Conference Call Looking at Information fron a New Perspevtive

摘要

Since the launch of the first scientific and scholarly jiurnals in 1665 (Jiurnal des Scavans and philosophical Transactions), the amount of scientific information has continuted to grow expinentially. It was estimated that 50 million scholarly articles had been published between 1665, when the Journal des Scavans was first published, and the close of 2009, when the annual article output was estimated at 1504600. How can these articles and the data they contain be mined to extract new information and advance scientific and scholarly resrarch? To answer this question, a group of resarch? To answer this question, a group of resrarchers, pbulishers, librarians, and technologists gaghered for the National Federation of Advanced Information Services' conference In Search of Answter: Unolocing New Value from content, held 24-26 February 2013 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The purpose was to thiglight examoles of hwo the application of technologies such as data mining, linking, analytics, and metrics can expose, enhance, and create new information and insignts form data already at hand.