Overview

Direct2Experts was a cross-site search capability for identifying expertise as expressed by research networking systems such as VIVO, PURE, and Harvard Profiles.  Every VIVO site version 1.10 and later has Direct2Experts capability built-in.

The Direct2Experts Endpoints

VIVO uses two endpoints to provide Direct2Experts services:

1. The bootstrap endpoint.  For VIVO,  this is /FS.xml.  A small XML file is returned describing your VIVO endpoint.  Your application name, set in application-settings.xml is returned by FS.xml
2. The aggregated query endpoint.  For VIVO, this is /ctsasearch.  

References

1. Weber GM, Barnett W, Conlon M, Eichmann D, Kibbe W, Falk-Krzesinski H, Halaas M, Johnson L, Meeks E, Mitchell D, Schleyer T, Stallings S, Warden M, Kahlon M; Direct2Experts Collaboration. Direct2Experts: a pilot national network to demonstrate interoperability among research-networking platforms. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Dec;18 Suppl 1:i157-60. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000200. Epub 2011 Oct 28.

2. Direct2Experts reference implementation on GFitHub. https://github.com/eichmann/direct2experts-reference-implementation
3. Code here:  https://github.com/OIT-ADS-Web/vivo/pull/62/files