 Let me first begin with a well first. Let me thank Saki for for inviting inviting us back again this year We were we were we attended and presented at at last year's conference Artifacts is living proof of the value of this meeting both for networking purposes generally But also for specific collaborations and partnerships that come out of it by virtue of The collaboration we have with the Max Planck digital library that James just alluded to the collaboration we have with Amit Chesmele from Prenogio and the integration that he'll demonstrate shortly With their melda application in our system and certainly it's always good to be here with with Good good former good friends and former colleague waifu Wong from IES group Let me let me ask for show of hands two questions a show of hands Familiarity with artifacts and what we do what we're about. Who's familiar? Okay, good. So most mostly no so this this will this will be news for most of you second question or collection of questions How many of you? author papers cite the works of others use Google Docs have used Mendeley and and and Have submitted a paper for for publication. Could I just see a show of hands there? All right, perfect. That's even better artifacts is for you So So what is artifacts? What does it do? What are we about? We're about enabling secure and immediate access to research material Accelerating the research process while ensuring researchers receive Credit for their work. We are very researcher centric at artifacts We deliver the benefits for both the creators of science and their institutions the institutions that support the scientific enterprise That are in this scientific information value chain by providing access to previously hidden research findings and giving researchers credit for their work or actually enabling researchers to give each other credit for their work Secondly by allowing scientists to do three Fundamentally important things first establish proof of existence authorship and confirm provenance at any time For any type of work Protect manage research material while concurrently facilitating knowledge sharing and Thirdly to provide and receive valid breakproof attribution and Assignment of credit at any point for any research output Now earlier this this morning waifu referenced Eugene Garfield who is Who has since passed away, but Eugene with whom I worked with for many years and Essentially was part of the team that that built and created the web of science Eugene was was famous for quoting Thomas Merton and The quote included the phrase that citations are the currency of science and By that what he meant was that that citations are used acknowledgement of prior work That one's current work is built upon should be properly and appropriately acknowledged recognized and explicitly Express common practice and scholarship today Well one thing that Eugene never said and by the way he is credited by Sergei Bryn for the page rank and Larry page for the page rank algorithm, right and And so Eugene not only had a significant impact in the field of science and scholarship But it's essentially what the operating mechanism that drove the evolution And growth of Google and other and other similar systems Well one thing that dr. Garfield never said Was citations should only be able to be given to some things And that's where artifacts focuses So what we do is we expand the transparency of research findings by making them quickly and easily accessible and sightable so the model or metaphor that we use for this information space is is the following that Historically and today the primary zone of discoverability is this information space. That's out here Essentially the published literature and of what's published What's indexed now any of you who have who have submitted a paper for publication? You you may have experienced having to go through a series of submissions in serial fashion to get your paper published If you're fortunate enough to be published Indeed are you published in a journal that's indexed by some of the major commercial indexes that are used in academia namely? The web of science is one Scopus as another or you may get index and picked up by Google's Google scholar, right? But then again, if you're not indexed your work can't be found But what I would what I was a hazard to say here is that this information space is Well-mined it's well-served there is a massive ecosystem of commercial and open access non-non-for-profit Organizations that make published and indexed information available. That's wonderful. That's not where artifacts is focused artifacts is focused on providing access to this to the broad remit of information and Data and results and all of the different scientific and research artifacts using the lowercase Version of that word that are generated in the research process and by collaborating with Max Planck and the Blocksburg Consortium's Blocksburg trusted infrastructure enabling researchers to transact immutable proof of existence transactions on that ledger That is managed by that distributed network that you just saw described, but also importantly enabling control over with whom that information is shared and when it's shared and Then in turn when it's shared to enable that information to become sightable So suddenly work that if we're all participating in the same research team And we have this wonderful grant from the German government to conduct a project Each of us is working in different capacities. We have different expertise different different specialties Jens spoke of that very eloquently in his talk earlier this morning, right? Each of us are contributing in different ways. We want to be recognized and acknowledged for a contribution What artifacts does is enable Contributors and the nature of their contributions to be specified and included as metadata That are embedded in a proof of existence Transaction that is recorded onto the Blocksburg blockchain and again Enabling each of us or collectively as a project to share our work with whomever we want when when when we want or When our principal investigator authorizes us to share the work, right? There are some controls there. So what we're building is essentially an index of this information this information landscape and we believe That by enabling disclosure of these results this vast repository is both indexed and readily discoverable The creators can receive attribution that formally count toward research or reputation That's important for any of you in academia today All right, I've I've contributed to a project I've received citations to my data set my methodology my experimental design