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| ** Needs and solutions for collaboration, first principles | | ** Needs and solutions for collaboration, first principles |
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| | === Researchers’ needs and options for collaborative synthesis (essay) === |
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| | [https://www.arthurperret.fr/articles/2022-11-13-researchers-needs-and-options-for-collaborative-synthesis.html Published on Arthur’s website]. This essay examines the needs of researchers in relation to collaborative research synthesis, compares them to some the software solutions that exist at the time of writing, and discusses potential ways to progress forward. |
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| == What could a tool do for synthesis (wiki style topic page) == | | == What could a tool do for synthesis (wiki style topic page) == |
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| ****** Could be gone in a wiki tool like Roam Research or Obsidian or even Notion. | | ****** Could be gone in a wiki tool like Roam Research or Obsidian or even Notion. |
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| * '''Collaborative synthesis: what interfaces do we need? What solutions exist today?''' (written from the researcher’s perspective, focusing on digital tools)
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| ** '''What interfaces do we need for collaborative synthesis?'''
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| *** We need ways to work with materials.
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| **** This includes:
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| ***** Gathering things (collecting)
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| ***** Breaking them down ('''analyzing''')
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| ***** Organizing them (classifying, tagging, linking)
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| ***** Combining them to create new things ('''synthesizing''')
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| ***** … ?
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| **** This can be done with:
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| ***** Specialized software (e.g. reference management software for references)
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| ***** Relational databases, '''graph databases'''
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| ***** Outlining, mind mapping
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| ***** '''Hypertext''' (e.g. wikis, plain text files with wikilinks…)
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| ***** … ?
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| *** We need collaborative writing interfaces that meet our scientific writing needs, which are:
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| **** Writing citations, math, footnotes, figures, code, mixing different languages/scripts…
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| **** Producing structured output
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| **** Automation (e.g. processing citations and generating bibliographies, cross-referencing figure labels, indexes…)
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| **** Choice of synchronous/asynchronous editing
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| **** Editorial workflow management
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| **** … ?
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| *** We need ways to navigate and share what we're creating
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| **** Lists
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| **** Tables
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| **** Document views
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| **** Graph views
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| **** Backlinks
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| **** … ?
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| ** '''What are our options if we want to do this right now?'''
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| *** Multiple interoperable tools. This can be:
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| **** Web applications exchanging data via API?
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| ***** Any examples?
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| **** Decentralized plain text-based solutions, with collaboration enabled by version control software (e.g. Git). Like Manubot but not document/publication centric.
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| ***** Any examples?
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| **** …?
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| *** All-in-one solution
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| **** Are there existing examples?
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| ***** Semantic software:
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| ****** Semantic MediaWiki
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| ****** Omeka-S
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| ****** …?
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| **** Are there solutions that could be adapted or expanded to meet our needs?
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| ***** …?
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| == Bibliography == | | == Bibliography == |