With increasing commodification of research come challenges to connection, communication, and research integrity. ATProto's open protocol, extensibility, and large uptake by researchers provides a unique moment of opportunity to reassert community control in the commons, and specifically in processes of science publishing and communication. But is merely building new technology on open protocols enough? This panel will explore how challenges facing the broader atproto ecosystem are mirrored in its open science applications.
Sensemaking systems demos from Seams, ViewSift, Skysquare and AI for science demos from Agentis and Coordination Network
We'll explore how to create win-wins for both research organisations and their researchers by using the Atmosphere to bridge the institution's knowledge (formal, slow, siloed) and the personal knowledge networks (informal, fast, distributed) of their faculty and students. The central idea is to use each team's standard.site-enabled website as scaffolding to add value to the team members' Atmosphere activity (publishing, microblogging, discovering and curating knowledge, etc.) and to support cross-protocol community.
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