ARTiFACTS and PranaGEO start partnership
14
DECEMBER, 2018
Partner
Corporate
Data Science Platform to Receive Blockchain-based Services for Research Collaboration and Acknowledgement of Creative Works
Cambridge MA (United States) – Bodrum (Turkey), 14 December 2018 – ARTiFACTS and PranaGEO signed today an agreement to partner in the development of a combined approach for co-integrating their respective products: artifacts.ai and melda.io. Both parties have been active in development of cloud-based software tools that aim making scientific publication artifacts and reproducible research results become more easily discoverable by the research community.
ARTiFACTS is a distributed ledger and transaction engine that records a permanent, valid, and immutable chain of records for all scientific and academic research ‘transactions’ including citing/attribution transactions. melda is a cloud-based scalable data science platform with a strong computation engine in R and Python. By combining the two products, data scientists will have access to much stronger set of tools when they are searching existing projects. This collaboration will address key pain points experienced by data scientists, especially making research results easier to track and more traceable for future reference.
“ARTiFACTS and PranaGEO are both focused on enabling researchers to manage the provenance of work products and share results in re-usable form, earlier with colleagues,” said ARTiFACTS co-founder, Dave Kochalko. “By working together, we look forward to complementing Melda.io with services that facilitate collaboration by providing Proof of Existence for original research artifacts and Proof of Attribution for acknowledging the contributions of colleagues.
PranaGEO’s Co-Founder Gert Kroon sees this partnership as an excellent step towards extending the functionality of melda.io and expanding the ecosystem of the applications it is interfacing within the data science community.
About ARTiFACTS
ARTiFACTS provides a user-friendly platform, purpose built for academic and scientific research that leverages blockchain technology. Researchers can record a valid and immutable chain of records in real-time, from the earliest stages of research for all research artifacts, including citing/attribution transactions. While today’s digital scholarship merely creates linkages among an artificially narrowed subset of indexed publications long after discoveries are made, ARTiFACTS focuses on capturing and linking knowledge from its initial ideation throughout the research process to informal and formal dissemination. By using the ARTiFACTS platform, researchers will be able to immutably prove ownership and existence of novel work, expand access to their research artifacts, provide and receive real-time attribution for novel work and more comprehensively and rapidly build and demonstrate their body of scholarly contributions.
To learn more, visit us at artifacts.ai and follow us on Twitter @ARTiFACTS_ai.
About PranaGEO
PranaGEO is a Research and Development Startup specialized in delivering data science related software products. Our team is excelled at delivering scalable data-driven web applications suitable for the cloud-native context. With melda.io new, our innovative, web-based cloud-native data science platform, it is possible to create data analysis projects with R, Python, publish your work, interact and co-create with others. CEO Gert Kroon sees this partnership as an excellent step towards extending the functionality of melda.io and expanding the ecosystem of the applications it is interfacing within the data science community.
To learn more, visit us at melda.io and follow us on Twitter @pranageo
If you would like more information about this partnership, please contact:
Dave Kochalko
ARTiFACTS
dkochalko@artifacts.ai
www.artifacts.ai
Gert Kroon
PranaGEO
gert@pranageo.com
www.pranageo.com