FacFinder: Search for Expertise in Academic Institutions*
Yi Fang, Luo Si, Aditya P. Mathur · 2008
Interdisciplinary collaboration and external funding opportunities have pushed academic institutions to take steps to advertise their most important organizational resource: faculty expertise. This paper presents FacFinder‐ a publicly accessible faculty expertise search and ranking system across multiple universities. The key components of FacFinder are exposed and discussed along with the underlying rationale and design decisions. Also presented are the results of experiments aimed at evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of FacFinder in its operational environment.