ORVIUM
ORVIUM — Open and Transparent Science Powered by Blockchain Orvium is the first open source and decentralized framework for managing scholarly publications’ life cycles and the associated data. Orvium introduces a disruptive business model into the research publication market through a unique combination of four core technologies: • blockchain and smart contracts; • decentralized storage • cloud computing; • big data analytics and machine learning. Using blockchain technology and a decentralized storage approach will allow a public, fully traceable, and trustworthy record of the publication process at a minimal cost. Meanwhile, cloud computing technologies will provide flexibility, global availability and scalability to the platform and services. Finally, big data analytics and machine learning will enable advanced analyses to enhance life cycle automatization, facilitate peer review accuracy (e.g., identify plagiarism), classify papers based on their content and...