Orvium – A Transparent Decentralized Platform – where Science meets Blockchain
If it wasn’t for science, how would this world look like?
Scientific research and its publication models have proved to have many limitations today. Even though this industry is known to be massive (we’re talking about billions of dollars), there is still not enough money invested in conducting research. This does not only affect the scientific community but as science is a significant aspect of our life, it can represent a negative impact on everyone – take the healthcare sector, for instance.
If we don’t invest the money (which we already have) in medical research, we can't find the right treatment for a particular disease. Orvium, a publication platform, has the mission to eliminate these inefficiencies of the scientific publishing.
Orvium – A transparent, universal, unbiased and accessible science
Blockchain technologies would support the Orvium project and as decentralised storage, it would provide a thoroughly public and trustworthy record of publication the process at minimal costs. Therefore, science is made more transparent and open to everyone to access, as each piece of relevant information about publishing, like journal submissions or peer reviews, would be registered and stored on the blockchain. Orvium would be the centre of activity for researchers, articles, publishers, scientists, authors and so on.
The Business Model
To support the global research, Orvium would establish an unbiased, comprehensive and competitive business model. This would enable a fair recognition, and it would also ensure that all participants would get their deserved reward (authors, peer reviewers, publishers, editors, etc.).
Some of the Advantages of the Platform
- Zero delay publication: scientific work is available from the moment it is submitted with a time-stamped proof of the existence
- Full traceability: publicly track of all the activity that is kept in the blockchain
- Full Research Data and Process: Orvium empowers scientists to share their complete studies by making their research data history available. This will increase scientific validity.
- Cost Effective Journals: ORV enables creating and managing journals to become low cost (viability and sustainability)
Decentralized Autonomous Journals
On the platform, journals will be controlled by smart contracts, which allow open and transparent management. These come with some rules, made publicly available and defined in the smart contract. Based on these rules and contributions, users can earn revenue, by offering ORV tokens and receiving Journal Tokens.
Platform Architecture and Components
Orvium relies on a solid infrastructure and to support their project solution, they plan to use the following components:
• Blockchain
• Fronted applications: Modern web applications, mobile clients
• Backend applications: API, workers and Microservices
• Storage: NoSQL/ SQL Databases
To conclude, Ovrium proves to be a solid project, which offers low maintenance, highly flexible and cost-effective way to manage reliable scientific literature, but it also offers a business path to authors, publishers and editors.
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