Welcome to the WorldBrain project and great that you are also interested in improving the quality of humanity's greatest invention, the internet. 🎉 👍
Together we want to work on the goal of Increased (scientific) literacy in our global society through a better information quality on the internet.
>>>> We are looking for a DEVELOPER TEAM LEAD<<<<
To stay updated about WorldBrain's progress, check out our 2-3 minute sprint report video, we publish every 2nd Wednesday or subscribe to our developer mailing list.
We just published our first prototype with the channel "Related Content" , powered by Laterals News API and broadcasted into a Hypothes.is group.
Currently we are working on the feature to search through the content of outlets (i.e. blogs, news, facebook groups/pages, scholarly and governmental databases) that have been flagged as trustworthy by our science community
In 10 years, we want to be able to provide the general public with a browser plugin that shows the accuracy and trustworthiness of web content, based on how well it represents scientifically verifiable facts.
We follow an ambitious long-term goal, yet we are able to deliver immediate value to users and contribute to scientific literacy in the public at each step of our path.
For more detailed information on how we want to accomplish this, check out our 10 year roadmap.
Historical approaches to crowdsourced fact-checking, like factlink.com or grasswire.com, didn’t reach a critical mass of contributors, because there was no personal value for users to contribute.
This is why with Webmarks, we develop an open-source SaaS tool for science communicator like scientists, science writer and the skeptical communities to find quality scientific web content faster and to get various meta information to the currently visited articles via a sidebar.
The strategic purpose of Webmarks is to build a large community of scientifically literate individuals and be an integral part of their day-to-day online web research.
By analysing our user’s workflows, users already contribute at this stage with important metadata about the quality of different websites and their content. (What data will we gather from users?)
For people doing web research, it is a very time consuming process to find quality scientific content related to the immediate (news)article or their overall web research goal.
To get this information, users currently have to search through all of their trusted outlets (i.e. blogs, news, facebook groups/pages, scholarly and governmental databases) separately or use google, where they are unable to filter for their trusted sources.
- A search engine in the form of browser-sidebar, that lets users perform keyword searches through a list of outlets flagged by the user and/or our scientific community as trustworthy.
- A recommendation engine to get related content to the immediate article, also only from these trusted sources, displayed in the sidebar.
- Additional meta browsing channels to put the immediate content into other contexts. For example by displaying Altmetric data in the sidebar or highlighting Wikipedia entries in the text. There are endless opportunities to do this and we surely won’t cover all of them. That is why we open up this platform to developers and organisations to add new channels and distribute them to users.
To get a feeling for how it works, watch our short demo video.
More details about Webmarks, you find it here: WorldBrain/Webmarks/README.md
## Areas to Contribute
The goal of this team is to make web content & data accessible to be analysed.
Means crawling/parsing websites, building connections to APIs and databases and make their content available to be analysed by other teams in the project. (.i.e. TEAM: DataScience)
The goal of this team is to conceptualise and constantly improve the search engine (and later the recommendation engine), so that users can search through the content of the sources the science community trusts. #MachineLearning #DataScience #NLP
The goal of this team is to build and constantly improve the WorldBrain client (Webmarks). Means for example the front- and back-end architecture of the sidebar or the browser plugin.
## Technologies and Services
- Python
- ReactJS
- ElasticSearch
- Gensim
- Docker
- Travis
- Django
- PostgreSQL
## Who is working on it?
Visit our team repo to check out who is working on WorldBrain project, which areas they learn and work on and to find collaborateurs for joint development.
## License
