Aletheia
Aletheia
https://aletheia-foundation.io/
Aletheia is a decentralised open access publishing platform for scientific research.
In short, Aletheia is software for getting science published and into the hands of everyone, for free. It's a decentralised and distributed database used as a publishing platform for scientific research.
So, Aletheia is software. But software without people is nothing. To comprehensively answer the question what is Aletheia, Aletheia is software surrounded by a community of people who want to change the world through open access to scientific knowledge.
For a more in depth explanation, Aletheia is an Ethereum Blockchain application utilising IPFS for decentralised storage that anyone can upload documents to, download documents from, that also handles the academic peer review process. The application runs on individual PCs, all forming part of the IPFS database. This gives us an open source platform that cannot be bought out by the large publishers (and any derivitive works must also be open source) that should also be hard to take down due to the database being spread across the globe in multiple legal jurisdictions. Aletheia is designed to be a resilient platform run transparently by the community, not some black box corporation or editorial board, meaning all users can see the decisions Aletheia is making and have a stake in that decision making process if they so desire. By this nature, Aletheia is decentralised, it has no key person risk. Should the core group who invented Aletheia dissapear Aletheia won't cease to exist, it will continue to be run by the community. The community moderates content through various mechanisms (peer review, reputation scores etc.,) to ensure quality of content.
Download
https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-app/archive/master.zip
Categories
- Biology:genetics
- Biology:health-and-medicine
- Database:administration
- Database:application
- Education:adult
- Education:elementary
- Education:language
- Education:library
- Education:online
- Education:online-libraries
- Education:secondary
- Geography:meteorology
- Live-communications:online-journaling
- Mathematics:statistics
- Programming-language:javascript
- Runs-on:GNU/Linux
- Runs-on:OS X
- Science:artificial-intelligence
- Science:astronomy
- Science:biology
- Science:chemistry
- Science:engineering
- Science:geography
- Science:geology
- Science:physics
- Science:scientific-visualization
- Science:psychology
- Use:editing
- Use:education
- Use:mathematics
- Use:printing
- Use:reading
- Use:science
- Use:storage
- Works-with:database
- Works-with:text
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Kade Morton (Cypath) | Project lead |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Anyone | contact@aletheia-foundation.io | |
| Community | Forum | https://aletheiafoundation.slack.com |
| Python (Ref) | https://pypi.org/project/aletheia |
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