Standardisation in the area of innovation and technological development, notably in the field of Text and Data Mining. Report from the Expert Group. European Commission (.pdf) | LaLIST

Standardisation in the area of innovation and technological development, notably in the field of Text and Data Mining. Report from the Expert Group. European Commission (.pdf) | LaLIST

Text and data mining (TDM) is an important technique for analysing and extracting new insights and knowledge from the exponentially increasing store of digital data (‘Big Data’). It is important to understand the extent to which the EU’s current legal framework encourages or obstructs this new form of research and to assess the scale of the economic issues at stake.
TDM is useful to researchers of all kinds, from historians to medical experts, and its methods are relevant to organisations throughout the public and private sectors (…)
When it comes to the deployment of TDM, there are worrying signs that European researchers may be falling behind, especially with regard to researchers in the United States (…)

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