CambridgeIP, with the University of Cambridge and Royal Society of Chemistry, has won significant funding to develop novel touch interfaces to CambridgeIP’s global scientific literature archive. The end goal is to enable more intuitive search and analysis across multiple devices for both specialist and non-specialist users of patent and scientific literature.
CambridgeIP’s collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the University of Cambridge is part funded by a Technology Strategy Board (TSB) grant funding competition “Technology-inspired innovation – ICT” in a project titled “Enabling big, complex data exploration on next generation devices”. The TSB will contribute over £250,000 to the project.
With over 1 billion smartphone users now performing traditionally pc-based activities on their phone, new techniques need to be used for big data analysis. Users increasingly seek to interrogate specialist technical literature around complex specialist subjects across a range of devices. Semantic data analysis and the latest advances in touch-screen and mobile interfaces will be deployed. Touch interfaces to the semantic elements will create an accessible search platform enabling high level analysis and exploration of highly complex, specialist data sectors. Interactive data analytics and visualisations will be created to help view patterns within the data.
Project results will be tested with end users from CambridgeIP’s and the Royal Society of Chemistry’s significant commercial networks, including over 17,000 registered users of CambridgeIP's online systems and all of UK academia via the National Chemical Database Service (run by the Royal Society of Chemistry).
Quentin Tannock (Chairman, CambridgeIP) said that “This project adds to CambridgeIP’s continuing innovation around search and analytics in specialist subject matter areas, such as pharmaceuticals, industrial chemistry and advanced materials. It will help enable users to find critical information more easily and enable new value added information services for R&D intensive industries”.
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About the University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry
The Cambridge University Chemistry Department consists of a large number of strong individual groups covering an extraordinary spectrum of science, centred on Chemistry, and ranging from Molecular Biology to Geophysics.
The Department consists of nearly 60 academic staff, 130 support staff, 280 postgraduate students and 200 postdoctoral research workers who are supported from central funds or by grants from Research Councils, the European Union, industry, charities or other sources. Many of the academic staff, have been awarded medals or prizes, and the department has six Fellows of the Royal Society active in research.
About the Royal Society of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry is the world’s leading chemistry community, advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. With over 49,000 members and a knowledge business that spans the globe, we are the UK’s professional body for chemical scientists; a not-for-profit organisation with 170 years of history and an international vision for the future. We promote, support and celebrate chemistry. We work to shape the future of the chemical sciences – for the benefit of science and humanity.
About The Technology Strategy Board
The Technology Strategy Board is the UK’s innovation agency. Its goal is to accelerate economic growth by stimulating and supporting business-led innovation. Sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Technology Strategy Board brings together business, research and the public sector, supporting and accelerating the development of innovative products and services to meet market needs, tackle major societal challenges and help build the future economy. For more information please visit www.innovateuk.org
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