GM.

Uh-uh ah-ah. Bom dia amigos Catarrhini. Ótimo fim de semana.

GM, have a nice weekend.

@fiatjaf, I would like a little help from you. Given the poor undestanding I have now of the NOSTR protocol, I don't fell safe about proposing a NIP on github, but I have a good idea for one (at least I think it is). Would you post it there (or actually any one reading this) with all the technical specs necessary? Below my proposal... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 NIP Proposal ====== Scientific Journal Model --------------------- `draft``optional` ## TL;DR This NIP defines`some kind number`: an event to publish a scientific journal article, which I call in my mind "Proceedings of Nostr's Royal Society", but can be extrapolated to books and other sort of writen media that demands complex formatting that markdown can not provide. E.g.: Comics, Mangá, etc. ## Details The two main motivators for this NIP proposal come from the fact that: 1. the actual structure of scientfic plublications resembles a legalized criminal organization. 2. scientific discution has lost most of its connection with real world. Some journals charge researchers, readers or both of them at the same time, making large profits of those peoples work. They generally pay nothing to reviewers of those submitted articles and claim that the "honor" of being one of our selected group of reviewers is payment enough. See, you can even put this participation in your resumé, what a blessing... This NIP intends to ressamble a scientific journal. Those have very specific targets and knownledge areas that can vary broadly, and such contents are almost always distributed as pdf files with formatting defined by each journal. They frequently contain figures, tables and all sort of content. Therefore, I propose the use of [LaTeX](https://www.latex-project.org/get/) or even better, the more recent and under active development [Typst](https://github.com/typst/) (which should be rebranded to Typstr, :)) as the typesetting system of use for content publishing. My knowledge of NOSTR protocol is quite limited, the protocol itself may need adaptation to accept this kind of event. There would be the need for specialized clients (probably on desktop) to render such "languages" and present the user with the formatted content (pdf like). Specialized relays could also exists, and the scientific publisher's mafia could also make use of it, having their own relays and clients with closed payed access. BUT, there would be also the possibility of open and free publishing in direct contact with, well... the rest of the world. AND, there would be laymen feedback on your research results, which would push researches to adopt a more common folk language when writing or a section of the paper dedicated to them if the fancy language is needed for precision. Q: Wouldn't this bring caos to scientific publishing? A: SURE! A most needed one. Q: Wouldn't this open space for trash publications and stupid comments? A: Yes, and the community will solve it. Specialized reviewers, which almost always already do their thing for free, could continue doing so with open NOSTR articles. This has the potential to bring a modern ágora in to place. By the way, there is trash in payed journals as well, even those like [The Lancet](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/home). Q: Would't it be messy as f? A: At start, probably. Solutions based on trial and error (the good old scientific method) will step up. Q: Do you really believe it will be widely adopted? A: Honestly, no. At least not for a very long time. But someone has to bring the idea up. And as soon as we start, faster it may happen. ## Further Reading [The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127502) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQRofpYxHLWu9XVBW4SQ0ZxIAWJbIQUCZ8eJmQAKCRCQ0ZxIAWJb Ie9ZAP9XX7Q//X01SDyxzrj8zQY/8DSpJX5+JAv9x+ZwfwTkxwD9GbIYWwYAsUhG 4linAPbFRNoEP6XkeCT6wYmSgnGyowI= =TNw9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----