wiki.cofundos.org - About

2008-07-15 17:25:42

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Research funding decisions and research evaluation are currently almost exclusively based on peer-review. Peer-review is well suited to ensure quality, but helps little to achieve impact. ParticipatoryResearch adds the stakeholder dimension to research funding and evaluation. In an ideal world those research projects should get funded which will ultimately benefit its stakeholders most. Individuals (such as peer reviewers) can often hardly realistically access the potential benefit of a certain research proposal. Better results can be achieved by relying on the intelligence of a whole community by employing prediction markets (being the best general institutions we know for aggregating information). In such a prediction market for research ideas stakeholders bet or vote about which research results will benefit them most. The highest-ranked research ideas according to the stakeholder benefit should ultimately get funded.

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Research funding decisions and research evaluation are currently almost exclusively based on peer-review. Peer-review is well suited to ensure quality, but helps little to achieve impact. ParticipatoryResearch adds the stakeholder dimension to research funding and evaluation. In an ideal world those research projects should get funded which will ultimately benefit its stakeholders most. Individuals (such as peer reviewers) often fail to realistically access the benefit of a research proposal. Better results can be achieved by relying on prediction markets (being the best general institutions we know for aggregating information). In such a prediction market for research ideas stakeholders bet or vote about which research results will benefit them most. The highest-ranked research ideas according to the stakeholder benefit should ultimately get funded.

2008-07-15 15:21:43

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A first step towards this goal was made with Cofundos – a market for open-source software R&D. Continue here to a brief overview on the ParticipatoryResearch concept.

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A first step towards this goal was made with Cofundos – a market for open-source software R&D.

2008-07-15 15:21:25

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ParticipatoryResearch initiative launched
This ParticipatoryResearch initiative launched by AKSW aims at developing and promoting the concept of stakeholder-driven research. Goals are to (1) develop a prediction market model for research funding, (2) implement a Web platform for organising this market and the participatory research process, (3) persuade research funding agencies to use this platform for managing a part [...]

Article about Cofundos in this years OpenSourceJahrbuch edition
This years edition of the renowned German OpenSourceJahrbuch contains an overview article about Cofundos (in German).

Interview regarding Cofundos.org
The Semantic Web School just published an interview with Cofundos founder Sören Auer on Cofundos and the vision of participatory R&D. Read the interview here.

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Semantic-Web.at Interview on DBpedia and UMBEL
Semantic-Web.at published an interview titled “DBpedia, UMBEL & the Future Web?s Ecology” with Sören Auer and Mike Bergman. Read more at: http://blog.semantic-web.at/2008/11/10/umbel-dbpedia-futureweb-ecology-interview/

DBpedia 3.1 breaks 100 million triples barrier
Today, we released DBpedia 3.1. As always in the past years, the size of Wikipedia increased a lot over the past months. The new extraction contains 116,7 million triples, marking an increase of 27% over the previous version. The OpenLink team and the research group around Chris Bizer helped us to produce the release. Apart from [...]

DBpedia 3.0 Release
Hereby, we announce the availability of the DBpedia 3.0 final release. Most notably, multi-language support was improved, new linked data sets added, and extraction code improved. Compared to the 3.0 release candidate, a number of extraction framework and data set bugs reported at our sourceforge.net bug tracker were fixed. Overall, the combined download size of all [...]

2008-07-15 05:11:29

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2008-07-15 00:24:07

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Research funding decisions and research evaluation are currently almost exclusively based on peer-review. Peer-review is well suited to ensure quality, but helps little to achieve impact. ParticipatoryResearch adds the stakeholder dimension to research funding and evaluation. In an ideal world those research projects should get funded which will ultimately benefit its stakeholders most. Individuals (such as peer reviewers) often fail to realistically access the benefit of a research proposal. Better results can be achieved by relying on prediction markets (being the best general institutions we know for aggregating information). In such a prediction market for research ideas stakeholders bet or vote about which research results will benefit them most. The highest-ranked research ideas according to the stakeholder benefit should ultimately get funded.

