TDM and the reading revolution
You will not catch Steven Claeyssens carrying a smartphone and he will always prefer a paper book to an e-reader. Yet he is the...
European TDM Projects: OpenMinTeD, an Overview
What is OpenMinTeD?OpenMinTeD stands for Open Mining INfrastructure for TExt and Data. It is an open, service oriented, e-Infrastructure for Text and Data Mining...
FutureTDM reports on APE 2017
A few weeks ago the FutureTDM poster travelled to Berlin to be shown during the APE conference organized by Academic Publishing in Europe (APE)Publishing...
CULT’s opinion on the TDM exception
On 6 February 2017, the Committee on Culture and Education (hereafter: CULT) published its draft opinion on the recently proposed directive on copyright in the Digital...
iCLIC Data Mining and Data Sharing Workshop (Part 2)
Report 2: Sui generis database right, functional vs. technical view, caveats of the Japanese TDM exception, integrationThis is the second of three blog...
‘TDM is Simply the Research Method of the Future!’: An Interview...
We are pleased to have Dr Lucie Guibault, Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) to be...
An open-access publisher perspective on TDM
Interview: Mappet Walker, Project Manager (Frontiers Media SA)On 11 January 2017, one day before the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee began debating the copyright...
Why a Copyright Exception Should Go Beyond TDM
It is a basic principle of copyright law that ideas are not protected. What copyright does protect is the original expression of those ideas....
Neighbouring Rights, Publishers, and a TDM Exception
Until now, the copyright reform process initiated by the European Commission had brought some hope for text and data mining (TDM) researchers, when it...
Techniques, Tools and Technologies for TDM
Data comes in a variety of forms i.e. text, audio, video, images, graphs, numbers, chemical compounds, likes, etc. and can be presented in a...
