Data-driven, Interactive Scientific Articles in a Collaborative Environment with Authorea

Nathan Jenkins (Authorea)
March 04, 2016 — 10:30 — "Salle du conseil du L2S"

Abstract

Most tools that scientists use for the preparation of scholarly manuscripts, such as Microsoft Word and LaTeX, function offline and do not account for the born-digital nature of research objects. Also, most authoring tools in use today are not designed for collaboration and as scientific collaborations grow in size, research transparency and the attribution of scholarly credit are at stake. In this talk, I will show how Authorea allows scientists to collaboratively write rich data-driven manuscripts on the web–articles that would natively offer readers a dynamic, interactive experience with an article’s full text, images, data, and code–paving the road to increased data sharing, data reuse, research reproducibility, and Open Science.

Biography

Nathan Jenkins is co-founder and CTO of Authorea. A condensed matter physicist, Nathan completed his Ph.D. at the University of Geneva where he studied electronic properties of high temperature superconductors at the atomic scale. He was then awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation scholarship to study as a postdoc at NYU where examined the dynamics of protein folding via atomic force microscopy. Hailing from California, Nathan resides between Geneva, Switzerland and New York City.