+1 Jodi!
I agree it would be great to experiment on-site as you suggest
Claudia
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:39:34 +0000, Jodi Schneider wrote
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Ward Cunningham ward@c2.com wrote:
I wonder if a better place to innovate might be in the conduct of research, rather than the reporting, review and publication of research?
+1*
Regarding the existing conversation, if we want a journal, we need to ask what the purpose is.
I'd highly recommend Jason Priem's notion of the "decoupled journal" [1][2]. Jason points out that journals have been used for four main purposes, historically:
- Registration
- Archiving
- Dissemination
- Certification
Decoupling these functions is the way forward for scholarly communication. And it's already been happening -- with ArXiV, SSRN, Math Overflow, ... and new ways of measuring research impact [3]. So which function(s) matter most to us?
We can ask:
(1) What can wikis do for the registration, archiving, and/or dissemination functions, better than existing technologies?
(2) How can wikis contribute to altmetrics [3] used for certification functions?
(3) How can we as a community surface the most interesting and powerful research? What technologies do we need? What social habits do we need?
(4) And, finally, how can our answers to #3 contribute to the certification we value? (Prestige, publications counting for tenure, ...)
I think rather than trying to create a high profile, high impact traditional journal, if we focused on these and similar questions, we would both move wiki research forward, and drive scientific communication itself forward.
-Jodi
- of course, reporting and doing research aren't an either/or -- they're
closely related and one drives the other
[1] Jason Priem at Purdue: video http://youtu.be/OM22JuiWYgE slides https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddfg787c_362f465q2g5 I've written a short summary here: http://jodischneider.com/blog/2012/11/04/altmetrics-can-help-surface- quality-content-jason-priem-on-the-decoupled-journal-as-the-achievable- future-of-scholarly-communication/
[2] Also a draft article called "Decoupling the scholarly journal" by Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger, under review for the Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience special issue "Beyond open access: visions for open evaluation of scientific papers by post-publication peer review" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDOy9GXXrUFc9TUIR2C470DTau8JEgZ9k-SMNIx5...
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thanks & cheers, Claudia koltzenburg@w4w.net