Perhaps less primary research is needed, and more secondary research i.e. more reviews.
It strikes me that making the scientific literature machine-parsable and query-able may help a great deal.
Currently the literature is "scraped" to produce scientific metadata which is stored in databases such as PubMed. Of course, that's back to front. Experimental data, findings, methods, workflows, etc etc should be stored in databases of some sort, and "literature" produced by querying the data.
A pipe-dream, of course. But some steps have been taken towards something approaching this.
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Perhaps less primary research is needed, and more secondary research i.e. more reviews.
It strikes me that making the scientific literature machine-parsable and query-able may help a great deal.
Currently the literature is "scraped" to produce scientific metadata which is stored in databases such as PubMed. Of course, that's back to front. Experimental data, findings, methods, workflows, etc etc should be stored in databases of some sort, and "literature" produced by querying the data.
A pipe-dream, of course. But some steps have been taken towards something approaching this.
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