ABOUT

ContentMine is a non-profit organisation founded by Dr Peter Murray-Rust, a chemist, molecular informatician and advocate for open science. Murray-Rust faced barriers throughout his career in trying to apply his TDM technologies to the scientific literature. In 2014 the south African philanthropic funder Shuttleworth Foundation supported him with a two year fellowship to set up the ContentMine project, which initially sought to liberate 100 million ‘facts’, mostly named entities, from scientific literature. The project also ran TDM training workshops for researchers to promote the usefulness of TDM to researchers facing overwhelming levels of content, reaching around 300 researchers at over 20 workshops.
Talks by Murray‐Rust and the ContentMine team reached an estimated audience of 2000, promoting the concept of content mining (as a more inclusive term than TDM) and its utility across a wide variety of disciplines.