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Research funding decisions and research evaluation are currently almost exclusively based on peer-review. Peer-review is well suited to ensure quality, but helps little to achieve impact. ParticipatoryResearch adds the stakeholder dimension to research funding and evaluation. In an ideal world those research projects should get funded which will ultimately benefit its stakeholders most. Individuals (such as peer reviewers) often fail to realistically access the benefit of a research proposal. Better results will be achieved by relying on prediction markets (being the best general institutions we know for aggregating information). In such a prediction market for research ideas stakeholders bet or vote about which research results will benefit them most. The highest-ranked research proposals according to the stakeholder benefit should ultimately get funded.

2008-07-15 00:21:14

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Research funding decisions and research evaluation are currently almost exclusively based on peer-review. Peer-review is well suited to ensure quality, but helps little to achieve impact. ParticipatoryResearch adds the stakeholder dimension to research funding and evaluation. In an ideal world those research projects should get funded which will ultimately benefit its stakeholders most. Individuals (such as peer reviewers) often fail to realistically access the benefit of a research proposal. Better results will be achieved by relying on prediction markets (being the best general institutions we know for aggregating information). In such a prediction market for research ideas stakeholders bet or vote about which research results will benefit them most. The highest-ranked research proposals according to the stakeholder benefit should ultimately get funded.

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Research funding decisions and research evaluation are currently almost exclusively based on peer-review. Peer-review is well suited to ensure quality, but helps little to achieve impact. Participatory Research adds the stakeholder dimension to research funding and evaluation. In an ideal world those research projects should get funded which will ultimately benefit its stakeholders most. Individuals (such as peer reviewers) often fail to realistically access the benefit of a research proposal. Better results will be achieved by relying on prediction markets (being the best general institutions we know for aggregating information). In such a prediction market for research ideas stakeholders bet or vote about which research results will benefit them most. The highest-ranked research proposals according to the stakeholder benefit should ultimately get funded.

2008-07-15 00:06:19

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In order to establish the ParticipatoryResearch concept, we aim at (1) developing a prediction market model for research funding, (2) implementing a Web platform for organising this market and the participatory research process, (3) persuading research funding agencies to use this platform for managing a part of their research portfolio.

2008-07-14 23:47:26

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Research funding decisions and research evaluation are currently almost exclusively based on peer-review. Peer-review is well suited to ensure quality, but helps little to achieve impact. Participatory Research adds the stakeholder dimension to research funding and evaluation. In an ideal world those research projects should get funded which will ultimately benefit its stakeholders most. Individuals (such as peer reviewers) often fail to realistically access the benefit of a research proposal. Better results will be achieved by relying on prediction markets (being the best general institutions we know for aggregating information). In such a prediction market for research ideas stakeholders bet or vote about which research results will benefit them most. The highest-ranked research proposals according to the stakeholder benefit should ultimately get funded.
The ParticipatoryResearch concept is based on the following principles:

Transparency. Research is currently affected by various information flow barriers. Increasing transparency and openness with regard to research ideas, evaluations, reviews, research progress reports and interfaces between research results will help to remove information flow barriers and ultimately make research more efficient.
Community intelligence. Funding decisions as well as success assessment should be primarily based on the judgment of a large stakeholder community.
Big impacts with small steps. Conceiving and realising bright ideas does often not require hundred man-year developments or multi-million amounts of funding. Their realisation can be achieved by bringing together innovative ideas with clearly defined features and requirements based on direct stakeholder involvement.

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Research funding decisions and research evaluation are currently almost exclusively based on peer-review. Peer-review is well suited to ensure quality, but helps little to achieve impact. Participatory Research adds the stakeholder dimension to research funding and evaluation. In an ideal world those research projects should get funded which will ultimately benefit its stakeholders most. Individuals (such as peer reviewers) often fail to realistically access the benefit of a research proposal. Better results will be achieved by relying on prediction markets (being the best general institutions we know for aggregating information). In such a prediction market for research ideas stakeholders bet or vote about which research results will benefit them most. The highest-ranked research proposals according to the stakeholder benefit should get funded.
The Participatory Research concept is based on the following principles:

Transparency. Research funding and
Big impacts can be achieved in small steps. Conceiving and realising bright ideas does often not require hundred man-year developments or multi-million amounts of funding. Their realisation can be achieved by bringing together innovative ideas with clearly defined features and requirements based on direct stakeholder involvement.

2008-07-14 23:33:36

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