How ContentMine at Cambridge will use CrossRef’s API to mine Science | ContentMine

"I’ve described how CrossRef works – now I’ll show how ContentMine will use it for daily mining. ContentMine sets out to mine the whole scientific literature “100 million facts”. Up till now we’ve been building the technical infrastructure, challenging for our rights, understanding the law, and ordering the kit. We’ve built and deployed a number of prototypes. But we are now ready to start indexing science in earnest. Since ContentMining has been vastly underused, and because publisher actions have often chilled researchers and libraries, we don’t know in detail what people want and how they would tackle it. We think there are many approaches – here are a few ..."