@bonfire @GunnarBlohm @brembs @UlrikeHahn @jorge @open_science we definitely want Scholar Nexus to be a federated / decentralised system, but with two caveats. Firstly, we know that many scientists now will find this unfamiliar and possibly slightly scary, and so we want there to be - at least at first - a very feature complete reference version that we expect the majority to use, with the overlapping federated parts likely to be more important down the line (but absolutely built in from the start). Secondly, we want rigorous archival guarantees for all content, and I think this implies at least some centralisation in the sense that there would be an organisation - composed of member research institutions around the world - that would define what was taken to be archival, and guarantee that it will be stored (and duplicated across member orgs). I think both of these are likely to be considered essential features for many scientists. But, if you agree and already have it in mind to do something like this, or at least to support it as one use case, then we'd definitely be interested in discussing more!