We believe that changing the conditions of science production, we can have a significant impact on the direction and effectiveness of science as a whole.
We hope that our tool can increase the cumulativity of knowledge, the easiness of access to knowledge and better orient knowledge production towards the needs of each discipline.
OmniScience.academy is a tool to enable curious citizens and researchers to get an overview of what science says about a given issue. We believe that by accelerating the speed at which researchers find answers to questions they are exploring, we increase the overall productivity of research and speed up research on important issues. Alternatively, we believe that it is also a way to enable citizens to guard against misinformation. Finally, we believe that facilitating access to an overview of research on a given issue lowers the cost of entry into a new field, which could probably promote inter-discplinarity and decrease the tendency towards hyper-division of labour.
We are French students with backgrounds in data science, theoretical computer science, economics and philosophy of law. Our goal is to make the best use of our time in order to undertake actions that maximise our impact in the world. We all share a passion for epistemology. Some of us are in organizations working to make science more open, which we think is an important concern (free access to knowledge, open access to data, decentralised peer reviewing). We are also concerned about the alignment of artificial intelligence with human values.
We see Knowledge as the cornerstone upon which a much better world becomes possible.
This year, 1.8 million articles were published and this number increases by 4% every year. This deluge of data creates an ever increasing division of academic labor and forces scientists to become overspecialized.
This movement seems damaging to us, because we believe that transdiciplinary knowledge favours the birth of new paradigms within the different disciplines.
Our wish is to allow scientists to have an easier access to overviews of the literature on a question, on a field, or on a discipline. By developing OmniScience, we hope to facilitate access to a quick understanding of the different issues, controversies, concepts and methods of a research theme and thus create more distance and interdisciplinarity.
Making science more accessible is one of the main ways to ensure that it benefits the greatest number. That's why we develop our tool and also why we're supportive of the open science movement which commits to provide science to everyone.
Our tool will empower those who care about truth. Through it, we expect to make the world a better place.