TDM Symposium - A Roundtable Discussion
Channel: Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge
Date: 2018-10-09

A roundtable discussion bringing together all the attendees and speakers at the Text and Data Mining Symposium in Cambridge on Wednesday 12 July. All speakers were asked to speak for 1 minute on what they feel the primary blockers to text and data mining take-up have been. Following this, the audience joined the discussion. 

Moderated by Dr Danny Kingsley (Head of Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge), and featuring speakers Kiera McNeice (Future TDM), John McNaught (National Centre for Text Mining), Yvonne Nobis (Moore Library), Georgina Cronin (Moore Library), Dr Ben Outhwaite (Genizah Project), Rosemary Dickin (PLOS), Peter Murray-Rust (ContentMine), Dr Charles Matthews (Wikimedian in Residence), Dr Alison O’Mara-Eves (UCL).
Please note - due to technical errors, the beginning of this roundtable had no sound, resulting in the loss of John McNaught, Dr Ben Outhwaite and Peter Murray-Rust's initial contributions. We apologise for the inconvenience.

You can find all speaker presentations on the Apollo repository here: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266221