MeshDex– A Web Based Collaborative Discovery Environment

MeshDex是一种新的、创新的在线内容定位方式，它解决了当前搜索技术的局限性，其过程基本上被视为一种社交活动，而非个人活动。因此，MeshDex通过被动的众包方法，克服了任何特定主题或感兴趣领域不断增长的信息财富的问题，这种方法在全球范围内分担了用户在定位、审查和确定资源方面所花费的精力。本质上成为“一劳永逸”（FOFFA）系统。它的核心是一个基于网络的协作发现环境（CDE），通过它，用户可以定位和组织一个或多个感兴趣的领域的信息资源，无论它们是否出现在网络上。通过创新的基于云的索引/标记过程将所有资源连接起来，克服了术语和语言差异，用户可以发现或被提醒他人发现并注册到MeshDex的相关内容（甚至跨越主题，兴趣领域或语言边界）。通过其固有的协作能力，MeshDex将能够为许多种类和群体的网络用户带来好处，包括健康和医学等许多领域的研究人员和从业人员。

MeshDex is a new and innovative way of locating content online, which tackles limitations ofcurrent search technologies, by the process being treated as essentially a social rather thanindividual activity. As such MeshDex overcomes issues with the ever increasing wealth ofinformation for any given subject or area of interest via a passive crowd sourcing approachthat globally shares the effort spent by users in locating, reviewing and qualifying sources. Inessence becoming a “found once found for all” (FOFFA) system. At its heart is a web basedCollaborative Discovery Environment (CDE) through which users can locate and organisesources of information around one or more areas of interest whether they appear on the web ornot. With all sources being connected via an inventive cloud based indexing/tagging process,which overcomes terminology and language differences, users can discover or be alerted torelevant content found and registered into MeshDex by others (even across subject, area ofinterest or language boundaries). Through its inherent collaborative capabilities MeshDex willbe able to deliver benefits to many kinds and groups of web users, including researchers andpractitioners in many fields such as health and medicine.