User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/COASP 2010/Notes

Wikis as platforms for science communication

• Wikis can be used, in principle, for any aspect of scholarly communication, as detailed in this comparison of wiki- and paper-based communication systems

• Examples exist for all steps of the research cycle, except successful applications to major funders (see this overview for some attempts)

Wikis as platforms for OA publishing

• For technical reasons, publishing was historically a separate step, performed about once per iteration of the research cycle

• Publishing every relevant bit of information immediately at each step is technically feasible now, and the remaining hurdles are cultural ones.

• Conferences: Stand-alone site / contextualized schedule / contextualized talks and Posters (possibly also as clickable imagemaps, like here)

• Research papers: Accompanied by wiki article, contextualized on-wiki
• Review articles

• Books

• Publication lists (incl. supplementary materials and in principle direct links to the raw data)

• built-in article-level metrics at bottom of page, author-level metrics via Special:Contributions, further aggregation possible (e.g. at the level of research projects, labs or thematic workgroups)

• open access by default