emtacl 2012: connecting researchers to information - and unlocking it!

Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it!

William GunnHead of Academic Outreachwilliam.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

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/

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Select relation:

supportsrefutescomplementsuses same method...

Result:A human-curated,

constantly evolving semantic article

database

Linked Data #FTMFW

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william.gunn@mendeley.com