Orvium
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Ticker: | ORV |
ICO start: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
ICO end: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Price: | 1 ORV = 0.1 USD |
Bonus: | 1 |
Tokens: | 227 ORV |
Tokentype: | ERC20 |
Hardcap: | 20,000,000 USD |
Platform: | Ethereum |
Distributed: | 60% |
Accepting: | ETH |
Using cutting-edge blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies, as well as decentralized storage and big data, Orvium creates a public, traceable, and trustworthy record of the research publication process.
Through continuous and transparent review by members of the scientific community, with reputational and economic rewards for peer reviewers, Orvium improves the effectiveness of research production and validation, empowering the research community to determine the validity and soundness of published work.
Eliminating current practices within the publishing industry regarding plagiarism, idea ownership, and registration, Orvium allows authors to retain control of their work and its potential economic benefits, publishing with optimal publication and access costs.
Orvium’s ultimate objective is to be the leading publication platform while returning the benefits of science to society.
Contents
Description
Problem Overview
The scientific publishing industry is one of the most profitable in the world. The top five publishers account for 50% to 70% of all publications, and their profit margins have been reported to exceed those of companies such as Google, Amazon and Apple. In 2015, the global market for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publications was an estimated $25 billion.
In contrast to any other publishing industry, private scientific publishers have pushed the publication efforts and costs to the research community. Scientific publishers have created an awkward triple-pay system: (1) governments fund most of the research, (2) volunteer scientists—usually paid by the government or research institutes—review the work, and (3) publishers sell the product back to governmental institutions and universities. Scientists and research institutions regularly criticize this outrageous economic model, which compromises the dissemination and growth of scientific knowledge, a process responsible for some of the most revolutionary changes in human history.
Moreover, the current publication model has several problems affecting the research community, including high publication costs; copyrights held by publishers rather than authors; long, opaque and oftentimes biased publication and peer review process; lack of rewards and recognition for reviewers; and a proliferation of lowquality journals.
In the last few decades, several initiatives have tried to improve this situation. However, these initiatives have been insufficient to reverse market inefficiencies and barriers.
Orvium Mission
Orvium works to eliminate market inefficiencies and improve the quality and effectiveness of scientific publishing. The ultimate objective is for Orvium to be the leading publication platform for the research community while returning the benefits of science to the society.
Orvium Solution
Orvium leverages a unique and seamless integration of cutting-edge technologies: Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts, decentralized storage solutions, big data analytics, and cloud computing, to create a platform to process, validate, and disseminate research data and results.
The Orvium platform is characterized by the following:
• Instantaneous proof-of-existence. Manuscripts are available from the moment they are submitted to Orvium.
• Copyright and licenses are owned and transferable by authors. Authors retain control of their work and its potential economic benefits.
• Optimal publication and access costs. The prices are not influenced by monopolistic or oligopolistic market structures.
• Efficient framework to create decentralized journals with low maintenance and operational costs.
• Seamless integration between research data and results.
• Continuous and transparent peer reviews. The research community is empowered to publicly determine the validity and soundness of the research.
• Public recognition and economic reward for peer reviewers.
• Journal subscription freedom. No journal subscription model is enforced.
• Accommodates gray literature and its validation.
• Transparent calculation of quality metrics such as impact factor and peer review quality.
• Eliminates current “predatory” practices and conflicts regarding plagiarism, idea ownership and registration.
• Social platform.
In addition, Orvium is founded on open source principles, therefore all the software developed by Orvium is, and always will be, open source.
Business Model and Orvium Token (ORV)
Orvium establishes a transparent, comprehensive and competitive business model to obtain and increase revenue while supporting global research. Orvium’s business model is built on the Orvium token (ORV), a new digital cryptocurrency created specifically for the platform.
The different phases of a manuscripts’ and journals’ life cycles, such as manuscript submission, peer review, payments for copyright licenses, research data sharing, journal management, etc., will generate exchanges of ORV between institutions, authors, peer reviewers, journal owners, readers and any social actor involved. This Orvium decentralization will unlock the full potential of a new, fair, transparent and competitive market controlled by the entire community, free of biased oligopolies and hidden interests.
