I like the idea, but how to handle authentication in a decentralized system?
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NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 1 day agoWould be cool to see a decentralized journal or something. No idea how it would work actually work, but since research is supposed to be peer reviewed, why not just let the whole structure of it become open and decentralized?
Before cryptocurrencies really went to shit and became so toxic/scammy, I used to believe crypto could help decentralize it by democraticing the process and making it fully transparent, while also rewarding authors and peer reviewers for their work. But alas
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 day ago
underscore_@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
There are services like ORCID exist for uniquely attributing papers to an author. I think a federated review / publishing service could just provide a number of integrations for credential linking.
I was thinking about how such a tool might work over activity pub and I think it could work.
bnuuy@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
i’ve been thinking the same too, a decentralized place to upload / review papers with proper authorization with ORCID and the like would be nice
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I am somewhat familar with ERIC’s CLARIN (or ERIC CLARIN? or just CLARIN? I’m not sure how the two names are supposed to be used together). from the linked site:
I don’t fully understand how to operate it because it’s complicated but it does seem like a distributed scientific repository. It seems to focus on language but it’s not clear to me why it can’t, or doesn’t (or maybe it does IDK) function as a general datashare. I’m not sure if it’s a model for a full replacement of for-profit publishing houses but it seems like a promising direction for research to go.