Knowledge Studio aims to contribute (at a tiny scale) fixing the attention market failure by assuming that a “pdf” is the last thing you produce as a researcher but it’s also the last thing random someone wants to consume/interact with but still wants to access the information in some way. Hence, “studio” for displaying the scientific knowledge in different formats/media and different levels of complexity.

It is a project developed thanks to an Effective Venture US grant I received and used in part to develop my stealth experimental lab Simlev around those topics. Knowledge Studio has been iterated for years since 2020 and what you see on my website is the latest format.

Step 1

The idea of this “KnowledgeStudio” is to display the research through different layers starting with the miniatures (we take as an example this paper).

button which displays the title of a research paper and its question.
At this point, in 2s users know if they want to pay few additional tokens of attention to know.

Step 2

If yes, then users click on this miniature and get access to a short set of meta-data and a picture which helps getting a context and re-fill your interest through another format than word. Why this picture next to this title? meta-data:

title
authors (including links to their webpage)
when it was first published as working paper
and next to it, the citation reference (if it’s published, then the authors put the published references)
in red, the link to download the pdf

Step 3

a bit below the abstract;

Step 4

then you directly read in full the introduction

Step 5

and at this point if you want to know more, well, i guess you would be happy to click on “read the pdf”.

Few remarks

1) at each step, I assume I am loosing audience and only the more specialized / technical or interested in details remain and will click on the pdf

2) you can always access the pdf from my home page and directly once you click on the miniature in the KnowledgeStudio

Few extensions — with more ressources

1) clearly, things I would like to do (automatically): adapting the entire display conditional on who you are cognitively (word, audio, video) or socially speaking (journalist, researcher, citizen, etc)

2) I would like to add audio option for the intro and a short movie explaining the paper (either the author front cam explaining it ; or some animation)

but everything should (semi-)automatized at a top quality through an infrastructure one-click away — something which has not been feasible at low cost since I have started this in 2020. But hey, perhaps 2024 will be it!

What is a Knowledge Studio?