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PSDI Webinar: Data Revival - Making the intangible tangible: The journey from lab notebook to digital insight - Slides

  • 1. ROR icon University of Southampton

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In the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) our first round pathfinders are exploratory pieces of work looking at an application area where PSDI could develop tools to enhance the research infrastructure. This video presents a recording of the Data Revival webinar presented by Samuel Munday on 16th November 2023. https://www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webinar-data-revival/

The recording of this webinar is available on YouTube: 

Abstract: The University of Southampton’s chemistry department has accumulated a wealth of chemical knowledge over the years, some of which has been captured in over 2000 lab books. The vast majority of these have been sat gathering dust in a cupboard for a long time, unable to be destroyed due to both the value of knowledge they hold and their importance for Health and Safety reporting. However, this knowledge is intangible and difficult to access, offering no value to the department whilst taking up space and presenting a fire risk. We present our work on turning this unstructured resource into a structured accessible database that holds FAIR data open to analytics and intelligent search. Our system utilises AI-driven natural language processing techniques, as well as chemical structure recognition, to extract all the types of chemical information required to create a useful, searchable database. This database unlocks 3000 chemist years of knowledge and enables more efficient and accurate future research. In this webinar we discuss the process of digitising such an archive effectively, the AI tools we have created to work with such unstructured knowledge at scale, the utility of the digital database created for the chemistry department, and the feedback received from the department on the system’s potential for further development.

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UK Research and Innovation
PSDI Phase 1b EP/X032663/1
UK Research and Innovation
Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure Phase 1b EP/X032701/1

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2023-11-16