The KMi submission authored by Petr Knoth, Vojtech Robotka and Zdenek Zdrahal entitled: ” Connecting Repositories in the Open Access Domain using Text Mining and Semantic Data” won the Best Poster/Demo Award at the International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011) which is this week taking place in Berlin, Germany. The…
The KMI team consisting of Petr Knoth, Lukas Zilka and Zdenek Zdrahal scored first in the NTCIR CrossLink competition in the manual assessment category in A2F P@5. The team placed consistently in the top three in other categories. Twelve international teams took part in the evaluation. NTCIR is a major forum (similar to TREC) of…
On Wednesday 23rd March 2011, the Eurogene project lead by Dr Zdenek Zdrahal was featured in the printed version of The Times in the article entitled “Gene genie’s treasure trove.” by Mark Frary. The article discusses, in an interview with Zdenek and Petr, the results and the mission of Eurogene to provide free multimedia learning…
The COnnecting REpositories (CORE) project has been officially started today by a kick-off meeting in the presence of representatives from JISC, OpenDOAR, UKOLN, OU Library and KMi. The CORE project aims to facilitate the access and navigation across relevant scientific papers stored in Open Access repositories. The project will create a new open metadata repository…
