OpenMinteD

FutureTDM and OpenMinTeD organise TDM workshop for research libraries

Many university and national libraries are exploring the best way to support researchers with text and data mining.  That’s why on July 5th 2017,...
Hans Lammerant

The tension between TDM and data protection

The BYTE project researched the positive and negative societal impacts associated with big data. As part of this research it considered how big data...
STPI - NARLabs

Open Data and TDM in Taiwan

FutureTDM recently met with Taiwan based NARLabs, a non-profit institute combining a number of national laboratories working on key technologies. We talked about the...
Marco Caspers

Deliverable on Regulations and Policies on FutureTDM

In my earlier blog post, I announced that FutureTDM is mapping the legal barriers to TDM in Europe, for which we conducted a questionnaire...
Athena Research and Innovation Centre

TDM Data Holders and Aggregators

TDM data holders and aggregators: European infrastructures offering open access to their big collections of dataThe FutureTDM project recently published deliverable D4.1 (European Landscape...
Marco Caspers

FutureTDM’s policy recommendations are here!

While discussions at the EU on copyright reform and an exception for text and data mining (TDM) are very much live, FutureTDM, a Commission...
Freyja van den Boom

APE2017: Publishing Ethics, Doing the Right Thing – Doing Things Right

FutureTDM will be present at the Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) conference in Berlin. We look forward to presenting our FutureTDM consortium poster and...
Freyja van den Boom

OpenCon Conference 2016

Every year Opencon brings together leading students and early career academic professionals from across the world to discuss and learn about issues related to...
Marco Caspers

The Role of Anne Frank’s Diary and Academic Freedom for Text...

It is beyond dispute that Anne Frank’s diary is of great historical value. A recent Dutch court decision confirms this, in a case that...
Marco Caspers

Some observations of the French TDM exception

As of October 7, 2016, the law on a Digital Republic (“République Numérique”) introduced an exception for text and data mining (TDM) in the...