The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced the launch of Build Challenge, the second phase of a contest designed to expand the discovery experience offered by Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge. The competition challenges the research community to develop innovative visualisation tools that illustrate the connections found in data, citations and research by using Web of Knowledge application programming interfaces (APIs).
Thomson Reuters will award up to $30,000 to the participant who 'builds' the best web-based or mobile visualisation tools that both meet the contest criteria and highlight the various data relationships among the content indexed with the Web of Science, the main citation database within the Web of Knowledge. Each solution must be demonstrated through the entry of a prototype or workable code and white paper. The Build Challenge will be open for submissions until July 25.
The programme development solutions will be based on the winning submissions from the initial phase of the competition, the Ideation Challenge. In this first part of the challenge series Thomson Reuters called upon the research community to develop concept papers on new and inventive ways for users to interact with the content and tools within the Web of Knowledge. The Ideation Challenge attracted over 830 solvers from around the world and received 177 submissions.
Thomson Reuters Sciencewatch.com has interviews with the three winning Ideation Challenge innovators featuring the details and ideas behind their inventive concepts. Thomson Reuters is partnering with crowdsourcing firm InnoCentive for the Ideation and Build Challenges.
