This was the title of the workshop I organized at SIGIR 2008 in July. The main objective of the workshop was to bring people from different research communities together, to discuss recent advances in expertise retrieval, and to define a research roadmap for the next years.
I think (and I hope I’m not alone with this) that the workshop was a success, with many interesting papers and lively discussions. If you’re interested in expert finding but missed it, now is your chance to find out what themes were discussed; check out the workshop summary that was recently published in the December 2008 issue of SIGIR Forum.