WEEK 05 · FERMLIT BEGINS: THE CORPUS
Every serious research project starts with an uncomfortable question: has somebody already done this? In corporate strategy you would call it a competitive scan. In science it is the related-work search, and skipping it is the most common way a newcomer wastes six months. So the first thing FermLit does is look for its own twin. If a fermentation-literature dataset already exists, wonderful: you extend it and cite i…
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Saturday sandbox
Dagdelen et al. (2024), "Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models", Nature Communications 15:1418. The closest methodological cousin of FermLit (materials science). Read it this week; you will cite it
In: LABLOOP-W05 Notebook
By Sunday you should be able to say: “I know whether FermLit is novel or an extension, and I can defend every field in my schema.”
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