Dog Days in the Data Mine

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"According to research quoted by the UK’s National Centre for Text Mining “fewer than 7.84% of scientific claims made in a full text article are reported in the abstract for that article”. This, they point out, makes cross-searching of articles using data mining and extraction techniques very important to science research. Fortunately the JISC organization which licences all journal article content from publishers on behalf of UK universities permits researchers to data mine these files, and no doubt this was agreed with the publishers within the license(?). But the question in my mind is this: who owns the product created by the data mining, and is this a new value which can be resold to someone else? ..."

Link:

http://www.davidworlock.com/2011/09/dog-days-in-the-data-mine/

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Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.data oa.mining oa.comment oa.copyright

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:40

Date published:

09/22/2011, 16:30