emtacl 2012: connecting researchers to information - and unlocking it!
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Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it!
William GunnHead of Academic [email protected]
@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:
Install Mendeley Desktop
University of Cambridge Stanford University
MITImperial College London
University of OxfordHarvard University
University of Michigan University College London
University of California at BerkeleySao Paulo University
University of EdinburghCornell University
Princeton UniversityRWTH Aachen
Columbia UniversityMax Planck Society University of Cologne
Yale UniversityUniversity 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 researchGrant 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
http://swets.com/mendeley
Select relation:
supportsrefutescomplementsuses same method...
Result:A human-curated,
constantly evolving semantic article
database
Linked Data #FTMFW