Roadmap
“ | Phase 0 – Nebula: Idea conception and development: Assemble team White paper creation Incorporate company and legal framework definition Stablish collaboration frameworks for partners Functional prototype (Web interface, API, smart contracts) Marketing campaign Token sale: Creation and public audit of token sale smart contracts. Phase 1 – Red Giant: Token sale: • Launch • End of sale report publication • Independent audit of fund disbursement – Talent finding and recruitment – Platform: • User identification • Paper submission • Peer review Phase 2 – Supernova: Platform: • Platform first public release • Bug bounty program • Decentralized journals management • Licenses and Copyrights – Support for Science and Technology: • Develop research institution collaboration program • Develop grant R&D program Phase 3 – White Dwarf: Platform: • Platform second public release • Patronage • Funding campaigns – Support for Science and Technology: • Establish agreements with universities and research organizations to incentivize the Orvium publication model • Launch grant R&D program Phase 4 – Neutron Star: Platform: • Integrate big data analytics • Release first fully functional Orvium platform – Support for Science and Technology: • Patronage of research lines in collaboration with institutions Phase 5 – Pulsar: Platform: • Launch Orvium 1.0 • Fine tune the operational efficiency • Adiabatic and continuous integration of the R&D results to the Orvium platform – Market capture and expansion of the business model – Support for Science and Technology: • Enhance collaboration programmes and frameworks[1] | ” |
Team
name: | title: | links: | group: | photo: | iss: |
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Manuel Martin | Senior Project Leader & Blockchain Expert | https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-martin-marquez-1082031b | 4 | ||
Antonio Romero | Technology Solution Architect | https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-romero-marin | 4 | ||
Roberto Rabasco | Application and Cloud Technology Expert | https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertorabasco | 4 | ||
Ph.D. Alberto Di Meglio | CERN openlab Head | https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertodimeglio | Advisor | 4 | |
Tom Soderstrom | IT Chief Technology Officer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomsoderstrom/ | Advisor | 4 | |
Chris Mattmann | Assoc. Chief Technology & Innovation Officer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismattmann/ | Advisor | 4 | |
Jesús Villadangos | SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Candidate & Professor | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesusvilladangos/ | Advisor | 4 | |
Nico Orce | Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nico-orce-26aa62aa/ | Advisor | 4 | |
Miguel Angel | Professor and Head of Transport & Logistics | https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-angel-pesquera-8644a016 | Advisor | 5 | |
Bernd Lapp | Advisor to Blockchain | https://www.linkedin.com/in/berndlapp/ | Advisor | 9.8 | |
Nicolai Oster | Head of ICO | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaioster | Business Strategy | 14.6 | |
Christopher Tucci | Chair in Corporate Strategy & Innovation | https://www.linkedin.com/in/cltucci/ | Business Strategy | 4 | |
Franco Alfami | Director of Innovation | https://www.linkedin.com/in/francoamalfi/ | Business Strategy | 4 | |
Davide Gallo | Manager of Partners Ecosystem | https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidegallo/ | Business Strategy | 4 | |
Ruben Garcia | Marketing Expert | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruben-garcia-58560a141/ | Business Strategy | 4 | |
Marek Herm | Attorney at Law & Tax Counsel | https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-herm-8662824/ | Legal Partner | 6 | |
Jose Carlos Luna | Computing Engineer & Security Expert | https://www.linkedin.com/in/josecarlosluna/ | Technical | 4 | |
Marc Magrans | Computing Engineer & Economist | https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-magrans-de-abril-4bb9b64 | Technical | 4 | |
Ignacio Coterillo | Database and Software Engineer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/icotc/ | Technical | 4 | |
Hector Valverde | Solution Architect | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hvpareja/ | Technical | 4 | |
Raul Murillo | Software Engineer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/raul-murillo-garcia-882a11/ | Technical | 4 | |
Carlos Ghabrous | Software Engineer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosghabrous/ | Technical | 4 | |
Alejandro Iribarren | Computing Engineer & Storage Expert | https://www.linkedin.com/in/iribarren/ | Technical | 4 |
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