University of Amsterdam

‘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...

A practical view on text data mining from ContentMine

We at ContentMine are a non-profit NGO from Cambridge UK, who are practitioners on the forefront of text data mining - the free and...
Donat Agosti

Copyright and the Use of Images as Biodiversity Data

We live in a visual world – but when TDM is discussed, images are rarely mentioned. This is astonishing for taxonomy, the science of...
ContentMine

TDM and ContentMine: Barriers and Enablers of TDM

What is ContentMine?ContentMine is a non-profit organisation founded by Dr Peter Murray-Rust, a chemist, molecular informatician and advocate for open science. Murray-Rust faced barriers...
Freyja van den Boom

OGP Global summit: ‘Mine The Government’

During the fourth OGP Global Summit 2016 conference held in December this year, FutureTDM together with Open Knowledge International was selected to hold a...
Maria Eskevich

TDM for Scientific Publications: Venues and Ideas

Text and data mining (TDM) lies at the intersection of research interests from different research communities: computational linguistics (CL), information retrieval (IR), artificial intelligence...
Marco Caspers

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....
Jan Strycharz

Betting on automated (big) data analytics pays off 10:1. Or, does...

It is believed that there is huge worth behind automated (big) data mining and analytics. Integrating many data sources with properly developed algorithms can...
OpenMinteD

Text and data mining in history

Joris van Eijnatten is professor of cultural history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He has a fascination for numbers that not many historians have....

An open-access publisher perspective on TDM

Interview with Frederick Fenter, Executive Editor (Frontiers Media SA) On 11 January 2017, one day before the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee began debating...