Orvium – Blockchain Platform for Scientific Publication Industry

Overview:

Orvium is a blockchain platform which is trying to change the current ecosystem of scientific publication industry. It is on the verge to transform the centralized system of scientific publication industry into completely decentralized one and making it an open platform. Using blockchain technology Orvium is eliminating the market inefficiencies which is currently existing and creating an open and trust worthy platform where all the records of research will be stored at minimum cost.

Problem:

Science has made human life easy and comfortable. The researches or the research community have worked hard to achieve this and are still working. But there are lot of problems faced by the research community. These problems include high publication cost, the copyrights are not held by the authors or researchers rather it is held by publishers, closed and non- transparent system of review process. Peer review system is the most important step where the manuscript is reviewed by some experts and then the verified manuscript is accepted for publication in a journal. This peer review system is time consuming and very expensive. More over these scientific reviewers do not get any recognition or reward for their work by the publishers which in turn results into poor quality research manuscripts coming out.

Solution:

Orvium is providing a solution to all the problems mentioned above by developing a decentralized system. It is providing the research community the platform to have full control over their publications and to keep the copyrights with them. All the papers, manuscripts, reviews, citations will be stored in to blockchain which will create proof of work and a full transparent system. The transactions will be handled by the smart contract technology on this platform. The publications cost will no longer be influenced by a single party and thus will reduce the publication cost by operating as an open platform. The publication delay will also be eliminated as the manuscript will be available as soon as they are put up on Orvium platform. The Orvium platform is providing a public trace to all the activities related to scientific publication starting from submitting a manuscript, peer reviews, published papers, copyright information etc.

ORV Token:

When the authors submit their manuscript, they offer ORV tokens for reviewing their work. This encourages scientific review community to review the manuscript. Thus, after successfully reviewing the manuscript the author rewards the peer review community in terms of ORV token. This provides recognition and rewards to the peer review community for their work. The tokens can also be used to use other services in the platform. Also, after publishing the manuscript the author will receive ORV tokens by the journals and readers. Every transaction in this platform will be driven by ORV token

Team:

• Manuel Martin - Senior Project Leader and Blockchain Expert
Manuel's career has been focused on supporting large collaborations through technological innovation. He has led critical data-management, big data and machine-learning initiatives for the largest and most complex scientific instrument ever built (CERN LHC). In addition, he has collaborated with NASA-JPL, Fermilab (U.S. Dept. of Energy) and GSI, among others.

• Antonio Romero - Technology Solution Architect
Antonio has led several big-data and machine-learning projects for the R&D partnership between CERN and multiple ICT market-leaders. His work - accelerating cutting-edge predictive-maintenance and machine-learning solutions - has fuelled ground-breaking operations and optimizations at the CERN accelerator complex. He has collaborated with other institutions such as Fermilab, GSI and EMBL-EBI.

• Roberto Rabasco - Application and Cloud Technology Expert
Over ten years’ experience working in the private sector for international companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Just Eat or Asos Ltd. Leading, designing and developing high-availability software solutions. Decentralized technologies advocate.

Token Matrix:

Token – ORV
Price – 1 ORV = 0.1 USD
Platform – Ethereum
Accepting – BTC/XBT, ETH, USD, CHF, EUR, SGD, DKK, GBP
Hard cap – 20,000,000 USD
Country – Estonia

Verdict:

Pros:
• The core team has good experiences and qualification related of IT and software background
• The project has 20 advisors from scientific, technical and business development background.
• The roadmap of the project has complete information about the tasks assigned to every quarter.
• There are no competitors for the project in this field.

Cons:
• The social media hype of this project is low. It has 1482 members on Telegram and around 1116 followers on Twitter.
• The MVP of this project is currently not available.
• The team members and advisors do not have any experience on the blockchain technology.
• The white paper is poorly structured.
• The partnerships of this project are not strong.

Website: https://orvium.io/
Whitepaper: https://orvium.docsend.com/view/nvr6ywj

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