This page was created because I was looking up Unicode characters in the context of the Open Access Signalling project, while still being under the impressions of the #FutureCommons workshop in Madrid that I was following remotely today.
In the process, I learned that there are Unicode characters for traffic lights (🚥 and 🚦), whose Wikipedia pages (🚥 and 🚦) redirect to Traffic light, and that setting up a page name with these symbols (I had thought of Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access/Signalling OA-ness/🚥 or even WP:🚥 as a more visually appealing shortcut for WP:SIGNAL or the actual page name) requires admin privileges.
For such exploratory activities, I often just use MediaWiki's preview functionality (without saving anything), but then, I noticed this tweet, which invited more responses to an earlier tweet that had asked
If you could rebuild the scholarly communication system from scratch what would be your #1 priority? #FutureCommons
My original response had been
Apply the scientific method to scholarly communication. Make ongoing research discoverable & link back. #FCviz #FutureCommons
but I had actually made a list that was still open in my text editor, which I then started to translate using Unicode characters. The first of the remaining entries (some of them only half-baked) on the list was
Publish research as it happens, starting with your first question or idea.
While classifying my Unicode explorations as research in the sense of the above phrase is a stretch, I thought I might as well create the page (and probably rename it to FutureCommons right away), so here we go. -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 01:11, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Priorities for rebuilding the scholarly communication system from scratch edit
The following are some more tweets under both hashtags (#FCvis is used for visualization). From this, I also learned that the Unicode characters are implemented differently on Wikipedia and Twitter and probably many other platforms.
- Apply the scientific method to scholarly communication. Make ongoing research discoverable & link back.
- I actually think that applying the scientific method to scholarly communication might well show that making ongoing research discoverable and linking back would be a useful way to prioritize, but I have no idea to what extent this has actually been explored by anyone.
- Publish research as it happens, starting with your first question or idea.
- Publicly funded research should be immediately open by default, at all stages of the research process.
- Publicly funded research should have a public version history by default.
- Research should be shared in formats accessible to both humans and machines by default.
- Exceptions to the "human and machine readable" & "immediately open" & "publicly versioned" defaults require public justification.
- Balance increased openness with a reduction in bureaucracy to help win researchers over.
- Fund researchers and research infrastructure sustainably and let project-based funding become the exception.
- Assess research(ers), infrastructure et al. based on past performance, not based on essays about potential futures.
- Use real-life interactions to
- build communities
- seed digital ones
- Creativity is not limited to researchers. Yet effective research needs creative environments.
- ⛄🗿
- Published research should be citable in a way that is consistent across sources.
- Researchers should assist society - and vice versa - in addressing societal challenges.
- A: The research process would benefit from a healthy amount of randomness. B: What is "healthy" here? A: The answer to that would benefit from a healthy amount of research…