Tasks, People and Roles

Tasks People and Roles

** Most importantly we realise that this is a volunteer project, where most people have "day activities" which take precedence. You give what you can, when you can and we and the world are very grateful. **

Timescales are unpredictable. I've run projects like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/Blue_Obelisk) purely with volunteers

Vision

To create new Open scientific/medical knowledge relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic that will be used by others for:

• policy
• other science (especially data-driven)
• education and learning for everyone

With limited, but smart, resources our main impact will be:

• using knowledge from a wide range of disciplines, not just biomedical. Social science, psychology, economics, literature, etc. as well as maths, phys, chemistry, materials, biomedical.
• welcoming collaborators from round the world
• giving readers power to define the knowledge they want (e.g. creating dictionaries)

How we work

We have a common vis

We have managed to identify important areas which are self-contained and continuous (i.e. every contribution matters and enhances the project, but where none are blocking. This is mainly because we have multiple inputs (e.g. corpora, sites), multiple dictionaries (knowledge facets), and multiple outputs, and multiple distribution routes. There are general tasks (documentation, tutorials, outreach) which are continuous. There is no blame, and we do not rely too heavily on other colleagues' contributions.