Changing the currency in academia with the Contribution Net

The new currency in academiaEdinburgh25 October 2013

Jason Hoyt, PhDCEO & Co-founder - PeerJ@thePeerJ / @jasonHoyt

“Silicon Valley”

THE APPLE II IN 1666

THE ARTICLE AS THE ONLY CURRENCY HAS LED TO TWO MAJOR PROBLEMS

The academic career pyramid

300+ years on we now have this

Final available output (a PDF writeup)

FILTERED & HIDDEN CONTRIBUTIONSCause ya know, the research paper is the only INCENTIVE to get ahead

Filtered & hidden contributions

Materials &

reagents

Software

Hardware

Negative data

Individual data points

Machine & environment states

Ideas

Hidden reviews

Uncited references

Presentations

Lab notes

Rebuttals

Informal discussions

A WORLD OF HIDDEN INFORMATION

WE DIDN’T STOP WITH THE APPLE II

NOW A CONNECTED (& MORE OPEN) WORLD

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WHY CAN I ASK MY PHONE FOR REAL-TIME TRAFFIC,BUT NOT IF MY PCR LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING RELEVANT?

Great in 1666 Not so much now

WE NEED TO STOP THROWING THIS OUT IN ORDER TO SOLVE OUR GREATEST CHALLENGES

Contributions are being collected

Blogs

+ most contributions from machines

THE CONTRIBUTION NETWORKThe next stage of academia

From Peurto Rico To Reddit

The article & data is reusable

JSON / XML / RDF

4,000 unique visitorson first day

75,000 unique visitorson first day

But….

Capturing the hidden contributions

That contribution is reusable by others

PROVIDES NEW CURRENCY FOR INNOVATION & JOBS

The Contribution Net

FROM PYRAMID TO NETWORK OF OPPORTUNITIES

Academia - Then & Now (we just don’t realize it yet)

IMAGINE WHAT COULD BE DONE WITH A RESEARCH WORLD LIKE THIS

WHO WILL OWN THE CONTRIBUTION NET?

WHICH WILL IT BECOME ?OPEN|CLOSED

WILL WE BE ABLE TO SETTLE ON OPEN DATA STANDARDS?

Jason@peerj.com

@thePeerJ / @JasonHoyt