STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with US-based technology company InfoDesk to co-develop a federated drug pipeline intelligence solution for pharmaceutical and life science companies. Both companies will work together to develop a search and delivery tool that will increase productivity and improve the quality of results, securely inside or outside of a customer's firewall. Building on the sophisticated synonym index developed as part of the Universal Integrator project initiated by Elsevier in 2007, InfoDesk will apply their knowledge and experience to develop the new search tool. The first release is expected to be available in the second half of 2010.
A fast, federated search of multiple content sources - either proprietary or open access - will give users a single results set, thereby increasing productivity. Rich content drawn from a variety of sources will be filtered using InfoDesk's advanced custom taxonomy, which can be modified to meet end-user requirements. Elsevier's team of expert editors (MD and PhDs) will tag the data at ingestion (when it is first compiled) and continuously monitor as the sources are updated.
In addition, customer-defined taxonomy for specific user groups and individuals will further increase the relevance of results. InfoDesk's intelligent algorithms will rationalise data by contrasting and comparing results from multiple databases to ensure the reliability of the results.
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