Literature Review is a standard for PhD students. During a 3 years long PhD Project they spend at least four month reading and analyzing literature.

With a tool that allows to annotate and query data from the Literature, and especially to re-use other people Annotations, this could significantly reduce time and reduce one of the boring parts of PhD Projects.

In addition to that, there is meta-analysis, when people use Bayes theorem to combine data from a few sources (Papers) and provide more generic results, for example for drug treatment studies.

There is a Research method called a systematic Literature Review, when people spend up to a year doing through Literature review. This review only can provide MRes (master by Research) degree.

Therefor, one can find resources in the Crowd would do annotation. The major focus how to motivate these people to annotate this data.A solution might be the introduction of Data Credits. The idea is as follows. One annotates an Article. Now s/he can Query this and another few Articles. If s/he wants to Query more - s/he has to annotate more. Data Credit may be spend for other things as well.

Outsourcing Research pieces to other universities would significantly improve the scientific strength of this Research Project. The EU consistently tries to strengthen social connections between EU countries. The countless visiting students for example. Therefore, a Research Project that incorporates: - multi-university project - crowd collaboration between a number of EU countries - and world-wide crowd collaboration with the leading role of EU crowd.

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