This document summarizes stakeholder consultations conducted by the FutureTDM project regarding barriers to text and data mining (TDM) in Europe. The consultations included knowledge cafes and expert interviews. Key challenges identified include the availability and format of data, lack of standard APIs, need for infrastructure, funding issues, skills gaps in education, legal clarity around copyright and data protection, and uncertainty around solutions. The project will focus on overcoming these barriers by examining best practices and making recommendations, with the goal of enabling collaboration around TDM given its complex nature.
OSFair2017 Workshop | Service provisioning for excellent sciencesOpen Science Fair
Daan Broeder presents the EUDAT community
Workshop title: Organising high-quality research data management services
Workshop abstract:
Open science needs high quality data management where researchers can create, use and share data according to well defined standards and practices. this is one of the pillars of Open Science. In the data management landscape we find quite a few organisations that aim at achieving this, however to get it right, a collaboration is called for where all can play a suitable role and present this in a consistent way to the researcher.
The proposed workshop brings together representatives of standard organisation (RDA), eInfrastructures (EUDAT) and Libraries (LIBER) that together can organise the high quality data management for research.
DAY 1 - PARALLEL SESSION 2
http://opensciencefair.eu/workshops/organising-high-quality-research-data-management-services
EDF2014: Allan Hanbury, Senior Researcher, Vienna University of Technology, A...European Data Forum
Selected Talk by Allan Hanbury, Senior Researcher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Conquering Data in Austria: a technology roadmap
OSFair2017 Workshop | Service provisioning for excellent sciencesOpen Science Fair
Daan Broeder presents the EUDAT community
Workshop title: Organising high-quality research data management services
Workshop abstract:
Open science needs high quality data management where researchers can create, use and share data according to well defined standards and practices. this is one of the pillars of Open Science. In the data management landscape we find quite a few organisations that aim at achieving this, however to get it right, a collaboration is called for where all can play a suitable role and present this in a consistent way to the researcher.
The proposed workshop brings together representatives of standard organisation (RDA), eInfrastructures (EUDAT) and Libraries (LIBER) that together can organise the high quality data management for research.
DAY 1 - PARALLEL SESSION 2
http://opensciencefair.eu/workshops/organising-high-quality-research-data-management-services
EDF2014: Allan Hanbury, Senior Researcher, Vienna University of Technology, A...European Data Forum
Selected Talk by Allan Hanbury, Senior Researcher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Conquering Data in Austria: a technology roadmap
OSFair2017 Workshop | Towards a Policy Framework for the European Open Scienc...Open Science Fair
Workshop title: Towards a Policy Framework for the European Open Science Cloud
Workshop abstract:
The workshop provides a hands on approach in relation both to the understanding of the EU open science policies and their application by related stakeholders. It will seek to explore, propose and test different aspects of policy documents created by and for different types of stakeholders (e.g. RPOs, funders, policy makers etc) in the context of EOSC. Drawing on the work by the EOSC policy work, the workshop invites participants to bring their own policies or work on model policies to develop a simple but comprehensive policy document tailored to their needs and conforming to the EU policy and legal framework.
It is useful to the broader Open Science community as it brings together services, stakeholders and policies and allows for a better understanding of the interaction between different constituencies.
DAY 2 - PARALLEL SESSION 3
EDF2014: Kush Wadhwa, Senior Partner, Trilateral Research & Consulting: Addre...European Data Forum
Selected Talk by Kush Wadhwa, Senior Partner, Trilateral Research & Consulting at the European Data Forum 2014, 20 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Addressing risks and opportunities engendered by big data: The BYTE project
EDF2014: Nikolaos Loutas, Manager at PwC Belgium, Business Models for Linked ...European Data Forum
Selected Talk by Nikolaos Loutas, Manager at PwC Belgium at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Business Models for Linked Government Data: What lies beneath?
The presentation summarises the findings from a recent paper on technology foresight by EU data protection authorities, based upon research conducted in PHAEDRA II, a project dedicated to supporting better collaboration between those authorities.
This presentation is about the LOD2 project (http://www.lod2.eu) and the Open Data Use Case of the project of the panel session at the Open Government Data Camp London on 18 November 2010 with Rufus Pollock (OKFN) and Richard Cyganiak (DERI) and Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company).
Big Data Europe SC6 WS 3: Where we are and are going for Big Data in OpenScie...BigData_Europe
Where we are and are going for Big Data in OpenScience
Keynote talk at the Big Data Europe SC6 Workshop on 11.9.2017 in Amsterdam co-located with SEMANTiCS2017: The perspective of European official statistics by Fernando Reis, Task-Force Big Data, European Commission (Eurostat).
OSFair2017 Workshop | Towards a Policy Framework for the European Open Scienc...Open Science Fair
Workshop title: Towards a Policy Framework for the European Open Science Cloud
Workshop abstract:
The workshop provides a hands on approach in relation both to the understanding of the EU open science policies and their application by related stakeholders. It will seek to explore, propose and test different aspects of policy documents created by and for different types of stakeholders (e.g. RPOs, funders, policy makers etc) in the context of EOSC. Drawing on the work by the EOSC policy work, the workshop invites participants to bring their own policies or work on model policies to develop a simple but comprehensive policy document tailored to their needs and conforming to the EU policy and legal framework.
