{"id":13,"date":"2011-07-25T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-07-25T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:08:00","slug":"finding-the-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2011\/07\/25\/finding-the-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on the <em>Index Data<\/em> blog, Sebastian Hammer nicely sums up the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexdata.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/what-if-its-about-people-stupid\"> value of finding the expert when it comes to information retrieval<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_medium_quote\">\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to find the Einsteins, the Darwins, the Freuds. Dig a little deeper, and you find the people, themselves giants, who stood on their shoulders. But what if you want to find the person or team who knows the MOST about a very specific type of protein, about building Firefox Plugins, or about adjusting the wheel bearings on a certain kind of vintage motorcycle? This seems to happen to me all the time when I am digging into something for work or play. If you get deep enough, looking for documents doesn&#8217;t sate your appetite, and you start to look for the masters of the domain &#8212; to see what they&#8217;re up to; to get into their heads, to ask them questions, or to hire them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on the Index Data blog, Sebastian Hammer nicely sums up the value of finding the expert when it comes to information retrieval: It&#8217;s easy to find the Einsteins, the Darwins, the Freuds. Dig a little deeper, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2011\/07\/25\/finding-the-expert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}