Etc at my pre-print Am I going to get credit for that? Well academic institutions and the incentive structures and institutions change slowly, but they are changing and Just recently within the last six months. We've spoken with three institutions who have explicitly said to us You know what we really like about artifacts is it enables us? to To tangibly recognize and give credit to our researchers For works other than publications and we've been they've been saying to us and we've been saying to them We want to give them that kind of credit Finally, there's a system that enables that and thirdly here. We believe we're we're not up We're not intending to compete With a high value of this information The in the information content that's in the published literature, right? We're not competing with that What artifacts is doing is we believe is quite complimentary and eventually this index we foresee that this index Will be joined together with the indices That very Capably cover published literature, but as I said earlier those indices don't Index all the published literature. So again if you publish and you're not indexed you can't be found unless you happen to attend a conference Or you're from a third or fourth world country and you can't afford to attend an international conference and By the way, no one went to the library to actually pull a Print edition off the shelves to find your publication all right, so The complementarity of artifacts in Blocksburg, right? So what we're doing off-chain what we're doing what we're doing on-chain No It's a it's important I think to point out a little bit of workflow here and I'll have another workflow slide in a moment that The content comes becomes known to our system in multiple ways One of which is By researchers who use our platform. We're a live platform and system. We've been available since March of 20 March of 2018 And we're continuing to evolve that platform. Does it has does it have everything that our envision that our vision? Envisions yet. No, we're continuing on that path But the content becomes known to our system by researchers who interface with our with our platform Also via the tools that they're using and you'll see Jason Rollins a colleague of mine with artifacts demonstrate Momentarily some of the latest implementations that are brand new for us to announce here at the conference this week And also of course through API's So direct implementations that we have with third-party systems and tools and API's that we've that we've built to interoperate with systems What was just spoken of earlier by James? So we have in her up. We're building interoperability with a with a journal and their Publishing peer review slash distribution content partner to provide these services. So what do we do? What do we do off-chain? Well, the magic that we do off-chain is is pretty is pretty basic Metadata management Artifacts does not need to house or control or store your content Now today admittedly when we hash a file of yours and we add and we add Automagically some metadata to that file and any metadata that you've added to that file and transact it onto the Blocksburg ledger today We need to instant Instantaneously hold that file to hash it right. So that's that's today Roll forward in three to five months and we'll complete the development work that we're doing that will enable us to do localized hashing so the hashing can be done Within your operating environment within your within your workplace So we obviously know we that that's a step that we have to develop and and it's a natural one one where any Organize some organizations are not going to want their data files to leave their organization Even if it's to a party that they should they believe they should trust such as artifacts that file has still left their environment and They have to believe that that no one that it's secure and that we dismiss it and delete it after processing it So that's a step that that we have yet to build but the on the on-chain work The the on-chain work and and that heavy lifting if you will Comes comes to us by virtue of of the Blocksburg Consortium platform that you've seen James described So how researchers benefit from this from this from this collaboration between artifacts in Blocksburg? Well first the consortium provides that trusted and decentralized infrastructure The question was asked of James earlier. Are you a profit or nonprofit in their case? They're a nonprofit in our case. We are we are a for-profit organization It's important for us as a for-profit organization to transact these data in such a way that they are Placed on a trusted network that is not controlled by us that is accessible by the global research community And as you heard James describe That Blocksburg Consortium Information network is accessible to all researchers not just those that are affiliated with consortium members Secondly our smart contracts embed metadata making these works discoverable They embed the metadata that that we can that we can infer but they but the smart contract also embeds metadata That you as a researcher as a creator of that work Include with with that file. Why would you do that? Well, you do that when you've decided to make your work discoverable by others and you want it to be discovered And how do we humans find things through keyword searches and other mechanisms? Integration with the Edmund repository makes the that makes these were excitable now The Edmund repositories a specific repository that's used within the Max Planck institutes It is one of many resources across the institutes where research outputs Are are are stored and made accessible to the broader research community? The benefit to the Max Planck researchers of course here is that we have interoperability with a core Repository that they use that is an example of many integrations that you'll see us that you'll see us deliver going forward because Each of you who are conducting research want to your your institution your employer the Organization that is funding your research is going to want your your work your work products to find their way into an accessible place Source files remain within the researchers control choosing which works to share and with whom notwithstanding the caveat that I that I just spoke of We have easy onboarding for first-timers posting to the blockchain right well I'm old enough to remember when when the internet didn't exist for the general public and I first did something on the internet, right? For those of you that didn't have that a chronological opportunity Many of you in this room have had a first experience with a