Q/A Session About Orvium Open Source and Decentralized Framework

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What is the Orvium project trying to accomplish?

Orvium was born in relation to the scientific publishing Industry. Scientific publication Industry is one of the highest income generating Industries as the publishers have created a triple-pay system. High cost involves in publication make barrier to growth of scientific knowledge that necessary to revolutionize the world. Not only the cost, there are several other issues diminishing the courage of research community. Some of them are as follows.

Researchers and scientist do the researches but copyright Is acquired by the publishers
Lack of rewards and recognition for reviewers
Increasing of low quality journals

Orvium has been developed as a solution for those issues. Accordingly, Orvium is the world’s first open sourced, decentralized blockchain framework designed to manage scientific publications and associate data. It is aimed to be the leading publication platform for the researchers by offering the maximum benefit of science to the society. It combines blockchain technology, smart contracts, decentralized storage, cloud computing and machine learning.

Why is copyright and licensing important to authors?

Copyright/license is an intellectual property which grants the authority to use research content commercially. In existing model, the publisher gets the copyright on research content, which has developed by the research community. Orvium gives the full control on license and copyright to the author/researcher. Because of that they get the opportunity to make decisions on printing, distributing, translating and re-using of content. As an example a researcher can decide the sales channel for his content.

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Why is open source development important to Orvium?

Orvium has been developed on cutting edge technologies. So it is necessary to adjust with rapid and continuous changes in those technologies. Orvium team believes that it is necessary to promote public involvement in the platform. So they try to develop the platform to establishing collaboration and funding for research community. Because of that they will ensure that the results are open source and publically available. Open source coding will facilitate for the technology evolution.

What was the World Wide Web initially designed for?

World Wide Web was originally designed to support automatic information sharing between world-wide scientists. Currently it has been using other Industries as well.

What is machine learning and why is it important for Orvium?

Machine learning is the use of artificial intelligence in platform that enables the platform to learn from data. Machine learning is helpful in the platform in several aspects.
Enables advance analysis to enhance research lifecycle
Helpful to generate improved scientific production such as improved metrics
Unlocks valuable insights

What benefits do authors have by using the Orvium platform?

Publication and access cost are not influenced by any party.
Ensure that the peer reviews are continuous and transparent
Enable the Multi-author reviews
Ensure that the submitted documents are quickly available for public.

What is zero delay publication?

Zero delay publication means that the submitted documents are quickly available online for any user. As well those are opened for download, peer review, tweet or online comments.

Does Orvium allow for Peer-Review within their platform?

Yes. Orvium allows for peer reviews. It also enables multi-author reviews.

Describe the current research cycle.

Research cycle can be summarized for four main phases. Each phase is interdependent.
Idea Discovery
Finding a fundamental of new idea or identify problem to be addressed
Approval and research finding
Refer to the plan and collect sources
Conduct research
Using of theories for sorting and shifting information
Dissemination of result
Ensuring the findings are properly distributed.

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