Design Science has announced that it will lead a project aimed at enhancing search technology for science, technical and medical (STM) documents. Funded in part by the US National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library programme, it will begin with a workshop in April, bringing together researchers and managers of STM document collections from academia and industry. The goal is to facilitate searching for mathematical formulas and notation in scientific literature, in the same way as one can now do full-text keyword searches. Dr Robert Miner, director of new product development at Design Science, said: 'With better searching, researchers in one area have a much better chance of discovering connections with other seemingly unrelated fields. For example, one can imagine a heart researcher might find the same equations describing cardiac electrical signals turning up in the work of astronomers studying solar flares, where the problems have already been solved.
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