blockchain But you're the minority of the research community out there most researchers haven't done anything on blockchain and reality is from our perspective We don't necessarily need or want researchers to care or necessarily see The blockchain aspect of this we provide transparency and they can see these transactions and so forth what researchers will care about is The trusted infrastructure that houses these transactions and again, that's Blocksburg How many of you are familiar with orchid How many of you have orchid IDs if you don't have an orchid ID and you're a researcher and you publish I Recommend you get one and that's not just because I'm a co-founder of orchid But our integration with orchid Enables once CV and profile to be kept current Simply put works that that a researcher Creates and manages using our infrastructure can Seamlessly update their orchid their orchid dash their orchid profile. It's not called a profile. I think they call it a record Right, so works it would update the works section for example of your of your orchid record Similarly our system artifacts can learn about you and your interests When you decide to share your orchid record information with our system It's not required. It's optional, but it's highly valuable Citations made using Google add-on update researchers dashboards instantly and API services that enable interoperability Some of both of these are combined together and what I'll speak of here So again, those of you who write papers and author you view tool. You've used tools like end note. You've used You've used Mendeley. You've used Otero wonderful tools. They've existed for decades What's their value add in terms of publishing? Well, they have the information and the intelligence the formatting rules for Bibliographies in text citations and bibliographies at the end of the paper. That's wonderful And it can save you depending upon how many citations you have in your bibliography can save you hours of work If you've submitted to publisher a and they've rejected your paper and you need to submit to publisher b and oh They have a different format requirement Right. Well in the old days, you had to retype everything manually. Well We've done that in order of magnitude better and as Jason will show in a moment the interoperability We have with Google add-on Enables one who's authoring in Google in Google Docs Excuse me with Google Docs who's authoring to be able to find and retrieve a reference. That's not so novel You can do that with end note to cite that reference to cite that reference in their paper and what's really novel here and and that reinforces the vision that that I expressed early on the ability to enable researchers to give and receive citations in real time so imagine yourself writing an article citing a colleague's work and as you're writing that article you drop that citation into the paper and Bing Your dashboard in artifacts indicates that you've just given a reference to that colleague and Their dashboard in artifacts picks up the fact that they've just received a citation from you Okay So how researchers and institutions benefit? Well, it's integrated it's integrating into workflow into the workflow. So just quickly here illustrate from from from left to right data come in data come into our system from all manner of Places in all manner of file types and variety were agnostic to to file type. We love virtually every file type and And that information comes in again in various ways by direct interaction with a platform through APIs and integrations with integrations with other third-party tools and systems The The off-chain work we do that translates into on-chain work is we enable proof-of-existence transactions that are that our smart smart contract embeds with with metadata and then this Section of the workflow represents researchers interacting with the various tools and applications that they use whether it's Google Docs Whether it's a project management application such as as Melda or others and the consumers out here on the far right Could be their institutions their funding organizations fund funders the general public and so forth so Today artifacts is collaborating with a variety of each of those types of of organizations funders publishers research institutions and and others and we would Be happy to collaborate with any of you or your organizations in similar fashion With that let me conclude two minutes for questions So I have there are a couple minutes for questions. I'm happy to take any questions now if there are Thanks great presentation my question is in the beginning you mentioned that the one of the goals of the whole project is to Get a research recognition and probably some kind of a Renumeration or reward for the multitude of things that he or she is doing right and this somehow was absent from the Rest of the presentation how exactly is this achieved? So I understand that you your artifacts allows to Record things on the hash to index a multitude of texts documents raw data What whatever in the blockchain, but where where how does this? Incentives and reward and recognition Machinery comes in sure. Yeah, great question. Thanks. So the the incentive we we do Well, the incentives are citations. We are not Revolutionizing the the academic research incentive structure. We're not applying token incentives We're not monetizing those tokens where we're not what we're not engaged in a tokenized market What we're doing is enabling citations to be given and received. We're tracking those We are reporting those within an individuals Dashboard in our system Jason may be able to show that during the demonstration immediately after my talk and Those citations we believe ultimately will be combined together by a researcher Along with citations to their published literature that are reported in the web of science or scopus So it's it's a citation to their work and it just happens to be a pre-published work and and and so The incentive here for the researcher the payoff for them is this is the mechanism for them to accumulate Citations in different ways in an indifferent channel than they currently are today Okay, this system this system enable citations. I can I can give a citation the Google Docs Implementation I can drop a citation in a paper today To a work of yours and if you have an artifacts account I have an artifacts account our system will recognize and count that I've given a Citation to you and that you've received one This is citation Here How do you make money? What is your business model great? That's great question. So I'll I'll say first The I'll answer a question you didn't ask