Metagov x Future of Science Seminar: Interoperable LLM- and Human-Centered Research with Discourse Graphs with Matt Akamatsu
In the age of AI, a new medium for scientific communication is necessary for scientific research to remain collaborative, trustworthy, and mutually human/machine readable. We created lab discourse graphs, a protocol and application for modular, attributable, and interoperable scientific research. Discourse graphs allow researchers to structure their ongoing research into atomic elements - questions, claims, and evidence - and connect them in an evolving shared graph. Our cell biology lab at the University of Washington shares a lab discourse graph as a graph-based lab notebook, project tracker, meetings record, literature parser, and scientific story compilation board. An ongoing pilot with 10 labs has demonstrated that our open-source Roam Research and Obsidian plugins help researchers think like a scientist, remain oriented to their target question/hypothesis, and make modular contributions to shared research projects. Modular attribution of interoperable research results will allow human and AI researchers to contribute to large-scale collaborations, while retaining agency, through shared reasoning across an evolving, auditable, and attributable knowledge base.
More about Metagov Seminar:
The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.
The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.
The seminar is planned through the #metagov-seminar channel on the Metagov Slack. Participate by joining our community.
Time: every Wednesday at 12:00pm ET (GMT-4)
Location: Online. See our Research Seminars Series for meeting information
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More about the Future of Science Seminar:
The Future of Science Seminar is reopening in collaboration with the Metagov Seminar after a one-year hiatus.
The Seminar invites researchers to present their research on Metascience and how we will move towards a more modular, composable, and equitable research ecosystem.
Check out the archives of past seminars and podcast episodes on their website.