STM publisher Elsevier and Humboldt-Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer office of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, has announced the launch of the Humboldt Elsevier Advanced Data & Text (HEADT) Centre. The HEADT Centre brings together experts from Elsevier and researchers from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin to explore innovative ways to better serve the needs of researchers, practitioners and other members of the scientific community in order to reduce barriers to mining content and to identify research misconduct. The Centre seeks to enhance basic research in these fields.
Two projects will run under the umbrella of this cooperative venture of Humboldt-Innovation and Elsevier. The first project aims to provide scalable computing infrastructures and algorithms to improve computer-aided discovery, enhancing the efficiency of text and data mining (TDM). The project is led by Johann-Christoph Freytag, Professor for Databases and Information Systems at the Humboldt-Universität with support from Dr. Flavio Villanustre, Vice President of Technology Architecture and Product for LexisNexis and leads the High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) Systems at Elsevier. The second project will focus on research integrity issues such as plagiarism, image manipulation, data falsification and fabrication, which pose important problems for researchers, universities and publishers alike. This project is headed by Professor Michael Seadle, Director of the School and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities I at Humboldt-Universität. He is supported by Dr. IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Senior Vice President of Research Integrity at Elsevier.
TDM and research integrity are important research areas for both Humboldt-Universität and Elsevier.
To researchers, digital technologies open new ways of receiving and analysing scientific texts and data. At the same time, managing the ever-growing volume of scholarly content requires targeted TDM and introduces the challenge of mitigating the risks of research misconduct. So far, interdisciplinary research within these research areas is missing.
The two projects of the HEADT Centre will run over a three-year period and will be managed by Melanie Rügenhagen. The institute plans to launch additional research projects in collaboration with partners from the international science community.
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