how don't we make money? We don't make money by charging researchers to use the system So the system is free at the point of use for for individual researchers small research teams Ultimately the business model ultimately the business model that we envision here is one where where they're where as the system You as users on the system grow and as data on the system grows over time That we will be able Just to essentially sell subscription access to analytics and information Only access to information that researchers individually have made publicly accessible But access to information that's on our platform that has been shared to their Institutions or the funders of research or the publishers of research so earlier this morning We saw a presentation around peer review and and and decentralizing using Using blockchain to decentralize peer review one of the challenges that editors have is finding peer reviewers Our system can provide insight into Identifying peer reviewers so the business model ultimately is to monetize through selling subscription access to data and analytics Thanks for asking that Data and analytics. Yeah, there's a question in the back from Jens if we have time They're still setting up I'll steal this time Thanks, Dave for this excellent presentation. I just wondering I mean Pre-published data right you're talking about citations, but actually more than citations is this Notorious age index, right? So if I just have a little bits of information, they might get cited once or twice But let's say in the academic world You want to more have like a 20 plus age index, which means only citations Only only work that gets more than 20 citations really makes an impact, right? So the met for the metrics of let's say more advanced academics like these partial things which might get cited once or twice Might not be as valuable right because they did their inefficient for your age index. The second thing is like it depends on the research field, but often it's difficult to Attribute a certain achievement to a single researcher, right? Let's say I'm the supervisor I give something to a PhD student who works and I gave them instruction do this measurement the PhD student does that There's a postdoc like looking over that, you know, and suddenly you have that PhD student and that happens in the real world We all you real human beings thinking it's all his own. Let me quickly file that past any Super line manager supervisory like I have done this, right? And suddenly it's on the blockchain and then you have like internal wars Because the postdoc will say look I said with you every week I told you in the beginning don't do this and got you on the right track the supervisor said I got the money I got that overall Idea so how do you avoid swamping the system with it? And how do you avoid that this will kind of create like internal wars within the research teams because it's so easy for each of them to just Quickly upload that on artifacts great great question. Let me take the second one first How many of you are familiar with the credit taxonomy? Credit The casray credit taxonomy all right, so so One approach that we've taken to addressing the question of well, how do multiple contributors actually? explicitly be be recognized for their contributions for a given output Whatever that output may be now if it's the paper It could be the entire team if it's a data set There may be there may be two or three individuals the credit taxonomy taxonomy provides essentially the taxonomy provides a definition of different roles of Contribution so we've adopted that to enable individual contributors to read to Express and register their contribution Ultimately it will come down to a principal investigator and her or his policy for Acknowledging and recognizing work Right, but but ultimately the system that we've built enables the individual contributors to explicitly Identify and multiple contributors associated with a given artifact to identify what their contributing roles have been and I may have I may have these two roles Yes, you may have three other roles associated with a work product So that that's that's one approach But but sorry just but this is not I mean this is like a quick upload right where like over eager let's say Post grad students or so could just do that with a single click if I have a submission of a paper Right, it usually there is a certain procedure in place where this cannot go beyond Some reporting levels even the IP department Technology transfer office depending on what you do probably not so much in social sciences and so on would have reviewed whether let's say this Accreditation of author ships and so on is properly done. Yes, right and here you have like a quick bypass for that It seems we're not we're not bypassing that and I really glossed over the workflow that's in our system where where the workflow enables the administrator the principal investigator to determine the rights and The rights in terms under which those who have access to information or create information in the project What what their capabilities are so those those controls are within our system for those very reasons now your your first question I've just briefly comment on the fact on it this way in that we have papers on the one hand and we have these artifacts and Well, if these artifacts only receive one or two citations, is that really going to move the meter? Versus a paper that's published What I would what artifacts would argue speaking for us broadly is that we believe going forward enabling these work products to become Citable assets in and of themselves Their importance some not every output not every work product But some of those work products will rise to the level of significance and impact on on other scholars work To the same level of a paper in fact It may be more valuable for me to actually have access to your data set and your your statistical Algorithms that you used that you used against it for my research Rather than the paper itself I may have learned about your work through the paper But where I really advanced my work was through your data set and that's what my and we believe going forward citations to those supplementary materials that complement the published work or May exist independent of a published work because that work was never published it generated negative results Now I know funders are interested in negative results because they don't want to refund something that someone else has Proven can't work But nobody publishes that But that's all scholarly communications is a totally different talk. So with that, let me segue Jason. Thank you