SPECTRa-T is an twelve month project which will develop text- and data-mining tools that address the need to extract and classify the wealth of experimental research data currently untapped in chemistry theses.
The aims of SPECTRa-T are to investigate the requirements of the academic chemistry research community with respect to how data associated with theses may best be managed and to facilitate routine and automatic extraction of domain-specific data, its transformation into metadata and ingest into institutional repositories.
SPECTRa-T is a joint project between Cambridge University and Imperial College and is funded under the JISC Digital Repositories Programme. The project partners have been previously involved in the SPECTRa project to enable chemists to routinely deposit their experimental data in digital repositories.