This event marks the official launch of the OpenMinTeD platfrorm (www.openminted.eu, services.openminted.eu) and we would like to invite you to join us for a live discussion on the way forward.  

Why it matters: We live in an era of exponential growth of information in the scientific digital world. To make sense of all this information encoded inside text and data and unlock the potential of turning information into knowledge, text and Data Mining (TDM) has emerged as powerful and valuable assistant.

What is it about: It is about unleashing the power of open access and open science. OpenMinTeD (a H2020 project) has paved the way for TDM in science by establishing a cloud-based TDM infrastructure for scientific literature. It has brought together publishers and repositories, TDM software providers, domain discipline researchers and the industrial world through the use of a collaborative platform that allows sharing and re-using of content, TDM services and cloud resources.

Who is it for? Whether you are a publisher or repository manager, a TDM software provider or developer, researcher, SME, company, funder or government employee, feel free to join and participate in this open discussion.

• Content Providers of Scientific/Scholarly Works: Publishers that want to maximize the impact of the publications, Library Managers that want to foster the TDM capabilities of their content, Repository Managers that want to share their content 

• Software Providers of TDM applications and tools: Developers, NLP researchers, and TDM enthusiasts that seek a platform to expose their work

• Researchers: Users of TDM applications, searching for new tools and applications to enhance their research, improve efficiency and research outcomes

• SMEs, Industry: Commercial organizations interested in using TDM to build new innovations, improve their R&D and achieve a competitive advantage  

Agenda

09:30 - 10:00 Registration, coffee

Policy meeting technology 

10:00 - 10:10 Introduction, Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE Managing Director

10:10 - 10:30 The EC perspective on Text and Data Mining and Open Science
Caroline Colin, European Commission, Copyright Unit, DG Connect
Jean-François Dechamp,European Commission, Research & Innovation, Unit A2 'Open Data Policy and Science Cloud', Policy Officer

10:30 - 11:00 Open Text and Data Mining: share, process, discover, the OpenMinTeD storyline.
Stelios Piperidis, Athena Research & Innovation Center

TDM for scientific literature in practice 

Moderator: Simone Sacchi, LIBER

11:00 - 11: 45 Unlocking scientific content: the publishers' perspective.
Frederick Fenter, Frontiers,
Elizabeth Crossick, RELX Group,
Stuart Taylor, Royal Society

Moderator: Petr Knoth, Open University

11:45 - 12:45 Knowledge Discovery - Mining Technologies success stories.

Horacio Saggion, TALN Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona,
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich,
Matt Shardlow, Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

12:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break

To TDM or not to TDM? 

Moderator: Maria Rehbinder, Aalto University, Finland

13:30 - 14:30 A discussion with legal experts.
Thomas Margoni, University of Glasgow,
Prodromos Tsiavos, Athena Research & Innovation Center 

Open discussion.

TDM 3 years from now  

Moderator: Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield

14:30 - 15:30  Panel discussion. Looking into the future: Text and Data Mining 3 years from now.
Panel Composition:
Alfonso Valencia, ELIXIR & Barcelona Supercomputing Center,
Laurence El Khouri, ISTEX & National Center for Scientific Research (DIST/CNRS),
Sophia Ananiadou, NaCTeM, National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester
Claire Nédellec, INRA, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, France