Introduction
We, a team welcome you all in the Project KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM LITERATURE. Here, we all will be reading and creating pages which will be accessible and will be a open source to all.
Dear Volunteer,
Thank you for joining the volunteer OpenVirus project, run jointly by NIPGR and ContentMine. The goal is to develop tools to find knowledge about viral epidemics (not just COVID-19) in the scientific literature. Hopefully some of this will be useful to citizens round the world including students, teachers, policymakers, companies, health care professionals...
You're joining us for a few weeks (4, 8, half a year). There's not much a single scientist can do in that time.
But there's a LOT that a team can do! So we're building a team - you all have special knowledge and experience and can all help. Writing, coding, checking, reading, editing, it's all valuable. And you are all scientists. Science is a way of thinking, and working and India has a proud record of world-class scientists - I've met many. And scientists can start at an early age. Science has many qualities, and the ones important here include:
- commitment.
- perseverance. Science has long periods of hard, often routine work but occasions where it all works out.
- objectiveness. It's critical to describe what you found - not what you would like to have found. Many scientific ideas don't work out.
- collaboration. The best scientists I have known have all shared their ideas and encouraged younger scientists and we're following in that tradition.
- carefulness. Record precisely what you did. Be sure you can repeat it. And create a record that other scientists can build on.
This is an ambitious project. So you'll have concepts and data you don't understand. We are gradually building documentation and mentoring - more experienced students to help the newcomers. Don't be afraid of not knowing - just ask! Even senior scientists have huge gaps in their knowledge. Modern tools can help a lot, especially Wikipedia. It's your friend, and it's young sibling Wikidata, which you will be using
At the start you will probably have several tasks:
- testing that you can run the software and understanding the documentation.
- manually annotating the documents - checking that the software has got the "right" answer.
- checking and updating the dictionaries. This is all really valuable for the project.
Looking forward to working with you.
Before getting started, go through these sites:
https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/wiki
https://www.slideshare.net/petermurrayrust/openvirus-tools-for-discovering-literature-on-viruses
https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/wiki/GETTING-STARTED
For specified queries and to download research papers using API's, there will be various programs to be installed and learn.
1.GETPAPERS
https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/wiki/getpapers
2.AMI
https://github.com/petermr/ami3/blob/master/INSTALL.md
3.Dictionaries
https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/wiki/Dictionaries:-Overview
https://github.com/petermr/openVirus/wiki/Are-face-masks-valuable%3F-A-tutorial-study
We have a code of conduct and we expect everyone to follow it with their heart. It is important to show respect for everyone, be careful about the way you think, talk and write. https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/