It is useful to the broader Open Science community as it brings together services, stakeholders and policies and allows for a better understanding of the interaction between different constituencies.
DAY 2 - PARALLEL SESSION 3
EDF2014: Kush Wadhwa, Senior Partner, Trilateral Research & Consulting: Addre...European Data Forum
Selected Talk by Kush Wadhwa, Senior Partner, Trilateral Research & Consulting at the European Data Forum 2014, 20 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Addressing risks and opportunities engendered by big data: The BYTE project
EDF2014: Nikolaos Loutas, Manager at PwC Belgium, Business Models for Linked ...European Data Forum
Selected Talk by Nikolaos Loutas, Manager at PwC Belgium at the European Data Forum 2014, 19 March 2014 in Athens, Greece: Business Models for Linked Government Data: What lies beneath?
The presentation summarises the findings from a recent paper on technology foresight by EU data protection authorities, based upon research conducted in PHAEDRA II, a project dedicated to supporting better collaboration between those authorities.
This presentation is about the LOD2 project (http://www.lod2.eu) and the Open Data Use Case of the project of the panel session at the Open Government Data Camp London on 18 November 2010 with Rufus Pollock (OKFN) and Richard Cyganiak (DERI) and Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company).
Big Data Europe SC6 WS 3: Where we are and are going for Big Data in OpenScie...BigData_Europe
Where we are and are going for Big Data in OpenScience
Keynote talk at the Big Data Europe SC6 Workshop on 11.9.2017 in Amsterdam co-located with SEMANTiCS2017: The perspective of European official statistics by Fernando Reis, Task-Force Big Data, European Commission (Eurostat).
A general education presentation, created to teach employees of an organization about Phishing, what it is, how to recognize it, avoid becoming a phishing victim, how to recognize common social engineering techniques, and what to do if you think you have been phished.
Webinar - Reducing the Risk of a Cyber Attack on UtilitiesWPICPE
Jim Girouard, Sr. Product Development Manager at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, outlines the growing menace of cyber attacks on utility companies and how to educate yourself to reduce risk.
Libre Accès aux publications scientifiques : quelles incidences de la loi num...Calimaq S.I.Lex
Entrée en vigueur en octobre 2016, la loi "République numérique" va favoriser le Libre Accès (Open Access ) aux publications scientifiques, en garantissant aux chercheurs un droit à la mise en ligne gratuite de leurs productions. La présentation analyse les dispositions de la loi et essaye de répondre à ces questions : qui peut publier en Open Access ? Quels types de publication sont couvertes ? Quand les chercheurs pourront-ils déposer ? Où les publications pourront-elles être déposées ?
Students should be able to:
Understand the characteristics of this model and be able to use them to explain the behaviour of firms in this market structure
Explain and evaluate the differences in efficiency between perfect competition and monopoly
Explain and evaluate the potential costs and benefits of monopoly to both firms and consumers
What is Emotional Intelligence. How to develop your Emotional Intelligence.
Presentation made by Philippe Grall, Executive Coach & Trainer.
President of Equilibre Inc.
www.e-quilibre.jp
I offer insights from my conversations with close to a dozen information and knowledge managers on how we can make the most strategic contribution to text and data mining projects. Presented at SLA 2021.
Our FutureTDM workshop at the European Parliament focus at the development of TDM policy. With EU copyright reform now in progress, we bring together policy makers and stakeholder groups so that we can share FutureTDM’s findings and our first expert driven policy recommendations that can help increase EU TDM.
Alex Fenlon - University of Birmingham, Lisa Bird -
University of Birmingham
In this session we look at how Library Services at Birmingham responded to researchers wanting to leverage the UK’s copyright rules around text and data mining (TDM) for non-commercial research purposes. Our talk will cover our journey from initial engagement with researchers, to exploring infrastructure issues with IT colleagues, and encountering skills gaps as we look to develop new services and activities that meet the needs of those using TDM, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) or Big Data methodologies in teaching and research. Contributions from others just starting their journey or travelling a well-trodden path, are most welcome.
"Towards Value-Centric Big Data" e-SIDES Workshop - Slide-decke-SIDES.eu
This is the slide-deck of the workshop held at the BDV Meet-UP on June 27, 2019 in Riga, titled "Towards Value-Centric Big Data". It includes the presentations given by the speakers.
If You Tag it, Will They Come? Metadata Quality and Repository ManagementSarah Currier
Presentation to Metadata Perspectives 2009, a conference held in Vienna, Austria in November 2009.
When we build collections of scholarly works, learning materials, or other educational "stuff", we want people to be able to find it. This raises a number of problems, including ensuring that resources are tagged with adequate metadata. In 2004 a pioneering paper on this issue noted:
"At its best, “accurate, consistent, sufficient, and thus reliable” (Greenberg & Robertson, 2002) metadata is a powerful tool that enables the user to discover and retrieve relevant materials quickly and easily and to assess whether they may be suitable for reuse. At worst, poor quality metadata can mean that a resource is essentially invisible within the repository and remains unused." (Currier et al, 2004).
