Text and Data Mining (TDM)

The primary goal of our U.S. National Science Foundation EarthCube building block project, GeoDeepDive, is to facilitate the creation and augmentation of literature-derived databases and to leverage published knowledge and past investments in data acquisition. The project combines library science (the aggregation and curation of digital documents and bibliographic metadata), geoscience (the generation of research questions and labeling of terms in externally managed scientific ontologies), and computer science (the use of high-throughput computing infrastructure and machine reading systems to parse and extract data from millions of documents).

VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks. VOSviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.