Support Kit for TDM

topics December 12, 2017

Deliverable Code: D3.4

Version: 1.0 – Final

Dissemination level: Public

This deliverable is a continuation of deliverable 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 and contains a support kit for

TDM topics for the various OpenMinTeD stakeholders. It contains a set of materials, FAQs on

legal issues, briefing papers and a description of training activities. The intended use of

deliverable 3.1-3.3 was for the project partners to discover what the content of the Knowledge

Base (OMTD-KB) would be. The use of deliverable 3.4 has shifted more towards an overview of

‘building blocks’ that the partners can use for their own courses and tutorials in the OMTD-KB.

H2020-EINFRA-2014-2015 / H2020-EINFRA-2014-2

Topic: EINFRA-1-2014

Managing, preserving and computing with big research data

Research & Innovation action

Grant Agreement 654021

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Document Description

D3.4 Support Kit for TDM topics

WP3 – Support and Training

WP participating organizations: OU, LIBER, ARC, University of Manchester, UKP-TUDA, INRA, EMBL,

AgroKnow I.K.E., EPFL, BSC, USFD, GESIS, Frontiers, UoG

Contractual Delivery Date: 11/2017 Actual Delivery Date: 12/2017

Nature: Other Version: 1.0 (Final)

Public Deliverable

Preparation slip

Name Organization Date

From Martine Oudenhoven LIBER 29-11-2017

Edited by Nancy Pontika, Panagiotis

Zervas

OU, AK 30-11-2017

Reviewed by Andrea Zielinski, Sophie Aubin GESIS, INRA 11-12-2017

Approved by Androniki Pavlidou ARC 12-12-2017

For delivery Mike Hatzopoulos ARC 12-12-2017

Document change record

Issue Item Reason for Change Author Organization

V0.1 Previous

version

To be updated for D3.4 Martine

Oudenhoven

LIBER

V0.2 Draft version Initial version Martine

Oudenhoven

LIBER

V 0.3 Second draft After comments Nancy Pontika and

Panagiotis Zervas

Martine

Oudenhoven

LIBER

V1.0 Final version After comments reviewers Martine

Oudenhoven

LIBER

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Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................4

PROJECT BACKGROUND ...............................................................................................................................4

PROJECT GOAL ..........................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION TO WP3: “SUPPORT AND TRAINING” ........................................................................................4

2. DELIVERABLE CONTENT ...........................................................................................................................6

APPENDIX ......................................................................................................................................................8

OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................................................................8

0. BACKGROUND: TDM STORIES ...........................................................................................................................9

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION: RESOURCES TO INTRODUCE TDM .....................................................................................9

2. BARRIERS, LEGAL AND POLICY ASPECTS ............................................................................................................... 10

3. TDM CONCEPTS AND AREAS ............................................................................................................................ 10

4. HANDS-ON COURSES AND GUIDELINES ON TDM................................................................................................ 11

5. TDM TOOLS, SERVICES AND REPOSITORIES ....................................................................................................... 11

WORKING FOLDER: RESOURCES FOR USE CASE TUTORIALS .......................................................................................... 12

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Disclaimer

This document contains description of the OpenMinTeD project findings, work and products. Certain

parts of it might be under partner Intellectual Property Right (IPR) rules so, prior to using its content

please contact the consortium head for approval.

In case you believe that this document harms in any way IPR held by you as a person or as a

representative of an entity, please do notify us immediately.

The authors of this document have taken any available measure in order for its content to be accurate,

consistent and lawful. However, neither the project consortium as a whole nor the individual partners

that implicitly or explicitly participated in the creation and publication of this document hold any sort

of responsibility that might occur as a result of using its content.

This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The content of this

publication is the sole responsibility of the OpenMinTeD consortium and can in no way be taken to

reflect the views of the European Union.

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the Court of Justice and the Court of Auditors.

(http://europa.eu/)

OpenMinTeD is a project funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement No 654021).

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1. Introduction

Project Background

OpenMinTeD aspires to enable the creation of an infrastructure that fosters and facilitates the use of

text and data mining (TDM) technologies in the scientific publications world and beyond, for both

application domain users and text-mining experts.

OpenMinTeD will make existing mining tools and platforms easily findable, by providing a clear

overview of these services in a registry. The services will also be interoperable through a standards-

based interoperability layer. OpenMinTeD works with use cases from different scientific areas (life

sciences, agriculture, social sciences and scholarly communications).

The project brings together the different stakeholders, content providers and scientific communities,

text mining and infrastructure builders, legal experts, data and computing centers, industrial players

and SMEs.

Through its infrastructural foresight activities, OpenMinTeD’s vision is to make a virtuous cycle

operational, in which primary content is accessible through standardised programmatic interfaces and

access rules:

1. by well-documented and easily discoverable text mining services and workflows which process,

analyse and annotate text to

2. identify patterns and extract new meaningful actionable knowledge, which will be used for

3. structuring, indexing and searching content, and,

4. act as a new knowledge resource useful for drawing new relations between content items and

firing a new mining cycle.

Project Goal

The goal of the project is to establish an open and sustainable TDM platform and infrastructure where

researchers can collaboratively create, discover, share and re-use knowledge from a wide range of

text-based scientific related sources in a seamless way to advance research, promote interdisciplinary

open science, and ultimately support evidence based decision making.

