Dan Goodman on Nostr: What's missing to replace our current publishing system? What technical and social ...
What's missing to replace our current publishing system? What technical and social components do we need to build? My first suggestions below, but I'd like to hear feedback from others.
* An easy (frictionless) and flexible way to edit and submit documents that can be permanently referenced and that you feel confident will stay accessible forever
* An easy and semantically rich way to link between these documents (e.g. document A is a review of document B)
* A way to view these documents that surfaces and highlights relevant related content (e.g. listing and summarising reviews, comments, related papers)
* A way to automatically convert documents into any standard format (HTML, Word, LaTeX, PDF, ...) so that the system can co-exist with existing workflows (the legacy journal system for example)
* A database storing all this data that isn't owned by a single institution, either commercial or public, but that is distributed or duplicated across all the universities and libraries of the world. A way for these research institutions to democratically decide which organisations can submit data into the database.
* An easy (frictionless) and flexible way to edit and submit documents that can be permanently referenced and that you feel confident will stay accessible forever
* An easy and semantically rich way to link between these documents (e.g. document A is a review of document B)
* A way to view these documents that surfaces and highlights relevant related content (e.g. listing and summarising reviews, comments, related papers)
* A way to automatically convert documents into any standard format (HTML, Word, LaTeX, PDF, ...) so that the system can co-exist with existing workflows (the legacy journal system for example)
* A database storing all this data that isn't owned by a single institution, either commercial or public, but that is distributed or duplicated across all the universities and libraries of the world. A way for these research institutions to democratically decide which organisations can submit data into the database.