Chris Hartgerink | Modular Research and Cooperative Ownership
Bio | Chris Hartgerink is Executive Director of Liberate Science GmbH, a cooperative resetting research work. He was awarded his PhD in Methods and Statistics from Tilburg University (2020) for his work on building sustainable science. His main focus right now is resetting research publishing.
Links | Liberate Science | twitter
Summary | The peer-reviewed paper is the de facto unit of scholarly research. Hartgerink and his team at Liberate Science are rethinking that premise and rebuilding from first principles for the digital age. Their first product, Hypergraph, introduces a modular research architecture that allows the different aspects of the scientific process — hypothesis, study design, results, etc — to live as distinct and separate units. This model promises easier replication, streamlined collaboration, and a framework for incentivizing contributorship (as opposed to authorship).
Notes from the interview:
Verified, Shared, Modular, and Provenance Based Research Communication with the Dat Protocol
Coming: Chris’s blog post on the “History of Modular Research”
Highlights:
They are building "as you go" communication infrastructure and pioneering new forms of community co-creation and ownership. pic.twitter.com/HmDpkdpi18
— science better (@scibetter) October 1, 2020
On 21st Century science publishing: "If we would go back to the drawing board, and we have the tools and the knowledge of today, what we do differently?" pic.twitter.com/W0NxKRvCBx
— science better (@scibetter) October 1, 2020
Moving away from one feedback moment (during peer review) towards a system that provides feedback throughout the process. pic.twitter.com/XBiIATVPLD
— science better (@scibetter) October 1, 2020
On the importance of moving our scientific credit system from authorship to contributorship: pic.twitter.com/Ai2LaHzPlE
— science better (@scibetter) October 1, 2020