{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/issues/716","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/peerlibrary/peerlibrary","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/issues/716/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/issues/716/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/issues/716/events","html_url":"https://github.com/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/issues/716","id":177822609,"number":716,"title":"State of the project","user":{"login":"herwix","id":4061394,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4061394?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix","html_url":"https://github.com/herwix","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/herwix/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2016-09-19T15:50:52Z","updated_at":"2016-09-21T18:12:59Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hey you all, \r\n\r\njust wanted to ask, whether you are still working on this project or if not, why not? It seemed like you had a very ambitious but awesome idea :) I am a phd student, frustrated with current tools for capturing, testing and sharing knowledge and I have some ideas of how we could make it better. Probably similar to you I don't have that much time to invest (doing too many things in parallel), but if people come together great things can be achieved. Are you still interested in the project or working on something similar? Maybe it would be interesting to talk if not for collaborating at least exchanging ideas :) \r\n\r\nCheers, Alex"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/issues/comments/248696084","html_url":"https://github.com/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/issues/716#issuecomment-248696084","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/issues/716","id":248696084,"user":{"login":"mitar","id":585279,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/585279?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar","html_url":"https://github.com/mitar","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mitar/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-09-21T18:12:59Z","updated_at":"2016-09-21T18:12:59Z","body":"> I hope that I could work on something similar to PeerLibrary as part of my phd though and maybe get a few students to write a master thesis on it as well.\r\n\r\nWhat are research contributions you think you can do? ;-) I have some ideas about that as well, but at the end it was still hard to sell it as a computer science novel research. Maybe one can find later on some smaller segments to do research on, when the system is up an running and you can collect some data, but for CS it was not a good match.\r\n\r\n> As a first step, I would want to focus on a decentralized blockchain app \r\n\r\nBlockchain is really unnecessary here. You would make your life unnecessary harder, make app less easy to use, less responsive (waiting for data to be committed), you would be building on top of moving target and ecosystem. But the main question is: why. What is a threat model you are trying to address by using a decentralized storage system?\r\n\r\nI think challenges for such apps are elsewhere and working on a decentralized app would just defocus you from those challenges.\r\n\r\n[I wrote about this a bit](http://mitar.tnode.com/post/80878694215/proactive-federation-of-commons-is-better-than) in the past. You should maybe read few other posts on my blog about it.\r\n\r\nYou could check out the [beagle project](https://github.com/BeagleLab/voyage). They were working on a decentralized browser extension to discuss academic papers.\r\n\r\n> Do you think that would be a good idea or should I rather start from scratch?\r\n\r\nSo current code is for old Meteor. It could probably be reused, but you anyway probably want to tightly couple your system with user experience of your system. I do not think you can really reuse code directly, but you could definitely look into how I am doing things.\r\n\r\nFor annotations, I would really suggest that you use [hypothes](https://hypothes.is/) annotator code, so that you stay compatible with the ecosystem, and store annotations using [open annotation standard](http://www.openannotation.org/). Also look into [ContentMine](http://contentmine.org/) for an example for coding. I think it would be much more useful to the whole ecosystem if you maybe build and work with others than trying to build something from scratch.\r\n\r\n> Edit: P.S.: I reflected on your comment and project again and felt that I wanted to leave a more personal note. Maybe it is more for me because your project reminds me of my own, but maybe it is also helpful to you. It's dangerously philosophical but I guess that's how I am ;)\r\nYour project reminded me of the incredible things we humans have achieved and will achieve - together. Just thinking about the knowledge and insights in all those papers written over generations and how a few people can come together to help make it accessible to each and every one of us is simply mesmerizing. And it is just so inspiring to see people like you trying to make a difference and stand in for what you deep in your heart believe in. I know it's a difficult balancing act that is different for every one. Don't beat yourself up over not completing everything you dreamed of or feel yourself pressured to do anything you don't want or have the time to. A project like yours can never be complete. Life or happiness in life is most of all a mindset. There is nothing you have to do - it's enough to simply be. Just know that people are out there who appreciate the work you have already done and are working on similar ideas... so if you have the time or simply feel like it there will always be a place for you :)\r\n\r\nThanks. I really appreciate it. I would just extend this to the whole PeerLibrary team, not just me. :-)"}}
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