Decentralized Science: A Comparative Study of Existing Platforms and Their Applications (Part Two)
Welcome back to journeying with us! We hope you enjoyed our last article where we explored DeSci platforms as DAOs and in Arts & NFTs.
In this article, we’ll be going further to discuss DeSci platforms in Publishing and Data Storage. We hope you’re ready.
Without much ado, let’s begin…
Decentralized Science Platforms in Publishing
This comprises teams, initiatives, and businesses working to change how and where research is published. Among the themes are incentivized peer review, micro-publications, and platforms where scientists may get payments in exchange for their work.
Finally, researchers can publish without worrying about emptying their pockets and other researchers can access their work without worrying about their pockets. It should be noted that some of these projects are still under development as DeSci is a fairly new space.
Sci2Sci
sci2sci creates a “scientist-to-scientist” platform for storing, sharing, and searching research data. It is an electronic lab notebook combined with a publishing platform that enables researchers to effortlessly put research data into open access — whenever it is ready — with a single click.
The dataset-specific search engine provides advanced search options, such as finding datasets that contain the same information using a search by structural similarity. It indexes data from the sci2sci platform as well as other services like Zenodo and FigShare.
DeScier
DeScier has the aim of decentralizing the access and publishing of research papers. All that is required by scientists like you is to sign up on their platform and submit your paper for publishing. Submitting your paper attracts reviews before publishing.
On deScier, you also have access to other scientists for collaboration.
Ants Review
As a scientist in web3, you’re not just limited to getting rewards for publishing your research papers. You’re also rewarded for reviewing the publications of other scientists. Ants Review makes this easy for you by establishing a platform to incentivize both publishing and peer review contributions of scientists.
TalentDAO
Talent DAO is a community of organizational scientists, strategists, and researchers working together to create the world’s first decentralized community-reviewed publication protocol for the social sciences and to share knowledge with the ecosystem.
With TalentDAO, researchers in the social sciences can publish their works and also get rewarded for their contributions to the works of others. You could join their waiting list on their website.
Longevity Review by VitaDAO
Longevity review by VitaDAO is a platform that provides funding for researchers in the longevity space to review each other’s works. It addresses critical issues with academic journals.
Decentralized Science Platforms in Data Storage
Asides the going through DeSci platforms in publishing and NFTs fields to store your data on the blockchain, you could also go through DeSci platforms that are specialized in data storage. This data is not just limited to your research papers, you could choose to store any kind of data including personal data on the blockchain.
The platforms that could help you with these include:
Ceramic
Ceramic specializes in decentralizing application databases so that the data stored can be used by varieties of applications. If you’re not a developer, then Ceramic might not be a good match for you. However, you could still check their website to see how it works.
Data Lake
Data Lake is a start-up financed by the European Union that is developing a worldwide medical data contribution system based on web3 technology. People may contribute their medical information to researchers all around the world. This medical information is relevant in helping researchers cure diseases, discover new medicines, and enhance diagnostics and patient outcomes.
Consents are recorded on the Polygon blockchain, ensuring that researchers have a legal right to access the donor’s data. The whole procedure is designed to protect the patient’s privacy, and consent may be rescinded at any moment. To encourage stakeholder involvement, the project has been tokenized and rewards data contributors as well as other market players with the $LAKE token.
Weave Chain
Weave Chain provides a solution for both public and private datasets, with immutable blockchain features that ensure data lineage and comprehensive role-based permissions down to the table level that ensures security.
Researchers may instantaneously exchange and access secure and tamper-proof data, with no need to download updates because modifications are reflected in real-time.
DeSci Labs
DeSci Labs is laying the groundwork for Decentralized Science. DeSci Nodes, DeSci Labs’ initial product, offers a radically transparent scientific record ledger that is safe, permanent, interoperable, and immune to cross-national censorship.
Conclusion
Great! you’ve followed us through this article and we are glad you’ve come this far. We tried to cover as many DeSci platforms regarding Data storage and Publishing so that you won’t be left out in any way.
We’re sure one or more of these platforms tickled your fancy. Which was it? Tell us in the comments. We would want to know.
Till we meet again in our next article🤗
