Just wanted to share a few links with you that I think are related. I recently read an interview with Jean-Claude Bradley, a chemistry professor and a pioneering practitioner of open notebook science. His group has a wiki page where they describe all their experiments while they perform them (not just when they are finished).

An excerpt from the interview (about a research blog vs a wiki):

“It seemed to me to make sense because you have one post. You can describe one experiment, and then have people comment on it. And then, create a new experiment. That actually didn’t work very well, and the reason is there is so much editing that goes on in terms of recording the science. And the wiki is because you are able to access any individual version. You are able to see when conclusions were made, when errors were found and corrected. You are able to see who did each particular contribution.”

Another researcher who is working on better tools for scientific collaboration and publication is Michael Nielsen.

Both can be found on FriendFeed