We are participlating in a weekend hack for #EUvsVirus - see https://euvsvirus.org
join the project and then our channel t_contentmine_ffr2axj4x.
This pandemic requires solutions cfrom almost every subject: maths, physics, chemistry , bioscience, materials, engineering, statistics, psychology, sociology, politics, economics, law, history, literature,, philosophy). Most "Covid" engines only have a small fraction - we aim to search the whole literature including the Global South.
Simple steps:
- select the soiurce you want to query
- download a few hundred articles in a minute or two.
- search and analyze them exhaustively on your own machine.
- display and publish the results
- A single point of contact for these repositories
- under your control
- extensible by creating your own search dictionaries
We'd like everyone to test the system. This helps us detect problems in platforms , in the sources, in the dictionaries and also give you an idea of what it can do. Then...
- Propose a question you'd like to answer. Create the query.
- Search (
getpapers) one or more sources. Propose others. - download a few hundred articles.
- search them with a few dictionaries. (
ami search). - display them and see whether there is a coherent message.
Some of you will write software but it's not essential. Here's some ideas for tasks:
- find a valuable source (repository) and explore how to search and download.
- create a dictionary relevant to your interests
- translate a dictionary into your language (Use Wikidata!)
- search and analyse a particular question
- find ways of displaying results
- documenting parts that you find unclear
- writing tutorials
This uses getpapers to search for "n955 AND mask" and analyze results:
see search
We had a question (anonymised) from a forensic scientis:
... to collect as many scientific articles as possible regarding the persistence of Covid-19 in different surfaces and materials that are commonly studied in a forensic setting, such as samples obtained form autopsies (skin, bones and body fluids), porous and non-porous surfaces and textiles.Let's see if we can help...We are trying to establish protocols in order to safely study these type of samples.
My colleague Dan who is making face visors (1000/week in Cambridge Makespace) asks "do masks and visors work"?
- effect of pandemic on mental health of health workers
the idea is to recommend patients alternative/supplementary treatments than those prescribed by doctors (pure clinical), but always based on scientific data (for example, any kind of psychological support depending on the problem, which kind of physical activity will be better depending on the comorbidities,..), so we could improve quality of life of patients.