I am wondering what a ballpark figure would be how long it would take to set up an instance of this for a given scientific field for example. Days? Months? Years? I fear it is probably the latter.
I think the answer is probably closer to weeks to months if working with field experts, depending on how deep you want to go.
The core of it is open source.
I think the most exciting thing about it is it brings more sophisticated computation to the more qualitative sciences.
The key issue in estimating how big a job it is is how complex your entity extraction and inference rulesets are.
What's included in the non-core parts? Are there patents to be licensed?