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A new home for Open Science
"Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers. The future of scholarly communication is open, community-owned, and interconnected."
@fresseng Sounds like an OpenAI project to me: lots of promisses, but finally to take people's jobs away and make the rich richer
@fresseng I don't get it - this is for organisations, at least at the moment, right? End users cannot (yet?) sign up for it?!
Like Mastodon, and the whole Fediverse, the Open Science Network is meant to be decentralized. But, unlike Mastodon, there is no flagship instance ready for use. One reason for that is for it to be really decentralized.
I guess it is open both to institutions and individuals who have the will and the means to set up an instance into which end users could sign up.
For more detailed or precise answer, the best is to ask the team begin it : @Bonfire
Is there a means of connecting to Bluesky beyond just Brid.gy? Or is that the mechanism used @bonfire ?
@fresseng oh, I **LOVE** this! Yes, this is exactly how random academic cross-fertilisation should happen: in public, in persistent, citable exchanges, which can be interrogated and integrated by later scholars. Of course, it depends on good archives – perhaps @internetarchive should look at archiving traffic on at least those #Fediverse instances most used by academic communities?
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
