Creating a future infrastructure for notebooks to be submitted and peer-reviewed

[westurner]

What is a Journal, what value do Journals provide, how can Journals and Notebooks merge to become supreme Notebook-hosting Journals?

What is a Journal? What value do Journals provide?

• Document hosting: PostScript, LaTeX, PDF, HTML → HTML+RDF (RDFa), HTML+JSONLD
• Document-level bibliographic metadata:
  Title, Authors (Organizations, Funding), Abstract
• Comments / Threaded Comments
• Search: Documents, Comments, Datasets, Code
• Premises: Inputs and Outputs
  • Citations as (typed) graph edges (already parsed into JSON-LD)
  • Code repositories with version control
  • Data repositories with version control
  • Image hosting: charts and figures (CDN: Content Delivery Network)
• Recommended/similar articles
• #LinkedResearch (linkeddata/dokieli,)
• Expert Community
  • Audience
  • Moderation (this is a real cost)
    • Annotating Jupyter notebooks
      discusses GitHub - jupyterlab/jupyterlab-commenting: Commenting and annotation for JupyterLab
      which currently stores annotations (comments and highlights with optional comments) in a repo-local sqlite file.

How can Journals and Notebooks merge to become supreme Notebook-hosting Journals?

• Accept and host Jupyter notebook ScholarlyArticle(s):

  • nbviewer – read-only (nbconvert --to html notebook.ipynb)

  • BinderHub (JupyterHub) – read-write (repo2docker github.com/repo/name)

  • List of solutions for hosting Notebooks as/with Journals

• Integrate with the https://mybinder.org/ BinderHub instance?

  • Donate or pay for the resources used by container instances launched
    from Journal-registered repo URLs

  • List Journal logo and URL on the https://mybinder.org/ front page

  • https://twitter.com/westurner/status/1179597041963540480

    Maybe journals would pay @mybinderteam for ScholarlyArticles
    published with their journal? Like a white label SaaS notebook
    service with their journal name and link on https://mybinder.org?

    A blog post and a survey question or two on the homepage might
    help estimate the potential

    Would you pay @mybinderteam to host ScholarlyArticles’ notebooks
    published with your journal? (Instead of just hosting your own
    https://binderhub.readthedocs.io )
    There’s currently support for git, @github, @ZENODO_ORG, @figshare