Direct2Experts is 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.
To see Direct2Experts in action, visit http://direct2experts.org
VIVO uses two endpoints to provide Direct2Experts services:
Once your VIVO is in production, email your bootstrap endpoint URL to Griffin Weber (weber at hms dot harvard dot edu). In the email please include the main URL of your VIVO website, indicate you use VIVO, so you will be added to the Participants page.
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.