Everyday, the research fraternity across the world is generating tons of information. There was $48B worth of academic research done in US labs alone last year, for example. Yet, no one has the time to read — let alone, digest — all this data. All that the researchers have in mind is a dream which is similar to the one described below.
Can I receive information that is relevant to me? A world without time-consuming screening, where I got the news – and all of the news – that I really care about? Why don’t I have this world today?
The patent dashboard technology platform aimed to resolve the above issue must be centered around 80% manpower (analysts), 20% technology (wiki+dashboard). First, it is the people whose contributions matter the most. So today if you look at many Wikipedia entries they have reviews by peers, who have edited the entry in some way. Assume that all the necessary background support documents necessary to carry out your research is edited by your own peers in your organization or your knowledge services vendors per se. So it is the collaborative model itself which is going to be self-correcting and will help in improving the overall quality and improve the relevance of information. The centralized patent dashboard platform encourages the research and legal professionals to collaborate beyond the geographic boundaries. For a perspective understanding, this very concept has been working for the open source software community. The collaboration empowers the users to add, delete, and move scientific and non scientific literature so that a structured taxonomy is established. Often, it is the taxonomy that is helpful in sifting through large volumes of information.
The second element is about technology. Today, especially in the Web 2.0 era, the user can simply make use of the slick drag and drop features inside a web browser to negotiate a very minimal learning curve. The Patent Dashboard technology platform has been built on the state of the art web 2.0 technologies that allow a user to create a customized dashboard right from the scratch. Users of this patent dashboard can fill the empty slate of this dashboard to make a repository of documents making up a structured taxonomy. Since this knowledge repository created out of the dashboard is located centrally, a simple URL can be shared amongst the potential users for collaboration purposes. There are a few data filters made available which enables the effective filtering of documents based on date, type of documents and the tag associated with each document. Further, users of the dashboard can rate a document to indicate the comparative importance for their peers. Users can even choose receive alerts on their mail box based on the preset preferences of choice.
Typically, this dashboard has found its use amongst the researchers, legal professionals, marketing professionals and other decision makers. So, it would only make sense to think of a plausible solution to information overload with the basic two dimensions i.e technology and people.
Source by Subramanian Manikandan B
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