Semantic technology and knowledge discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. The deal seeks to link research faculty from the universities utilising data from Elsevier’s Scopus database and the RAMSeS software environment developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Phase I of the project will include creating research profiles for over 5,000 faculty researchers from both institutions, while phase II will add the remaining 15 North Carolina institutions and their 10,000 faculty researchers. Once implemented it is projected to be the largest statewide research community of its kind. The web community created will have fully populated information on publications grant data and citations from over 15,000 researchers across all research disciplines.
The North Carolina community project, launched in February 2010, is expected to complete the first major milestone in mid-summer for the Beta release to the North Carolina faculty.
By tying in its repository with Scopus’ data and then overlaying it with Collexis’ semantic technology, the University of North Carolina expects to offer its scientists a better way to identify, monitor and leverage relevant research being conducted at the institution. This is projected to result in greater collaboration within and across disciplines.
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