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Date: Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:30 AM<br>Subject: [C4C] FYI - Lisbon Council Briefing 'Mapping TDM in Academic & Research Communities in Europe'<br>To: <a href="mailto:c4c_list@n-square.eu">c4c_list@n-square.eu</a><br>
<br><br><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Dear C4C Signatories<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
We would like to inform you that the <a href="http://www.lisboncouncil.net/" target="_blank">Lisbon Council</a> has published a special briefing ‘mapping text and data mining in academic and research communities in Europe’ – see attached. More information <a href="http://www.lisboncouncil.net/publication/publication/109-mapping-text-and-data-mining-in-academic-and-research-communities-in-europe.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">In this special briefing, Associate Director <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=741189" target="_blank">Sergey Filippov</a> sets out to map the use of text and data mining in academic and research communities. Using a complex approach based on patent and bibliographical analysis, supplemented by extensive field interviews, he finds that European academics are falling behind their Asian and North American counterparts. The Special Briefing was launched at the OECD Expert Workshop for Knowledge-Based Capital in Paris.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The study’s key findings are – emphasis added:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:28.4pt;text-align:justify"><u></u><span>1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>Text and data mining is already an important tool for making sense of and finding value in data. The world of data is growing exponentially, offering new insights, better analytics and deeper understanding in a wealth of areas (including human health, analysis of traffic and migratory patterns, climate and environmental systems and more)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:28.4pt;text-align:justify"><u></u><span>2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>There has been a strong increase in recent years in the number of publications and patents referring to text and data mining around the world. This growth is driven mostly by US and Asia (China in particular). <b>US nationals are responsible for almost half of all publications and patents in the text and data mining field.</b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:28.4pt;text-align:justify">By contrast, <b>European universities and scholars lag behind</b> (see Table 2 and Table 7 on pages 9 and 10 for more). As new discoveries and advances so often build upon previous findings, this gap could widen even further.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:28.4pt;text-align:justify"><u></u><span>3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><b>Europe’s intellectual property regime – including copyright – may have worked well in an economy where knowledge was stored mostly in text on paper and analysed typically by scholars taking notes.</b> In the digital age, new technologies make analysis of large volumes of text and other media potentially routine. But this can only happen if researchers have clearly established rights to use the relevant techniques, supported by the necessary skills and experience. Interviews with researchers in Europe suggest that these conditions do not exist (...).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:28.4pt;text-align:justify"><u></u><span>4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u><b>Europe’s current weakness in this area could have long-lasting repercussions.</b> If specific text and data mining techniques are protected by patents granted overwhelmingly to third-country nationals, European researchers may face legal obstacles when trying to advance knowledge in this field.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:28.4pt;text-align:justify"><u></u><span>5)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>Europe’s academic community is aware of the growing role of data analytics and text and data mining. In a survey conducted for this special briefing, we found that many academics already use text and data mining at the basic level; and <b>many more are considering using it in the future as the process becomes simpler and the benefits more easily seen</b>.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:28.4pt;text-align:justify"><u></u><span>6)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>The research community itself is increasingly in favour of so-called “open access” to scientific publications, with an increasing volume of academic literature now published online to the reader free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In turn, many academic publishers acknowledge this growing demand; some are seeking to integrate open access into their existing business models.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:28.4pt;text-align:justify"><u></u><span>7)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>The use of text and data mining differs among disciplines. Scholars in computer science – where the techniques are most indigenous – use it the most. Scholars in social sciences (economics, management, international business, innovation studies, etc.) still use the methodology only sporadically.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Have a pleasant afternoon!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Best regards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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