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====General==== | ====General==== | ||
*Tools/protocols for choosing what to work on and choosing when to stop | |||
*Mechanisms for enabling team projects (what prevents it now?) | |||
*Mechanisms for getting people to work together, better prizes and rewards | |||
==== | ====1 Ideas:==== | ||
*Ideas Marketplace: Makes it easier to make a collaborative arrangement | |||
====3 | ====3 Background Research:==== | ||
Opportunities for better Referencing | |||
*crowdsourcing for background research. What are the standard set of references/citations for X. DOIs for sets of references; abstraction for references | |||
*What’s the right way to present your data? | |||
**best practices for reporting data | |||
**open data conventions; examples for presenting data; (e.g. error bars and statistics) | |||
*Meta-level tools for finding publications | |||
*A way of conducting semantic research of articles and a way of extracting info from them | |||
*A way to ask research questions and find the right people who can answer | |||
====3.5 Background Research -> Experimentation==== | |||
*Open funding and microfunding. Outsourcing in a lab. Lab needs resources, can plug into a microfunding model or network | |||
3 Background Research | |||
====4 Experimentation:==== | |||
*Standardized interfaces for controlling instrumentation via OWW | |||
*System for outsourcing experimentation | |||
*A way of assigning microcredit for specialists who only want to work on part of the problem -> Attaching your credentials to a chunk of data | |||
*A reward system for amateur researchers | |||
*An academic “innocentive” for research: Is there a way to orally ingest perfume?” “I’d like a biobrick vector that does X” Research marketplace; could be a mailing list; Craigslist for research | |||
*Consensus protocols: Standardized versions of protocols that are easy to find and free; | |||
*Different kinds of protocols and methods that provide information and how-tos for all phases and aspects of research; | |||
*Building communities and networks at all steps on the cycle, | |||
*Mechanisms for specialization in communities | |||
*Better ways of getting your activities out in the world; subscribe to your colleagues’ work; | |||
*Community building in the experimental cycle; example is a feed of “everyone else who’s using this protocol.” | |||
====6 Analysis==== | |||
*An easy way to integrate your data into other people’s data sets | |||
====8 – 11 Publishing Cycle:==== | |||
*A way to apply peer review earlier than the publication phase; rolling, cycle-wide peer review; PR at the idea stage | |||
(Dotted line to …) | |||
*Mechanism for capturing the value of negative results; collecting all the stuff that doesn’t make it into the paper like peer review; deleted scenes, the director’s cut; alternate endings | |||
*Implement CVS for publication: from submission to publication; | |||
*Design a publication process where the author has control; a centralized document with continuous version control. (As you hit a point in the review process should be less back and forth between you and the publisher, fewer publication delays.) | |||
*Build tools for writing: Drew envisions “A sea of unreviewed manuscripts” where the editor comes to you. A manuscript marketplace. Allows for … | |||
**feedback on rougher manuscripts | |||
**less stigma for having an error | |||
**Metric of error correction for each publication – finer-grained metrics | |||
====11 – 1 Publication -> Ideas: ==== | |||
Research is not conducted in vacuum; there’s a need to couple conclusions and publications with the next set of questions. | |||
*Need a mechanism for going from a publication back into to the idea pool | |||
*Need a mechanism for others (possibly nonresearchers) to pose questions, problems, ideas for research |
Revision as of 19:20, 13 June 2008
General
- Tools/protocols for choosing what to work on and choosing when to stop
- Mechanisms for enabling team projects (what prevents it now?)
- Mechanisms for getting people to work together, better prizes and rewards
1 Ideas:
- Ideas Marketplace: Makes it easier to make a collaborative arrangement
3 Background Research:
Opportunities for better Referencing
- crowdsourcing for background research. What are the standard set of references/citations for X. DOIs for sets of references; abstraction for references
- What’s the right way to present your data?
- best practices for reporting data
- open data conventions; examples for presenting data; (e.g. error bars and statistics)
- Meta-level tools for finding publications
- A way of conducting semantic research of articles and a way of extracting info from them
- A way to ask research questions and find the right people who can answer
3.5 Background Research -> Experimentation
- Open funding and microfunding. Outsourcing in a lab. Lab needs resources, can plug into a microfunding model or network
4 Experimentation:
- Standardized interfaces for controlling instrumentation via OWW
- System for outsourcing experimentation
- A way of assigning microcredit for specialists who only want to work on part of the problem -> Attaching your credentials to a chunk of data
- A reward system for amateur researchers
- An academic “innocentive” for research: Is there a way to orally ingest perfume?” “I’d like a biobrick vector that does X” Research marketplace; could be a mailing list; Craigslist for research
- Consensus protocols: Standardized versions of protocols that are easy to find and free;
- Different kinds of protocols and methods that provide information and how-tos for all phases and aspects of research;
- Building communities and networks at all steps on the cycle,
- Mechanisms for specialization in communities
- Better ways of getting your activities out in the world; subscribe to your colleagues’ work;
- Community building in the experimental cycle; example is a feed of “everyone else who’s using this protocol.”
6 Analysis
- An easy way to integrate your data into other people’s data sets
8 – 11 Publishing Cycle:
- A way to apply peer review earlier than the publication phase; rolling, cycle-wide peer review; PR at the idea stage
(Dotted line to …)
- Mechanism for capturing the value of negative results; collecting all the stuff that doesn’t make it into the paper like peer review; deleted scenes, the director’s cut; alternate endings
- Implement CVS for publication: from submission to publication;
- Design a publication process where the author has control; a centralized document with continuous version control. (As you hit a point in the review process should be less back and forth between you and the publisher, fewer publication delays.)
- Build tools for writing: Drew envisions “A sea of unreviewed manuscripts” where the editor comes to you. A manuscript marketplace. Allows for …
- feedback on rougher manuscripts
- less stigma for having an error
- Metric of error correction for each publication – finer-grained metrics
11 – 1 Publication -> Ideas:
Research is not conducted in vacuum; there’s a need to couple conclusions and publications with the next set of questions.
- Need a mechanism for going from a publication back into to the idea pool
- Need a mechanism for others (possibly nonresearchers) to pose questions, problems, ideas for research