KnowledgeWorthy.org launches
November 2017 -- KnowledgeWorthy.org is happy to announce its web platform this month. It has truly been a labor of love.
Oversimplification aside, KW is like a "hotornot for research." An abstract pops up, and after you rate it, the abstract whooshes off the screen to the right. Publication details and rating averages pop up on the left, and a new abstract replaces the old one. After rating, you can choose to track the popularity of that abstract over time, and also save it to customizable folders. (And in upcoming versions of our website, you'll be able to choose which subgroup averages you prefer to see.)
We aim to make this website aesthetically-pleasing and engaging for users, while contributing to the valuation of knowledge.
But one of the coolest features of KW is that your set of ratings reflect your "Knowledge Taste" which you can then easily compare with colleagues, friends, and even conference-goers. You have full control over who can view your Knowledge Taste. This "Comparison feature" is live with today's beta.
Today, when you go to a conference alongside thousands of conference-goers, finding new collaborators is almost entirely a matter of blind luck, tedious scouting prep, or your idiosyncratic professional clique. Instead imagine attending a conference workshop and getting a real-time push notification that there's somebody else at the conference with similar Knowledge Taste as you. And that person also simultaneously gets a notification about you. If you both decide to meet, user identities and pictures are revealed and you can say "hi"! Such GPS-based "Tinder-like" functionality is the next step on KW.
This conference functionality can be used in the university environment too.
Overall, KW's mission relates heavily to research awareness and science/arts/humanities communication. This beta is the first baby step for our team of co-founders. Hard at work to develop a cool website, our members have academic backgrounds in engineering, social science, humanities, and computer science, currently hailing from American, European, and Asian institutions. It has truly been a multinational effort.
We hope you join us.
Regards, -Cofounders at KnowledgeWorthy
Oversimplification aside, KW is like a "hotornot for research." An abstract pops up, and after you rate it, the abstract whooshes off the screen to the right. Publication details and rating averages pop up on the left, and a new abstract replaces the old one. After rating, you can choose to track the popularity of that abstract over time, and also save it to customizable folders. (And in upcoming versions of our website, you'll be able to choose which subgroup averages you prefer to see.)
We aim to make this website aesthetically-pleasing and engaging for users, while contributing to the valuation of knowledge.
But one of the coolest features of KW is that your set of ratings reflect your "Knowledge Taste" which you can then easily compare with colleagues, friends, and even conference-goers. You have full control over who can view your Knowledge Taste. This "Comparison feature" is live with today's beta.
Today, when you go to a conference alongside thousands of conference-goers, finding new collaborators is almost entirely a matter of blind luck, tedious scouting prep, or your idiosyncratic professional clique. Instead imagine attending a conference workshop and getting a real-time push notification that there's somebody else at the conference with similar Knowledge Taste as you. And that person also simultaneously gets a notification about you. If you both decide to meet, user identities and pictures are revealed and you can say "hi"! Such GPS-based "Tinder-like" functionality is the next step on KW.
This conference functionality can be used in the university environment too.
Overall, KW's mission relates heavily to research awareness and science/arts/humanities communication. This beta is the first baby step for our team of co-founders. Hard at work to develop a cool website, our members have academic backgrounds in engineering, social science, humanities, and computer science, currently hailing from American, European, and Asian institutions. It has truly been a multinational effort.
We hope you join us.
Regards, -Cofounders at KnowledgeWorthy