Transinsight’s GoPubMed.com, the semantic search engine for the life sciences, has been recognized with the 2009 red dot: best of the best award in the category communication design – graphical user interfaces and interactive tool. A total of 6,112 submissions were received from 42 countries. The jury selected 470 entries for the “red dot design award.” A group of only 56 submissions were selected as “the best of the best” and will be participating in the final round for the “grand prix award.” The Transinsight team is proud to receive this prestigious award.

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The current system we have in the social sciences is even worse. I think an international recognized and standardized system to reorder all academic material is a must for academics to begin to properly sift through all the literature that is available through academic databases.

I was dealing with an infinitesimally insignificant aspect of my academic cannon and still barely scartched the surface of the articles that had been written in the past few years. Secondly, using academic sifts to figure out what was important and what wasn’t also wasn’t useful as the relevant content didn’t always float to the top.

I actually think a kind of ‘digg’ system would be the easiest way. You’d have to register as an accredited academic and could digg certain meta tags that were relevant to the content or the entire article but also link back to what you were researching so that the right content could float up for the right researcher.

It’s a hard problem!