vivo 2012: connecting researcher to information - and unlocking it!

Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it!

William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach william.gunn@mendeley.com

@mrgunn

Mendeley and Linked Open Data

Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from...

...backed by co-founders and former executives of:

Supported by:

“The state of knowledge of the human race is sitting in the scientists’ computers, and is currently not shared […] We need to get it unlocked so we can tackle those huge problems.”

Connecting Scholars in the Cloud

• Incompatible licenses prevent remixing and sharing necessary for new insights.

• Research is a social activity, but the tools and the data aren’t.

• Capture the latent info in their process!

...and aggregates research data in the cloud

Mendeley extracts research data…

Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent:

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University of Cambridge Stanford University

MIT Imperial College London

University of Oxford Harvard University

University of Michigan University College London

University of California at Berkeley Sao Paulo University

University of Edinburgh Cornell University

Princeton University RWTH Aachen

Columbia University Max Planck Society University of Cologne

Yale University University of Wisconsin

University of Florida

280 million documents from 2 million users

Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time

Activities are aggregated around rich profile data

JISC DURA Project

http://www.symplectic.co.uk/

Apps are being developed that mash up Mendeley data with:

Chemical compounds

Locations

Alzheimer’s research

Grant funding

Twitter streams

Get Started @ dev.mendeley.com

It’s Open!

http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/43bcbda2-30ef-486b-9c52-4378ede75c7d/

We’ll be publishing this data to the LOD cloud

http://code-research.eu/

http://swets.com/mendeley

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Select relation:

supports refutes complements uses same method ...

Result: A human-curated,

constantly evolving semantic article database

Linked Data #FTMFW

www.mendeley.com

william.gunn@mendeley.com