VIP Review: ‘Discovery’ spin for bibliographic dat
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By Joanna Ptolomey

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One of part of my job as an information analyst is to find ‘people centric’ intelligence. There is always a thirst for the knowledge such as: who the experts are in a particular industry sector, where are they working, who are they working with and economically where are the clusters and how can they be exploited?

There are probably two reasons why people centric information is of interest to you.

Firstly, you work in a specific industry and want to create a map of experts within your sector. You may wish to join forces for investment, funding, create centres of excellence or clusters of expertise with complimentary suppliers. As an organisation, you may wish to make the best use of the experts at your disposal and ‘join the dots’ internally.

Secondly, you are a consultancy or business who wishes to collect evidence or a snapshot of the trends, players, movers and shakers, clusters and possible business development opportunities in a sector.

‘People centric’ knowledge can be difficult to find and clumsy to manage; a tidy collection process is elusive. There are many excellent sources of information with great content, but if you are interested into a particular industry sector it can be a long journey with many different avenues. It can also be expensive.

I said that there could be two possible groups of people would want this ‘people centric intelligence’ – but what if they could both get this from the same place and it would be free?

BiomedExperts.com may be the answer for the biomedical sciences field. It is an online community application pre-populated with great bibliographic content from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) PubMed and Medline databases – generally regarded as the crème de la crème of biomedical content.

Great content is one thing. What makes BiomedExperts.com different is how it uses this bibliographic content. The content is used to create communities in two ways. If you are an author listed, you can create communities and connect with others. For researchers, it can help you identify and manage experts in your area of interest.

You need a shift in mindset with BiomedExperts.com. There are no reporting processes, packaging content neatly together as we see in the more traditional use of bibliographic content. This is not a negative comment, it is just different. What you get is a picture, a visualisation, of connections highlighting trends in people, geography, groups and opportunities. You get a ‘return on the connections’ from BiomedExperts.com.

BiomedExperts.com is niche product with mass appeal. So although the bibliographic content may be familiar, it has quite a different feel and spin and gives so much more than the name suggests.

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