Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

Editorial Facilitation & Communication of Team Research

An Editorial Facilitator who is a subject specialist convenes discussions with team members to review and interpret their findings in light of the latest published evidence; (s)he writes and continually updates a Living Narrative based on these discussions, citing team-reviewed incremental findings and posting openly for community review.

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Planning

| Updated: 9 Dec 2022

Organization:

Rapid Science

Keywords:
Collaboration, Early Sharing, Editorial, Rewards

Project Goals

Demonstrate that sharing/discussing early findings among cross-team and cross disciplinary project teams can improve the outcomes and reproducibility of basic and translational research
Reduce the burden of collaborative open research by introducing the new role of Editorial Facilitator in team-based research
Model a rewarding and challenging alternative career path for PhD-trained scientists
Facilitate the early release, accessibility, and context of research findings to the larger research community
Piece together the technology and procedures needed for sharing, tracking, and crediting collaborative open research
Provide evidence (or case studies) that a reward system based on collaborative open activities can be a viable alternative to publication-based rewards

Deliverables

Collaborative workspace built on existing technologies for researcher discussions; guidelines and best practices derived from that implementation
Editorial Facilitator role description, guidelines, and assessment of outcomes of the work
Evidence derived from feedback and assessment from the research group on the pilots
Design of the “Living Narrative” that includes preprint snapshots describing researchers’ shared outputs thus far and their context in the project’s domain
Preprints in Progress – preprints of outputs capturing work as it progresses including incremental and null results along with the context necessary to understand and build upon the work
Model a credit and reward system based on researchers’ engagement in the collaborative workspace, their co-authorship on the Living Narrative (an open guide to the research field), and sharing early findings with the community

What's Needed

Technology that tracks researchers’ collaborative activities, e.g., discussing, reviewing, replicating, posting early findings
Collaborative workspace for sharing, viewing, discussing, and reviewing early findings
Funded research team willing/eager to share findings openly, both within the team and with the community
Editorial Facilitator with editorial skills and subject matter expertise on research team’s topic, e.g., a journal editor repurposed to work with the team