A decentralized framework for cultivating research lifecycle transparency

Wei Jeng, Shih-Hung Wang, Hung-Wei Chen, Po-Wei Huang, Yu-Jen Chen and Hsu-Chun Hsiao

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: Research transparency has been advocated as a key means of addressing the current crisis of reproducibility. This article proposes an enhanced form of research transparency, termed lifecycle transparency. Over the entire lifecycle of a research effort, this approach captures the syntactical contexts of artifacts and stakeholders, such as timestamps, agreements, and/or dependency requirements for completing each research phase. For example, such contexts might include when, where, and from whom patients’ consent and institutional review board approvals were received before a clinical trial was carried out. However, as existing open-science tools are often dedicated to certain research phases or disciplines, and thus insufficient to support lifecycle transparency, we propose a novel decentralized framework to serve as a common medium for interaction among open-science tools, and produces irrefutable and immutable proofs of progress that can be verified automatically.

Date: 2020
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