FutureTDM at Creative Commons Global Summit
We were very pleased that our FutureTDM session proposal was accepted for the 2017 Creative Commons Global Summit.This years summit took place in April...
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...
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...
FutureTDM Symposium 2017
On 13th of June, we held our FutureTDM Symposium at the International Data Science Conference 2017, in Salzburg, Austria. The aim was to share...
Text and Data Mining Found in All Corners of Economy
Since the beginning of humanity, the development of novel technologies sometimes had a significant impact on the structure of society and on its distribution...
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...
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...
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...
ContentMine: A Practical Exploration of Mining the Scientific Literature
One of the clear results emerging from the recent FutureTDM Knowledge Cafe series is the low level of awareness among researchers about what text...
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....