I'd be perfectly happy with having papers as Jupyter Notebooks
Living Papers: A Language Toolkit for Augmented Scholarly Communication
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#12This is very nice. It's a good tool for academics wanting to engage with the work of other academics. I think, however, the biggest issue with scholarly communication right now has to do with how inaccessible the language and techniques tend to be for the average person. Of course, a highly technical paper needs all those details. But I believe we should be looking at requiring authors to maybe make an "extended abst…
What is missing is innovation in the space traditionally occupied by textbooks. We need new forms for digesting recent results and making them useful for answering the kinds of questions asked by people with different levels of training in a field.
Re: Living Papers: A Language Toolkit for Augmented Scholarly Communication
#13From the abstract, it sounds more like a toolkit for "Interactive / Hypermedia" papers. The paper itself is still dead. I was hoping more for "Living" as in "active, uncertain, will grow over time". A toolkit for expressing the research from beginning to the end - the state of the world as you understand it, highlighting the key uncertainties and experiments, and mechanisms for viewing the history. As a motivating ex…
There are people doing a bit of this work with methods journals and pre-registering hypotheses.
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