Mendeley is a company that makes science more collaborative by connecting researchers through its academic networking and reference management tools. It aggregates research data from over 2 million users and 280 million documents in the cloud. Mendeley plans to publish this data to the Linked Open Data cloud to further unlock knowledge and insights by enabling connections between research information.

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

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

6. 280 million documents from 2 million users
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

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

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