samvanstroud
commented
4 years ago Hi Stefan, this idea of creating a "meta-understanding" of a field is very interesting. Though it's not initially clear to me how one might "map the experimental record" of a field. Could you maybe talk a bit more about that process? Are there any tools, or previous examples to help understand this? Certainly knowing where to focus future research efforts would be incredibly valuable for any field. For the "unexplored territories" in a field, I wonder if you also would try to include information about how hard it would be to explore and understand these territories? Then you would be able to identify "low hanging fruit": research efforts that are achievable but would also provide a lot of value to the field.
P.S. I think the suggestion from the OLS team was to include everything as comments to the original issue (#9), so we can move the discussion there if you wish! Thanks!
malvikasharan
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I’m working with neuroscientists and meta-scientists to map the experimental record within the neuroscience field so that neuroscientists can better determine what their fields have accomplished and where the unexplored territories still reside. I'm working open because this projects both needs open data and needs to be open itself to truly work; without open data the experimental record is not completely mapped and without the project being open neuroscientists cannot learn about the experimental record.