This hasn’t been formalized into an academic context, but iNaturalist provides an interface for microarticles.
OpenPub
A collection of thoughts and links from the NCEAS Future of Publishing Working Group
This hasn’t been formalized into an academic context, but iNaturalist provides an interface for microarticles.
So I’m still interested as to whether this fills the academic need or if there is some way to capitalise on this by making it into a “real” publication and make it citeable. Could making it more “scholarly” encourage a wider engagement with professional researchers start to build up a more valuable knowledge base.
I was really digging on the idea of posting the germs of an article as microarticles, getting feedback, then having a full article spring forth as one of the revisions.