Andrew Walkingshaw

University of Cambridge

I’m a researcher in the Unilever Centre, part of the Chemical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, working on building systems and languages for the representation and mining of large volumes of chemical data. Before that, I worked in theoretical chemical physics, designing algorithms for the prediction of diffusion and chemical reactions by atomistic simulation.

I’m part of the MaterialsGrid project, within which my major research interest is the Golem ontology language/toolkit. I blog at Brighten the Corners.

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Sessions

9:45 Friday, 9 May 2008

Representing, indexing and mining scientific data using XML and RDF: Golem and CrystalEye

Open data Goldsmiths 2

Andrew Walkingshaw (University of Cambridge)

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We introduce our work on building tools to mine scientific literature. Using our Golem language/toolkit, we have inferred an ontology for, and extracted RDF metadata from, the tens of thousands of crystallographic datasets obtained automatically from journals as part of our CrystalEye repository. We then show some of the ways in which this enhances our ability to search and mine scientific data. Read more.