The Open Text Mining Interface (OTMI) is an initiative from Nature Publishing Group (NPG). It aims to enable scholarly publishers, among others, to disclose their full text for indexing and text-mining purposes but without giving it away in a form that is readily human-readable. It provides for a range of structured disclosure options, from word vectors (lists of word occurrences with frequency counts) and the presentation of text 'snippets' out of narrative order, to the presentation of full text in 'raw' or 'reduced' form. ##date: Fri Nov 30 09:32:22 PST 2007 ##editor: Jim Pitman ##