1. Connecting researchers with information - and unlocking it!
William Gunn Head of Academic Outreach
william.gunn@mendeley.com
@mrgunn
Mendeley and Linked Open Data

2. Based in London & New York, Mendeley is researchers, graduates and software developers from...
...backed by co-founders and former executives of:
Supported by:

3. “The state of knowledge of the human race is sitting in the scientists’ computers, and is currently not shared […] We need to get it unlocked so we can tackle those huge problems.”

4. Connecting Scholars in the Cloud
•Incompatible licenses prevent remixing and sharing necessary for new insights.
•Research is a social activity, but the tools and the data aren’t.
•Capture the latent info in their process!

5. ...and aggregates research data in the cloud
Mendeley extracts research data…
Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent:
Install Mendeley Desktop

6. University of Cambridge
Stanford University
MIT
Imperial College London
University of Oxford
Harvard University
University of Michigan
University College London
University of California at Berkeley
Sao Paulo University
University of Edinburgh
Cornell University
Princeton University
RWTH Aachen
Columbia University Max Planck Society
University of Cologne
Yale University
University of Wisconsin
University of Florida
280 million documents from 2 million users

7. Aggregate data enables social discovery in real time

8. Activities are aggregated around rich profile data

9. JISC DURA Project
http://www.symplectic.co.uk/

11. Apps are being developed that mash up Mendeley data with:
Chemical compounds
Locations
Alzheimer’s research
Grant funding
Twitter streams
Get Started @ dev.mendeley.com

12. It’s Open!
http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/43bcbda2-30ef-486b-9c52-4378ede75c7d/

13. We’ll be publishing this data to the LOD cloud
http://code-research.eu/

14. http://swets.com/mendeley

15. http://swets.com/mendeley

16. Select relation:
supports
refutes
complements
uses same method
...
Result:
A human-curated, constantly evolving semantic article database
Linked Data #FTMFW

17. www.mendeley.com
william.gunn@mendeley.com