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...
Frank Hellwig

iCLIC Data Mining and Data Sharing Workshop (Part 1)

Report 1: TDM exception, copyright reform process, temporary copying, reproduction rightThe iCLIC Data Mining and Data Sharing workshop took place on 23rd September 2016...
Marco Caspers

A right to read for machines? Part I: The introduction

We, as FutureTDM, we were happy to organise and moderate a panel discussion at the Annual Meeting 2016 of the Association for Information Science...
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...
Projekt: Polska Foundation

I was doing TDM before I knew what it’s called

Interview with Michał Mach, entrepreneur, trainer, consultant, co-owner at caltha.eu, president of advisory board at ePaństwo Foundation.FPP: What is TDM from the point of...

An open-access publisher perspective on Text and Data Mining

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

The FutureTDM Open Science Cafe at the Dutch Presidency Open Science...

Open Science is a key priority of the Dutch EU Presidency. The Netherlands is committed to open access to scientific publications and the best...
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...
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...
Jan Strycharz

Trend analysis, future applications and economics of TDM

Text and Data Mining (TDM) has a vital role to play to ensure that Big Data exerts an economic impact. Gleaning value from vast...