Have the five years since the above-quoted paper was published borne out its prediction: that simply expecting resource authors to create their own metadata at upload would lead to metadata of insufficient quality? Have repository managers been able to persuade funders that including professional metadata augmentation is worth the money? What has been the impact of recent Web developments allowing easier exposure, searching and sharing of resources? How is metadata being treated within the emerging domain of open educational resources? And what does all this mean for repository managers wanting to increase the discoverability of their resources, and to implement workflows for creation of good quality metadata?
Currier, S. et al (2004) Quality assurance for digital learning object repositories: issues for the metadata creation process, ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2004
http://repository.alt.ac.uk/616/1/ALT_J_Vol12_No1_2004_Quality%20assurance%20for%20digital%20.pdf
Greenberg, J. & Robertson, W. (2003) Semantic web construction: an inquiry of authors’ views on collaborative metadata generation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata for e-Communities 2002, 45–52.
http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/article/viewArticle/693
Simons orcid forum canberra 2018-PIDs in researchARDC
The value of persistent identifiers in research - Natasha Simons (ARDC) & Josh Brown (ORCID) - presented at the ORCID forum in Canberra 6th September 2018
These slides were presented at a BCE (Business and Community Engagement) event to show some of the issues raised from a previous workshop involving those external to further and higher education. The focus was on effective partnerships.
A presentation given on the Horizon 2020 open data pilot as part of a series of OpenAIRE webinars for Open Access week 2014 - http://www.fosteropenscience.eu/event/openaire-webinars-during-oa-week-2014
The Horizon 2020 Open Data Pilot - OpenAIRE webinar (Oct. 21 2014) by Sarah J...OpenAIRE
Sarah Jones (HATII, Digital Curation Center) will provide more information on the Open Research Data Pilot in H2020: who should participate and how to comply (in collaboration with FOSTER)
Date: Tuesday, October 21 2014
Sarah Porter, Head of Innovation, JISC - keynote presentation from JISC Research Integrity Conference - the importance of good data management, 13 September 2011.
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
🔍 Increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats.
🔍 Escalation of state-sponsored and criminally motivated cyber operations.
🔍 Active dark web exchanges of malicious tools and tactics.
Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.
What have we learned from talking with the TDM community?
1. OpenDataMonitor
Horizon 2020
Coordination and Support Action
GARRI-3-2014 Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Text and Data Mining (TDM)
Project number: 665940
Stakeholder Consultations
FutureTDM
Reducing Barriers and Increasing Uptake of Text and Data Mining for Research Environments
using a Collaborative Knowledge and Open Information Approach
FTDM workshop/Brussels
27 september 2016
2. What have we learned from talking with the TDM community?
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4. Involve: stakeholder consultations
The FutureTDM Knowledge Cafe's
‘an informal opportunity for stakeholders to find out about TDM, the FutureTDM
project and its goals and to provide the project with feedback.’
The expert and practitioners interviews
’ to find, challenge and/or provide evidence for what are considered to be
barriers for text and data mining (TDM) in Europe. ‘
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7. Challenges: Technical and infrastructure
Availability of TDM tools and services
TDM is getting better but the accuracy of tools must be high enough so that
scientists can rely on it.’
Access and data quality
‘It is a problem when data is not in a TDM friendly format.’
Lack of a standard API across all platforms makes TDM very time consuming for
lawful users to gain access in a quick and reliable way.
Infrastructure
‘ Ideally what you want is a web based modular system ‘
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8. Challenges: Economy and Incentives
Market (access)
Availability of TDM tools and services
‘Compared to the academic sector, the corporate sector is willing to pay for
solutions ‘
Funding
‘In chemistry and biology for example, research groups often do combined
applied and academic research. How much money from your project do you
want to dedicate to infrastructure?’
(non) Commercial
Need for examples :‘ Sell the concept better’
9. Challenges: Education and skill
Precondition
‘ Data has to be available and in a useful format because otherwise these
skills cannot be developed in the first place.”
Awareness
‘If we want to move towards a highly technological and sophisticated society
a lot more investment in education and research is needed in general.’
Knowledge and Skill gap
‘We are still getting skilled graduates but their skillset isn’t a very good
match with TDM’
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10. Challenges: Legal and Content
Legal clarity and awareness
Access/use We [researcher] would always prefer to use freely available over
data without license strings attached even if that data was of better quality’
Data Protection/Personal data
Copyright / Harmonization
Harmonization is a mixed blessing for companies because may introduce
additional barriers for using data from web sources.
On proposed solutions
‘Copyright exception presumes there is an issue around access to content.
Researchers who have lawful access to content are able to text mine with
publishers. ‘
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11. To conclude: considerations
● Uncertainty
● Not a ‘one fits all’ solution.
● Given its complexity: the benefits
of TDM would best be achieved
through collaboration
Next steps:
Focus of how to overcome the
identified barriers looking at best
practices and recommendations
in practice
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