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• Tools for choosing what to work on and choosing when to stop | • Tools for choosing what to work on and choosing when to stop | ||
11 Publication: | ====11 Publication:==== | ||
Research is not conducted in vacuum need to couple conclusions and publications with the next set of questions. | Research is not conducted in vacuum need to couple conclusions and publications with the next set of questions. | ||
1) a mechanism for going from a publication back to the idea pool | 1) a mechanism for going from a publication back to the idea pool | ||
2) mechanism for others (possibly nonresearchers) to pose questions, problems, ideas for research | 2) mechanism for others (possibly nonresearchers) to pose questions, problems, ideas for research | ||
3.5 Background Research -> Experimentation | ====3.5 Background Research -> Experimentation==== | ||
• Open funding and microfunding. Outsourcing in a lab. Lab needs resources, can plug into a microfunding model or network | • Open funding and microfunding. Outsourcing in a lab. Lab needs resources, can plug into a microfunding model or network | ||
Revision as of 19:15, 13 June 2008
General
• Tools for choosing what to work on and choosing when to stop
11 Publication:
Research is not conducted in vacuum need to couple conclusions and publications with the next set of questions. 1) a mechanism for going from a publication back to the idea pool 2) mechanism for others (possibly nonresearchers) to pose questions, problems, ideas for research
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 • Outsourced experimentation
• Reward system for amateur researchers • Academic “innocentive” for research: Is there a way to orally ingest perfume?” “I’d like a biobrick vector that does X” Research marketplace; a mailing list; Craigslist for research
1 Ideas Marketplace: Makes it easier to make a collaborative arrangement
• Microcredit for specialists who only want to work on part of the problem -> Attaching your credentials to a chunk of data
3 Background Research: -> REFERENCING Lots of reinventing of the wheel. Need 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 of finding publications • 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
• Apply peer review earlier than the publication phase; rolling, cycle-wide peer review; PR at the idea stage (Dotted line to …) • 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
8 – 11 As you hit a point in the review process should be less back and forth between you and the publisher, fewer publication delays. A publication process where the author has control; a centralized document -> CVS for publication: from submission to publication; Single document continuous version control.
• Tools for writing: “A sea of unreviewed manuscripts” where the editor comes to you. A manuscript marketplace. Allows for - rougher manuscripts - less stigma for having an error - Metric of error correction for each publication – finer-grained metrics
6 Analysis : An easy way to integrate your data into other people’s data sets
• More team projects what prevents it now? • Mechanisms for getting people to work together, better prizes and rewards
4 Experimentation Consensus protocols: Standardized versions of protocols that are easy to find and free;
• Different kinds of protocols and methods for all phases and aspects of research; Communities and networks at all steps, building on specialization in communities
• Better ways of getting your activities out in the world; subscribe to your colleagues work; Community building in the experimental cycle; Have a feed of “everyone else who’s using this protocol.