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Text and Data Mining: The Way Forward as Seen by the Library, Publisher and Researcher Communities

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About This Webinar

Text and Data Mining (TDM) facilitates the discovery, selection, structuring, and analysis of large numbers of documents/sets of data, enabling the visualization of results in new ways to support innovation and the development of new knowledge. In both academia and commercial contexts, TDM is increasingly recognized as a means to extract, re-use and leverage additional value from published information, by linking concepts, addressing specific questions, and creating efficiencies. But TDM in practice is not straightforward. TDM methodology and use are fast changing but are not yet matched by the development of enabling policies.

This webinar provides a review of where we are today with TDM, as seen from the perspective of the researcher, library, and licensing-publisher communities.  

Event Sessions

From the Chemistry of Data to the Data of Chemistry

Speaker

In my talk I will discuss the way in which the ideas of the Data Science, Web and Semantic Web, Open Science (to some extent the twin disciplines of Chemometrics and Cheminformatics) contribute to new methods and approaches to data driven chemistry. A key aspect of the discussion will be how to facilitate the improved acquisition and integration and analysis of chemical data in context from experiments and the literature. I will refer to the challenges and lesions learnt in the e-Science and Digital Economy in accessing and extracting data and information.

TDM-The Way Forward

Speaker

Audrey McCulloch

Chief Executive
Association of Learned Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP)

After being in existence for several years in other sectors, TDM for scholarly research is starting to gain traction. The UK has introduced an exception for TDM for research, but the publishers are still not seeing a rising demand. The EU Commission plans to produce draft legislation for an exception later this year, and in the US this comes under the fair use doctrine. But what is holding TDM back? Is it legislation? Is it access? Is it technical? This session will explore what legislation is in place, what effect it has had, what challenges still need to be solved and what solutions are already in place.

Library licensing approaches in text and data mining access for researchers at MIT

Speaker

Ellen Finnie

Head, Scholarly Communications & Collections Strategy
MIT

This talk will address the challenges and successes that the MIT libraries have experienced in providing enabling services that deliver TDM access to MIT researchers, including:
· emphasizing TDM in negotiating contracts for scholarly resources

· defining requirements for licenses for TDM access

· working with information providers to negotiate licenses that work for our researchers

· addressing challenges and retooling to address barriers to success

· offering educational guides and workshops

· managing current needs v. the long-term goal-- TDM as a reader’s right

Text and Data Mining: Library Opportunities and Challenges

Speaker

Michael Levine-Clark

Dean and Director of the University of Denver Libraries
University of Denver Libraries

As scholars engage with text and data mining (TDM), libraries have struggled to provide support for projects that are unpredictable and tremendously varied. While TDM can be considered a fair use, in many cases contracts need to be renegotiated and special data sets created by the vendor. The unique nature of TDM projects makes it difficult to plan for them, and often the library and scholar have to figure them out as they go along. This session will explore strategies for libraries to effectively manage TDM, often in partnership with other units on campus and will offer suggestions to improve the process for all.

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