Author Archives: pm286

II thouhj I thought that all major publishers had agreed to make papers on Zika available for free as a public service. But I was wrong. Elsevier are charging people. Admittedly I haven’t read this paper as I’d have to … Continue reading →

We’ve now built a version of ContentMine that we feel happy to promote for you to use. (There’s been no secret – all the code (http://https://github.com/ContentMine/ ) and most of the discussion has been public). But now we are actively … Continue reading →

Yesterday I spent a wonderful 2 hours with the publishing division of theRoyal_Society [1], the oldest and most influential scientific society in the world. The Royal Society supports research, helps formulate policy, works with public bodies… … and publishes science. … Continue reading →

I am excited and honoured to be invited to talk/present at http://www.openforum.be/ next week. I was going to talk about ContentMining anyway – the potential, the vision , the value to citizens, but the launch of Open Science Europe last … Continue reading →

  I listened and watched (as best as possible from 20000 km in AU)  the EU OpenScience meeting inspired by the Dutch presidency.  I didn’t get all the presentations, but I got enough from the opening session that I could … Continue reading →

Open Letter to EC Carlos @Moedas on Open Science and ContentMining (TDM) Dear Commissioner Moedas,   I am an academic at the University of Cambridge UK determined to see published scientific knowledge brought to citizens. I also run contentmine.org, a … Continue reading →

I have been silent on this blog for many months, not because I had nothing to say, but because ContentMine is saying it in software. In short, ContentMine is a new approach to extracting knowledge from the literature, but using … Continue reading →

I am on the board of a wonderful community voluntary organization – the Crystallography Open Database (COD) http://www.crystallography.net/ . For 10 years it has been collecting crystal structures from the literature and making them Open – more than 300,000. It’s the … Continue reading →

I have written to my members of The European Parliament to argue for reform of Copyright to allow Text and Data Mining (TDM, “ContentMining”) for commercial and non-commercial purposes. This issue has been very high-profile this year and Commissioner Oettinger … Continue reading →

I have had two very generous years of funding from the Shuttleworth Foundation to develop TheContentMine. Funding is in yearly chunks and each Fellow must reapply if s/he wants another year (up to 3). The mission is simple: change the … Continue reading →