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SUMMARY:WikiFactMine: Scientific Knowledge for Everyone - Dr. Peter Murray
 -Rust (Unilever Centre\, Dept. Of Chemistry\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20171005T121000Z
DTEND:20171005T130000Z
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CONTACT:Lorena Escudero
DESCRIPTION:Peter Murray-Rust\,\nContentMine [1] and University of Cambrid
 ge \n\nPublic funding of science and medicine generates 1 trillion dollars
  of public knowledge per year but most of this is inaccessible to most peo
 ple. Working with the Wikimedia Foundation we have developed tools for col
 lecting over 6 million of the world's open scientific articles and extract
 ing the facts from them into WikiFactMine (WFM) [2] . We use Wikidata [3] 
 which\, with over 40 million "items" from Wikipedia or world authorities\,
  is based on modern Open Web technology. WFM reads every new Open scientif
 ic article (starting with biomedicine) and indexes the terms against WikiF
 actMine. It thus becomes a "knowledge prosthetic" or "amanuensis" so that 
 everyone can immediately find the accumulated knowledge in Wikimedia resou
 rces.\n\nWe believe that with WikiFactMine the scientific literature becom
 es accessible to a wide range of people and machines. Data in articles can
  be automatically indexed on fulltext and diagrammatic content creating th
 e base for a new generation of scientific search engines. We have created 
 a wide range of "dictionaries" from Wikidata\, allowing multidisciplinary 
 search of articles (e.g. chemistry\, diseases\, drugs...) . WikiFactMine c
 an expand "find all chemicals produced by conifers" to 500 phytochemicals 
 and 2000 conifers and search for all of them.  "What viral diseases have b
 een reported in West Africa" might inform public health policies in a new 
 manner.\n\nThe talk will cover the technology (which anyone can use\; Cont
 entMine already has a 15-year old contributing) and the politics of academ
 ic publication where revenue is often generated by artificial scarcity. Ca
 n we find a better way? Everyone can participate in WikiFactMine.\n\nI tha
 nk Charles Matthews and Tom Arrow who created WikiFactMine.\n\n\n[1] http:
 //contentmine.org\n[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiFactMine
 \n[3] https://www.wikidata.org
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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