(English) The right to read is the right to mine – Copybuzz

"Open access’s battle to liberate academic texts has been going on for around two decades[...] However, the same cannot be said about an exciting extension to open access: text and and data mining (TDM). It’s a completely new field that has only become possible recently with the availability of large numbers of online texts and databases, and low-cost but powerful computers that can analyse their holdings. The basic idea of TDM is to reveal new facts and information by bringing together existing text and data, and finding patterns within them that are hard to spot using manual techniques. It’s rather like the difference between viewing a landscape from the ground, where individual details predominate, and looking down from a plane flying at high altitudes, where large-scale and otherwise elusive structures can emerge."