f0b8fbdc30f384c58bf3936c09d626d4d9766c43ecf1f98a8233b280 BUILDING THE LEDGER OF RECORD FOR RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS Blockchain and Publishing Real World Experience NFAIS 5/15/2018 PATENT PENDING
THE RESEARCH PROCESS HAS WELL KNOWN OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT WHERE PUBLISHERS CAN PLAY A MEANINGFUL ROLE Cycle Time “Researchers are increasingly questioning the time it takes to publish their work. Many say that they feel trapped in a cycle of submission, rejection, review, re-review and re-re-review that seems to eat up months of their lives, interfere with job, grant and tenure applications and slow down the dissemination of results ” “He found that the mean review time had roughly doubled in the past decade, from 50 – 130 days to 150 – 250 days, depending on the journal . And when Royle looked at eight journals that had published cell- biology papers over the past decade, he found that publication times had lengthened at seven of them, mostly because review times had stretched out. .” What role should publishers play? 2 Patent Pending
THESE CHALLENGES OFTEN EMANATE OR ARE EXACERBATED FROM THE CONSTRAINING NATURE OF OUR SYSTEM TODAY 3 Patent Pending
• Risks in sharing and loss/abuse of IP • Long time lags in research dissemination • Limited sharing and discoverability that inhibits detection of duplicative work and • Discoverability gated until years from research issues with • Persistent issues in providing proper attribution research integrity and allocation of credit • High value content that becomes undiscoverable, • Citations that are continually subject to breaks dark knowledge and ambiguity • Ad-hoc/inconsistent rules and routines for attribution • Many opaque systems with dramatically different counts and balances and citing • Deeply retrospective and binary formal citation metrics • Limited and informal soft metrics 4 Patent Pending
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REFRAMING INDEXING AND ATTRIBUTION BY RETURNING TO THE ORIGINAL VISION CI·TA·TION sī’tāSH( ə )n/ The Mertonian description of normal science describes citations as the currency of science. Scientists make payments, in the form of citations, to their preceptors — Eugene Garfield, 1962 6 Patent Pending
ARTiFACTS -- CREATING THE LEDGER OF RECORD FOR RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS • Today, the digitization of linkages across research artifacts is captured for only a fraction o of outputs, focused largely on published articles, in deeply retrospective, inconsistent and error prone indexes • ARTiFACTS provides researchers a simple, user-friendly platform for sharing research, establishing and maintaining all linkages prospectively, from the earliest stages of research and including citing transactions • Through its distributed ledger and transaction engine it records a permanent, valid, and immutable chain of records for all research artifact ‘transactions’ including citing transactions • ARTiFACTS brings a new level of capability to authoritatively and rigorously manage citations, artifact linkages, and ownership pre- or post-publication 7 Patent Pending
THE ARTIFACTS PLATFORM Enabling Researchers & Scientists To Do Three Simple Things: • Establish proof-of-existence and confirm provenance at any time • Protect and manage intellectual property (IP) while concurrently facilitating knowledge and content sharing • Provide and receive valid, break-proof attribution and assignment of credit 8 Patent Pending
ARTiFACTS MAKES SHARING EASY, SAFE AND BENEFICIAL EASY SAFE BENEFICIAL • Designed specifically for • Cryptographic hashing • Build reputation immediately researcher workflows and time stamping • Find collaborators • Integrated with leading • Anonymous or public tools/ platforms • Speed research • DRM via smart • Data entry contracting (future) THE ARTiFACTS’ SYSTEM LIBERATES KNOWLEDGE AND BUILDS REPUTATIONS IN REAL TIME 9 Patent Pending
ARTiFACTS ENABLES FASTER, MORE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH, EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE 10 Patent Pending
• • Comprehensive and prospective indexing Single source-of truth • • All artifacts linked and searchable No time lags and artificial constraints • • Proof of origin established immutably and IP manageable by Foundation for new and community driven set of analytics creator/owner • Citations with dimensionality • Attribution/citation happening at any point across all research outputs providing more timely recognition and enhancing discoverability 11 Patent Pending
THIS ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE ENHANCES THE POWER OF THE PUBLISHED ARTICLE AND THE IMPACT OF THE JOURNAL Journal • Setting new standard in linked, Article available work product Researcher • Providing value to researcher • Enhanced with related content • Sharing made easy and • Aiding peer review and beneficial • Peer review facilitated reproduciblilty with more information • Reputation growing as • IP management options research happens • More powerful and credible Link to author’s additional supplementary research artifacts supporting the published article such as data sets, experimental design, methods, images, presentations, posters, etc 12 Patent Pending
HOW DOES IT WORK: EXAMPLE, ESTABLISHING PROOF OF EXISTENCE Creates a SHA-256 one- Add any additional way hash (fingerprint) of meta data if the file and puts that hash SUCCESS! I have on the blockchain with the desired just immutably block’s timestamp established provenance for this picture Click on any research output from the project 13 13
HOW DOES IT WORK: EXAMPLE, ESTABLISHING PROOF OF EXISTENCE 14 Patent Pending
NEXT STEPS? PROACTIVELY EXPLORE SOLUTIONS ENABLED BY NEW TECHNOLOGY Founding Member International Society of Blockchain for Science “ ARTiFAC ACTS Harnesses B Blockchain to Address Key Challenges within Scholarly ” Research Competitive Response Thursday, May 10, 2018 Jo McShea, VP & Lead Analyst Patent Pending 15
ARTiFACTS HAS BEEN FOUNDED BY A SEASONED TEAM WITH DEEP INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE Kevin in Marcos os Geor orge McCurr Curry Blanco anco Moor ore 12+ years experience 25+ years across 25+ years across in media and technology technology and Publishing/technology, including M/A, VC information industries Dave Courtney SAAS businesses and start-ups Former CSO, Thomson Former CTO, Elsevier Koc ochalk halko Morris is Scientific 25+ years experience 30+ years in technology including healthcare and and information industries life science information focused on science businesses and academia Former CSO Thomson Co-Founder ORCID Healthcare Representative Experience: ADVISERS How oward d Ratner er Jan Scheu eufen en Ron Dixon Executive Director, Chorus. Head of Clinical Affairs Chief Product Officer, Monax – Former Nature CTO at Onduo an enterprise blockchain company Bruce e Stangle gle Jeremy Ka Kaufm fman an Nancy Ka Kassam-Ada dams Psychologist / Researcher, Chairman & co-founder, CEO, LBRY – a blockchain UPENN School of Medicine Analysis Group content company 16
www.artifacts.ai THANK YOU cmorris@artifacts.ai kmccurry@artifacts.ai 17
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