collexis' existing relationship with NIH - under an earlier enterprise licence agreement, more than $20 billion in NIH grant funding is analysed using Collexis' software platform.
In a two-phase solution tailored specifically to the NIH community's needs, Collexis will compile expert profiles that will then be integrated with Medline, the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database. Medline holds references for more than 16 million journal publications in the life sciences. Collexis has designed a virtual knowledge directory for the NIH based on its proprietary next generation search technology. The customised directory will provide researchers with immediate access to expert knowledge; objective profiling of that knowledge; a quick and seamless means of locating NIH experts most relevant to the issue at hand; and complete profiles of those experts.
Other existing users of Collexis' knowledge discovery tool include the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins University; University of California, San Francisco; University of South Carolina; Erasmus University Library; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; WHO; Wellcome Trust; and the US Department of Defense.
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