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Bonfire Open Science is now @ORCID_Org certified as a Manuscript Submission System provider 🎉

This opens new possibilities for turning conversations into citable, #FAIR and permanent research objects. But what should be archived? How does this affect scientific discourse?

More details: https://openscience.network/blog/science_networks/

We also updated the website to investigate such questions together: https://openscience.network

Interested in setting up an instance for your collective or at your institution? Get in touch

crazyeddie

@crazyeddie@mastodon.social replied · last week

@bonfire @ORCID_Org "Open Science Network now makes it possible to archive posts and entire discussions to..."

So then as a researcher I could tag a thread for such an archive so I can cite it in my publications?

Can this be done to just any thread/reply?

Bonfire

@bonfire@indieweb.social replied · last week

@crazyeddie

Currently only the original author of a post can archive that thread, but how that should work is still up for discussion...

@ORCID_Org

Heenakhan

@heenakhan1992@ioc.exchange replied · last week

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Zack Batist

@zackbatist@archaeo.social replied · last week

@bonfire @ORCID_Org great series of questions in that post. In my experience, social media is a great way to escape the formality of scholarly publishing, getting at the subtext and things left unsaid in a published work. Not trying to burst your bubble, but my prediction is that treating posts as scholarly outputs will make them more formal and less meaningful with regard to what I just described. Also, could you not cite a post before this?

Bonfire

@bonfire@indieweb.social replied · last week

@zackbatist

Can't speak for everyone involved but the intention isn't necessarily to publish "social media" discussions as they typically look, but to expand "social networking" to new types of collaborative exploration/production of science. E.g. you could imagine a qualitative researcher asking a specific question (maybe using circles and boundaries to target it to a specific audience) and collecting in depth responses (instead of using a survey tool or conducting one-on-one conversations)

Zack Batist

@zackbatist@archaeo.social replied · last week

@bonfire@indieweb. as a qualitative researcher myself, this potential use case raises red flags to be honest. Interviews and surveys are well established for good reasons, ie they allow for controlled study design, have boundaries that enable consent conditions to be communicated clearly, enable clearer communication between researchers and subjects, etc. One can imagine all they want, but in practice I don’t think this will enhance empirical qualitative research as a data collection platform

Bonfire

@bonfire@indieweb.social replied · last week

@zackbatist

Fair enough, we're not scientists ourselves, and as mentioned in the blog post we don't claim to have the answers. We've just built some prototypes based on suggestions from a few researchers involved so far, and are extending an invitation to join in answering these questions, and in co-designing and experimenting with the tools. There's no reason the checks and balances available with survey tools can't be built into this for example.

Zack Batist

@zackbatist@archaeo.social replied · last week

@bonfire I totally respect that and I’ll be happy to see the project evolve

Bonfire

@bonfire@indieweb.social replied · last week

FYI for all researchers who have an account on the OSN test instance: it has now moved to https://sandbox.openscience.network, with all profiles and data preserved, and the old URLs should still work and be redirected to the new location. We simple didn't want this instance to become synonymous with "the" open science network, which should be decentralised, but it will continue to be used for meta discussions and co-design.

Carlos Cámara

@ccamara@mastodon.social replied · last week

@bonfire is it possible to create new accounts? Orcid sign-up doesn't seem to work

Bonfire

@bonfire@indieweb.social replied · last week

@ccamara that instance is currently invite-only for people who want to be involved in co-designing and testing the tools, if that's you just let us know!

Carlos Cámara

@ccamara@mastodon.social replied · last week

@bonfire I'd definitely want to do it! How should I do it? (Actually, I ve been meaning to write you so long ago, because I love what you're building here and the way you're doing it, but I'm not sure how to do it or what can I do)

Bonfire

@bonfire@indieweb.social replied · last week

@ccamara awesome 😊 have sent an invite

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