27.10.2017
Open in order to…discover buried connections: Text and Data Mining
“By « open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
Text and data mining (TDM) is defined by the UK Intellectual Property Office as “the use of automated analytical techniques to analyse text and data for patterns, trends and other useful information”. In our penultimate post of International Open Access week we consider how TDM will benefit from full open access and look at some of the initiatives, services and tools in this exciting area. (…) »