From the webpage:
The ContentMine uses machines to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature.
We believe that Content Mining has huge potential to make knowledge available to everyone (including machines). This can enable new and exciting research, technology developments such as in Artificial Intelligence, and opportunities for wealth creation.
Manual content-mining has been routine for 150 years, but many publishers feel threatened by machine-content-mining. It’s certainly disruptive technology but we argue that if embraced wholeheartedly it will take science forward massively and create completely new opportunities. Nevertheless many mainstream publishers have actively campaigned against it.
Although content mining can be done without breaking current laws, the borderline between legal and illegal is usually unclear. So we campaign for reform, and we work on the basis that anything that is legal for a human should also be legal for a machine.
* The right to read is the right to mine *
Well, when I went to see what facts had been discovered:
We don’t have any facts yet – there should be some here very soon!
Well, at least now you have the URL and the pitch. Curious when facts are going to start to appear?
I’m not entirely comfortable with the term “facts” because it is usually used to put some particular “fact” off-limits from discussion or debate. “It’s a fact that ….” (you fill in the blank) To disagree with such a statement makes the questioner appear stupid, obstinate or even rude.
Which is, of course, the purpose of any statement “It’s a fact that….” It is intended to end debate on that “fact” and to exclude anyone who continues to disagree.
While we wait for “facts” to appear at ContentMine, research the history of claims of various “facts” in history. You can start with some “facts” about beavers.