User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/COASP 2010/Overview

Properties of wikis that are of interest for scholarly publishing

• Open Access by default (non-open licenses are possible)
  • Fine-grained configurability of user rights, thereby allowing for any peer review model (and any business model).
• In comparison to paper-based scholarly communication:
  • Web-native: Basically anything on the web can be embedded or otherwise directly linked to
  • Contextual links are the central pillar
  • Version control built in (along with time stamps, naturally), thus allowing stable releases and updatability, while establishing priority
• Several popular wikis are open source and have been tested under high load
• The more open research becomes, the more diverse will the acts of science publishing become. Wikis exist for all aspects of the research cycle (except for funding decisions, for cultural reasons)