Related initial goals
~ A public archive for gathering + hosting [comprehensive] patent data
~ community space for an associated research collaborative
connecting a community of scholars through shared methods + collaboratively refined data.
~ Hosted data: patent data, citation graphs, related code, models,
metrics [and services] needed to share data and reproduce work
~ Traces for: free licenses, alignment of any IDs w/ public Wikidata + LensIDs.
~ Traces for: keeping data up to date [maintainers + maintenance tempo / process]
~ Published guides for using the data [related scaffolding + pubs!]
~ Convening researchers to build awareness + share methods [NBER in person; what do we do now online?]
Motivation
Track + update the members (+ list) with interesting topics
{currently we just have a new mailman list}
Gather stories from past talks / from socializing around regular meetings [July NBER Innovation meeting, next Technical Workshop this fall, other]
Coordinate w/ community leads w/in subgroups: (econ research: UCSD; law researchers: ?)
Exploration
Explore the current work + associated data of III members
Write people w/ interesting work + ask about their past data [+ how to move up the ladder of accessibility to Full Ax]
Scaffolding
Design an interface for taking in a (new, old) paper and suggesting how to store + share its data
Done well, this is what every grad student will associate w/ the initiative😅
Paint
Design of the III registry (css for the subset of R1, or other landing page)
Narrative + rabbit hole: inspiration to register your data in the first place!
Pointers to Matt M’s / Mercedes’s / other writing
perhaps speak to Kevin Hu — though want a sufficiently interesting ground layer first (Dietmar Offenhuber also)
Examples
Bronwyn, Matt, Lens Lab