Annotated Hub of Science

The Annotated Hub of Science is a proposal for an integrated stack of documents, data, summaries and discussions, and social networks related to science. Science is only as good as its tools and methods; including its methods of discovery, collaboration, refinement, and delight.

Please edit, spindle, and refactor at will.

Stack[edit]

Direct access to research
1. "Hillel", a P2P repository: An app which lets authors host (locally, on their phone/computer) their published work, reimplementing researchgate in a robust + (c)-compliant way, whether or not they have an institutional repository. (via IPFS.)
2. "Starling", an #ICanHazPDF service: A mechanism for people to request an article & have the request added to a global list. These requests can be processed by any script or person (like 3.), can update collective bounties, &c. Starling gets you a copy eventually, even if the article isn't yet OA. In some jurisdictions requests can be amplified by a FOIA request for the article, when one author is at a public university : in this case, as with Hillel, a software agent in the client can catch and respond to recurring requests, so the author only has to find and post an article once.
Overlays, summaries: "Distillation", "I can't believe it's not Science/Nature!" --
1. "Distillation" -- dual documents, summaries that stay close to the original to work w/ annotations of them in-place
2. "ICBINSN" -- A universe of dual journals, w/ the same list of articles, echoing {both closed + open} journals, offering automated and streamlined summaries + commentaries.
3. These can contribute to Starling.
Metrics: "Public Web of Science" - free + customizable metrics for published literature: extending the good work of Scholia and PLOS.
1. Use a focused Wikicite wikibase w/ 1 entry per {citable work [articles, patents, books], authors, topics, affiliations, funders}.
2. Capture curation work from institutions. [e.g.: Dimensions gets data donations from libraries + funders]
Annotated reader: "Sci co-analysis"? -- A reader with an annotation overlay for reading papers
1. Helps you search for a paper [via UPW/Starling] or reads one you give it, overlays a reasonable auto-curation of public notes (Tweets, blog posts) on the article, lets you add your own. (many related prototypes exist -- Codex may be the best)

Related efforts[edit]

Unpaywall + its search tool
ArchiveLab + its superhero network
Shoulders writ large, including the data, papers, collective science, + annotations the above are built with and around.

Things we probably don't need to do ourselves:

link resolution/OA status database (http://oadoi.org/);
mirroring fully OA journals and institutional repositories (https://core.ac.uk/);
subject and citation graphs, other discovery and meta-search (Microsoft Academic, https://www.lens.org/, https://www.semanticscholar.org/, http://gettheresearch.org/ etc.);
comprehensive and editable metadata about papers (https://fatcat.wiki/);
open repository for any academics to upload their own papers and get them citable (https://zenodo.org/).

Some of these we could use as our backend/source or overlays.

Components[edit]

Storage

DocumentCloud can store O(100M) documents + integrate w/ sunshine requests.
Wikidata (or a dedicated Wikicite instance of wikibase) can store associated metadata + sources
Zenodo + a Dataverse instance can store arbitrary datasets [like MAG] until they can be parsed into the above. DV supports shared folders for projects.
Hypothesis? can store the annotations themselves

Interfaces

For discovery: [ICBINS, ...]
For sharing one's work: [FMe, ...]
For opening other work: Dissemin, OAButton,
For annotating:
For comparing one's school/dept: [dissemin, OpenAire dashboards, ]
... wanted

Feeds

The Crossref Event Feed can incorporate and share feeds of new publications
Artefacts models of capturing drafts, nanopubs, methods, granular steps. ...
...

Support

Technical: transfer, digitization, amberizing
Editorial: flipping (catalog, field contacts)
Legal: process, institution, regional
Admin: consortia, nets
Publicity: docs, stories