« (…) ORCID is eager to participate in projects that enrich the PID ecosystem. That includes looking at what blockchain can offer us, even if it’s clearly in a tech hype cycle. One such project is Digital Science’s Peer Review Blockchain initiative,…
« The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) is pleased to announce a new pilot project with Bernstein Technologies GmbH (Bernstein), which will give MPG-scientists access to the groundbreaking blockchain technology to certify their research data on the Bitcoin Blockchain.
(…) Using this technology Bernstein allows researchers at the MPG to create…
« Nous vous proposons depuis quelques jours déjà un tour d’horizon des applications possibles de la blockchain. De l’agriculture à l’édition en passant par les jeux à base des chats et l’industrie musicale, elles sont très nombreuses. L’actualité est là…
« Today, global technology company Digital Science has released a landmark report titled: Blockchain for Research – Perspectives on a New Paradigm for Scholarly Communication. The report offers a perspective on blockchain technology and how it could impact scholarly communication and research. It also…
« This is a short report that looks at the potential in research and education of blockchain, the technology that underpins the Bitcoin virtual currency. Blockchain is currently at the peak of the hype cycle, so I spend a little time looking at how we can identify what’s realistic and avoid…
« This blog post is the second part of an informal series of articles in the TIB Blog about the potential of blockchains in research and education. (…) Today’s article addresses the issue of how Mozilla’s “Open Badges” have digitised and decentralised certificates in the domain of education, how this can…
« The financial industry, medical records, the Internet of Things – millions are currently being invested in research into blockchains, financed from numerous private and public sources. This basic technology of the cybercurrency bitcoin promises to resolve a number of major problems using a decentralised approach. In this blog post, I…
« A la fin du mois dernier, Creative Commons France a publié sur son blog un très intéressant billet pour rendre compte des premiers résultats d’un projet pilote conduit avec le service Ascribe.io pour permettre aux créateurs d’enregistrer leurs oeuvres sous licence Creative Commons via le protocole Blockchain.…
« Le Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Mark Walport vient de publier un rapport invitant le gouvernement britannique à pleinement embrasser les nombreuses potentialités offertes par la technologie « des registres distribués » (Distributed Ledger Technology), dont l’exemple le plus connu est la blockchain, à l’origine de la fameuse cryptomonnaie Bitcoin apparue…
