Standardisation in the area of innovation and technological development, notably in the field of Text and Data Mining. Report from the Expert Group. European Commission (.pdf)

« Executive summary

Text and data mining (TDM) is an important technique for analysing and extracting new insights and knowledge from the exponentially increasing store of digital data (‘Big Data’). It is important to understand the extent to which the EU’s current legal framework encourages or obstructs this new form of research and to assess the scale of the economic issues at stake.
TDM is useful to researchers of all kinds, from historians to medical experts, and its methods are relevant to organisations throughout the public and private sectors (…)

When it comes to the deployment of TDM, there are worrying signs that European researchers may be falling behind, especially with regard to researchers in the United States (…)

In Europe, there are signs of a response among publishers to encourage wider use of TDM. Scientific publishers have recently proposed licensing terms designed to make TDM of their own archives easier, but many researchers dismiss these efforts as insufficient, arguing that ‘the right to read is the right to mine’ and that effective research demands freedom to mine all public domain databases without restriction. These pressures from researchers have increased as a result of a growing move to ‘Open Access’ scientific publishing in Europe and elsewhere. The UK and Ireland have already committed themselves to more permissive copyright rules with regard to TDM (…) »

source > ec.europa.eu, 4 avril 2014

• Mots-clés : 
• Big data,
• Chercheur,
• Commission européenne,
• Compétitivité,
• Copyright,
• Data mining,
• Droit,
• Droit d'auteur,
• Etude,
• Innovation,
• Licence,
• Open Access,
• Text mining