Creating reputable, citable sources of information and methodologies seamlessly within a project environment: the SOKI wiki.

Authors (order to be determined): A. Constable, J. Melbourne Thomas

Destined for MEASO Research Topic in Froniters

Outline:

1. Competing challenges of publication, recognition and developmental work

(Jess)

Why have this wiki?

MEASO Science Network

Glossary of confusing terms

In this paper we show how a wiki environment can be used to develop a publicly trusted repository of knowledge and information that can help underpin the primary science literature, provide opportunities for credit for formative and foundational work without having to clutter the primary literature, and have a simpler means of validating information, methods and processes that can give surety to the public and stakeholders of the veracity of scientific work.

2. Logic and layout of SOKI

(Andrew)

Types of Content related to Context

Knowledge and Information

Knowledge ( (Species profiles, Habitats, Stakeholder views, Governance, Culture)

Review (compilation of papers, notes, blogs, etc. that updates the state of a topic)

Synthesis (opinion, pitches for research, assessments)

Scientific collaboration, processes and procedures

Methods (field, lab, other)

Software Tools

Models (mathematical models, parameters, links to code - GitHub repositories, reviews, descriptions)

Data (links to data repositories and descriptions of how to access them, issues to deal with etc.)

Research Collaboration (international coordination, project collaboration, papers, workshops/conferences/symposia)

Teaching (course coordination, use of SOKI as an assessment option)

SOKI Work Flow

Status of Pages

Pages in the SOKI wiki contain the following information:

• A page title
• A page status immediately beneath the title and indicated by a coloured box

The following six status categories denote the state of SOKI pages according to the peer review and publishing process

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Content for this page has not yet been fully completed

AWAITING REVIEW

Content is complete, page is awaiting peer review

IN REVIEW

Page is currently under peer review

IN PRESS

Page has been peer reviewed and is awaiting DOI assignment

PUBLISHED

Page has assigned a DOI and has been published

PRIVATE

Page is not publicly viewable

• The page content, defined according to a set of standard templates
• A citation which defines how the page should be cited

SOKI Management

Governance, Editorial Board and Site Administration

3. Examples

(Andrew, Jess)

A tour of SOKI and its functionality can be viewed in a recording of a presentation to the ICED Krill Modelling Group (here)

Example organisation of Biota (similar for Methods etc.)

Species profiles: MEASO Biota: 5-Penguins

Field methods: CPR - Continuous Plankton Recorder Surveys

Model development: Model description: NetLogo Cartoon Model - Kerguelen Axis

4. A new form of publishing

(Andrew)

Important for literature to convey quality science (Aksnes et al 2019 and a long history of bibliometric publications over more than 6 decades):

• solidity & plausibility
• originality and novelty (which can include non-significant results)
• scientific value (which may include repeat experiments, analyses, validation)
• societal value and relevance

Currently absent from the public domain:

• Demand for high impact publications (and the editorial constraints therein) undermines the publication of preparatory materials (effort does not match reward)
• Little opportunity to simply update a review by adding just what is new since the last review
• Unless a reader is an expert in the field, there is little assurance that authors have used cited papers correctly: no cited papers have external summaries or conclusions accepted by the original authors or validated by suitable experts)
• Code underpinning research papers is largely unreviewed during the peer-review process, difficult to find code and its internal/external validation
• Little opportunity for publishing methods with sufficient detail for a new user to be able to apply the method reliably or for updates to the methods as refinements are developed
• Very difficult to identify how valuable papers are for particular tasks (but see ScienceBrief)

Enabling validated content that underpins primary literature and enhances its value:

Wiki Community Guidelines ("Don't be evil")

Content management & development

Peer review

Seamlessly integrate development and release of pages with natural work flows in a project.

Links across different repositories, underpinned by peer-review process:

5. Discussion

(Jess and Andrew)