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The original Direct2Experts

http://direct2experts.org

March, 2013

Griffin has updated the 2011 direct2experts: http://direct2experts.org/IntegratedDemo

March, 2013
Dave Eichmann from the University of Iowa has also put up two experimental searches:
Tinkering with the Harvard demo recently announced got me to thinking about how we might go about evaluation of the various projects that are underway - and I remembered that Google a while back announced a custom search engine capability.  Sooo, I invite you to experiment with

 http://research.icts.uiowa.edu/polyglot/googleSearch.jsp

which interrogates one of three different configurations of Google CSEs.  The first two interrogate the query interfaces of the 50-some direct2experts sites, either targeting people or just taking what comes back.  The third covers the 61 CTSA sites linked off CTSACentral, plus CTSACentral itself.
 
This is intended solely as a strawman configuration to respond to "why not just use Google?"  There are queries where they are interestingly good and many where they are awful.  I leave it to you as a homework exercise to establish the characteristics of each.  ;-)  (For instance, we now can assert authoritatively that there are 7 CTSAs with BodPods.)

Please also note that this is using the free interface, so we're capped a 100 queries a day, and only 10 results per query, so I'm not letting you past the first page of results…
April 10, 2013

Dave Eichmann again:

The CTSAsearch prototype implementation of federated search is now available, using Linked Open Data published by members of the CTSA Consortium and other interested parties. To try it out, go to http://research.icts.uiowa.edu/polyglot


CTSAsearch currently indexes 41,367 persons and their 286,066 publications from Cornell, Florida, Iowa and Northwestern.  Indexed content includes
  • Persons and their associated properties (name, research statement, etc.)
  • Academic Articles for each person with associated properties. Where DOIs or PMIDs exist additional information is added from MEDLINE, including
    • Abstract
    • Keywords
    • MeSH terms
    • Chemicals
    • Genes 
We currently use pmid2doi data from from crossref.org and pmid2doi.org to crosswalk DOIs to PMIDs.
We harvest linked open data through SPARQL endpoints using queries based on the VIVO ontology. If you would like to participate, contact me with details on how to access your SPARQL endpoint.