Introduction to WP3: “Support and Training”

On the OpenMinTeD Knowledge Base (OMTD-KB), concrete technical and legal support will be

provided to researchers, content and service providers. Training material will be provided on text and

data mining in general, as well as on specific ways of using the services on the OpenMinteD platform.

OpenMinTeD also developed a ticketing system to answer questions about these topics one-on-one.

The Knowledge Base will be hosted on the currently existing online training platform of the FOSTER

Open Science training project, in which both the Open University and LIBER are project partners.

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WP3: “Support and Training” addresses the need for delivering supporting services to the various

stakeholders that will enable the adoption of the infrastructure and will empower its sustainability. The

services are twofold:

1. Services that aim to raise stakeholders’ technical skills on the platform.

2. Services that aim to support those stakeholders into the adoption of the infrastructure, at the

technical, organizational, legal access and operational level.

The support and training activities of OpenMinTeD will follow two phases:

Phase 1: Preparatory phase (January 2015 –July 2017): From the start of the project until the release

of the specifications, guidelines and the first platform release. Focused on preparatory activities.

Phase 2: Adoption phase (July 2017 – May 2018): From the release to the platform onwards. Focused

on the adoption of the OpenMinTeD infrastructure.

As part of Task 3.2. “Support services”, WP3 supported stakeholders through the creation of a

Knowledge Base and expertise directory on TDM issues. This Knowledge Base contains information on

technical issues around machine access to digital publications, and information about legal barriers to

TDM. This expertise directory is available on: https://github.com/openminted/omtd-publisher-

connector-harvester

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2. Deliverable content

In order to make the online Knowledge Base a successful platform for finding relevant information

about text and data mining, the OpenMinTeD partners have already been gathering information in an

earlier stage of the project. The content in the Knowledge Base consists of technical and legal guides

and resources about text and data mining in general, and will contain tutorials on how to use the tools

and services as listed on the OpenMinTeD platform. This deliverable (3.4) is a living folder that contains

the overview of the content for the Knowledge Base, and serves as a continuation of the deliverables

3.1, 3.2 and 3.3. A large bulk of resources has already been uploaded to the Knowledge Base and also

resources on interoperability have been added. The new version of the support kit, deliverable 3.4,

moves towards a more specific and categorized set of ‘building blocks’. Project partners, for example

the ones involved in the use cases, can use this set in the following ways:

▪ They can use the building blocks that are part of this support kit for their own tutorials and

courses that they are planning to develop during the last phase of the project.

▪ They can add resources to the kit themselves, for example if they know a good hands-on

courses on a certain topic, they can add it to the OMTD-KB or there.

▪ They can add a separate document to collect the resources for their own tutorial (the

‘Resources for introductory library course’ is the first document that follows this approach).

The support kit in this way serves as a living folder that can be used to develop more courses and

tutorials for the Knowledge Base.

So far, the folder contains an overview of:

1. The preparatory work done for deliverable 3.1-3.3, including:

▪ An overview of ideas for training topics related to text and data mining and events.

▪ The different materials that are or will be featured on the Knowledge Base.

▪ A set of links related to various TDM topics.

▪ A set of legal barriers to text and data mining, as identified by the FutureTDM project.

▪ A number of links to documents about legal issues surrounding text and data mining.

▪ Snapshots of the training calendar that is maintained on Redmine, including:

A set of links to informative blogposts related to the OpenMinTed use cases

A set of links to OpenMinTeD webinars

A set of links to the presentations delivered for the OpenMinTeD project

A set of short videos created for the OpenMinTeD project

A set of FAQs related to legal aspects of TDM and OpenMinTeD.

2. D3.4: a reorganized version of the folder D3.1-3.3 aimed at supporting the partners in developing

their own courses and tutorials. It includes the same resources as D3.1-3.3, but on top of that:

▪ A new categorization of the resources, aimed at better helping the partners

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▪ Short descriptions of the resources and how they can be used.

▪ The link of the resources in the Knowledge Base (OMTD-KB) or the upload status

▪ The final resources resulting from the FutureTDM project, including practitioner guidelines and

policy recommendations.

▪ Links to a set of short video-clips that explain different concepts and areas in TDM in 30

seconds.

The resources that have not been uploaded yet, will be uploaded to the Knowledge Base shortly.

Hands-on training material (tutorials, guidelines etc. for applying the use cases and using the

OpenMinTeD platform) will be developed in the final phase of the project. Every use case can use the

living folder for resources and inspiration, and has a working document where they can collect the

resources relevant for the tutorial to be developed.

The link to the Knowledge Base is: https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/

The dedicated link to the OpenMinTeD project is: https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/openminted

The link to the Google Drive folder is:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BweN4_o0UigpMzFhWmdIcURpMlk

Snapshots of the different parts of the folder are included in the Appendix to give an impression.

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Appendix

Overview

The overview of the support kit, deliverable 3.4. The different categories reflect different kinds/levels

of building blocks. The different use cases or partners who plan to make a separate course or tutorial,

can add a page to this folder and use it as their working space.

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0. Background: TDM stories

1. General introduction: resources to introduce TDM

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2. Barriers, legal and policy aspects

3. TDM concepts and areas

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4. Hands-on courses and guidelines on TDM

5. TDM tools, services and repositories

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Working folder: resources for use case tutorials