hyperboria/papers-please/03-roadmap.md

Roadmap v.0.1

This paper is composed of lifetime goals for Nexus STC (Standard Template Construct).

Although many of goals looks complex and faraway I strongly believe that we will be able to survive and prosper only by making impossible things.

Legend

• (*) Big theoretical task
• (E) Non-essential but still worth to try

Accessibility of Science

Software Accessibility

Infrastructure

• Hermetic and reproducible build of hyperboria project
• Publishing slim images of all required parts to DockerHub (via public services)
• Mirroring repository to IPFS
• Modern one-click app in .deb, .dmg, .exe and Docker format with support of updates

Public Mirrors

• (E) Create Yggdrasil configuration
• (E) Promote Yggdrasil itself
• Create Onion configuration
• Discuss the possibility of switching original LibGen backend to Nexus

Data Accessibility

Infrastructure

• Putting scimag collection onto IPFS (#37)
• Announce data dumps for both scitech and scimag collections
• Pinning feature in the app that will allow users to pin subset of the collection in an easy way (#38)
• (*) Consider various reliable ways to announce new releases of initial data dumps
• Maintain and curate the list of already publicly available journals in Pylon

Decentilized Publishing

Search Server Prerequesties

• Reconsider search schema taking into account new conditions and points of current section
• Writing API in Summa/Tantivy that supports immutability of already existing data
• (*) Consider various ways to produce reproducible segments/chunks of data in the case when same records come in different order
• Replication API in Summa allowing to effectively stream records from one replica to another
• Signing API in Summa for signing every search record and allowing to check signature during replication
• (*) Consider various ways of records broadcasting without coordination

Establishing replication network

• Containerize nexus-pipe for ingesting feed from CrossRef
• Carry tests with several ingesting leader nodes and multiple replicants

Observability of Science

Massive OCR

• (E) Fork/take Grobid project under curation
• Pair Summa server with possibility to OCR
• Extend schema with full article content
• Find CPU capacities to OCR all legacy papers

References

• Maintain graph statistics (at least PageRank) in Summa/Meta API
• Clickable reference links in Cognitron Web (as in the bot)

Entity Extraction

• (*) Consider tools like SciBERT and other upcoming techs for automated entity recognition
• Separate indexing for entity and navigation on them

Usage Statistics

• (*) Consider various reliable ways of exchaning reading/downloading statistics of papers

Broadcasting

• (*) Make new papers visible to relevant users

Automated Science (to be done)

Technology Alliance (to be done)