+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 <w...@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: > > 1. Registration > 2. Archiving > 3. Dissemination > 4. 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-SMNIx5pb8/edit? hl=en_US&authkey=CMeCqOYD > > [3] http://altmetrics.org thanks & cheers, Claudia koltzenb...@w4w.net _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
