[open-science] Content Mining Workshop

[Ross Mounce]

Likewise I think the workshop/meeting is a splendid and timely idea.

I've already had a few inquiries about textmining from
*palaeontologists*(and why not?) after I talked about mining in a
recent conference talk in
North Carolina (one of whom is in Oxford actually, John Clarke might well
be interested in this, I've cc'd him into this message).

As John and I were only just discussing earlier today, the scope and
potential for mining techniques is massive and would be useful in so many
different fields. e.g. anyone wanting to do a systematic
(all-literature-encompassing) review on a broad topic

I'll definitely try and be there if I can. I can't do Feb 11th-15th though
(at another conference).

Best,

Ross

On 2 November 2012 20:32, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> I think this is a really good idea - I'd been thinking about suggesting it
> to OKF. People getting into this area spend a lot of time hacking about
> with substandard tools and ending up inefficient. I might be in UK end of
> Feb onwards and would certainly want to help.
>
> The vital need IMO is to list all the current tools and comment briefly on
> them. There are several levels (off the top of my head):
> * discovery - where is the content
> * scraping - getting it onto your machine (or relevant cloud)
> * extracting into "readable" form (e.g. PDF2Foo) - I am blogging about this
> * finding tables
> * searching for the bits you want (e.g. OSCAR for chemistry)
> * linking to known ontologies (e.g. PubChem)
> * fiinding somewhere to put the results
>
> and, of course we need to touch on legal aspects and other procedural
> matters.
>
> I can contribute chemistry (which although it may not be immediately
> relevant to everyone shows many of the aspects and most people know
> slightly what it is about - they have heard of molecules and chemical
> structures.
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Jenny Molloy <jcmcoppice12 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I've had a request from a grad student via the Oxford Open Science group
>> to run a hands-on workshop on data/content mining from the scientific
>> literature, which sounds like an excellent idea.
>>
>> ...
>>
>
>
>
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