Abstract
AbstractTo advance the pace of scientific discovery we propose a conceptual format that forms the basis of a truly new way of publishing science. In our proposal, all scientific communication objects (including experimental workflows, direct results, email conversations, and all drafted and published information artifacts) are labeled and stored in a great, big, distributed data store (or many distributed data stores that are all connected). Each item has a set of metadata attached to it, which includes (at least) the person and time it was created, the type of object it is, and the status of the object including intellectual property rights and ownership. Every researcher can (and must) deposit every knowledge item that is produced in the lab into this repository. With this deposition goes an essential metadata component that states who has the rights to see, use, distribute, buy or sell this item. Into this grand (and system-wise distributed, cloud-based) architecture, all items produced by a single lab, or several labs, are stored, labeled and connected.
Highlights
After some time, a conclusion is reached: enough to publish as a paper
A new experiment is run – the results of the two are compared. Throughout this process, the various people involved in the experiment (researchers, analysts, managers, students, even cleaners) communicate with each other: through email, at whiteboards, in meetings, via Skype, telephone or wikis: plans are forged, results are shared, thoughts are formulated
The paper gets marked up in XML by typesetters in Manila, shipped to the Electronic Warehouse in Amsterdam, served up to the XML Content Server in Dayton, rendered into html and appears in the journal: a nearly entirely electronic process, at the end of which the author has a link to a PDF to add to his or her name
Summary
A conclusion is reached: enough to publish as a paper. This story gets written, drafted, shared, edited; references are found and added; figures are created and fitted in; the manuscript gets submitted to a conference, a journal. There is an avalanche of data created within a lab, a research group: all experimental data points exist as electronic files on some hard drive, all calculations, manipulations, renderings, interpretations; all conversations, cogitations and reviews; all presentations, publications, reviews and curations exist somewhere, stored in some format, by someone.
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