Mellon Scholarly Communication - ResearcherPod

A decentralized architecture for generation, propagation and notification of artefact lifecycle information in scholarly networks.

Watch Herbert Van de Sompel's Paul Evan Peters Award & Lecture to learn about our vision.

Mellon Scholarly Communication ResearcherPod is a Ghent University - IDLab project funded by the Andrew W Mellon foundation that explores an architecture to keep track of lifecycle information of scholarly artefacts in decentralized networks. It is designed to handle the generation, distribution, storage and discovery of artefact lifecycle information created by the available scholarly value chains in the decentralized personal data stores of researchers in a network.

Image: High-level architecture of the developed decentralized network for scholarly communication