openstudy.id

Who runs this,
and why

Disclosurestated, not buried

I build analytical instruments — pipelines, models, dashboards — and I run a consultancy. This site is where I build them in the open, for researchers who have a finding and no way to make it explorable.

The research stays theirs. I take engineering credit, and I cite this work commercially. Nothing here is exclusive, and the code is permissively licensed.

— Taufik Adi Nugraha

That is the whole arrangement. It is written here rather than inferred later, because the alternative is a contributor working it out for themselves after they have contributed — and in a professional community this size, that story travels further than the site would.

Stated up front, the same facts are simply an offer: my motive and the thing being offered are the same act. Demonstrating what I can build and giving a researcher a free instrument are not in tension.

Fundingand what that implies

One person, one server, no grant

Hosting and domain cost roughly two hundred dollars a year, paid personally. There is no funder, no institution, and no staff. The real cost is time.

Two consequences worth stating plainly:

  • It could stop. If it does, work with a DOI survives independently of this site. That is the main argument for taking one.
  • Capacity is the constraint. Instruments are built one at a time by one person. If the queue is long, you will be told the queue is long.
Not thiswhat it is not

Three things this site is not

  • Not a journal. No peer review of record, and no claim to it. Validation gates are checking, not refereeing.
  • Not a repository. It does not archive datasets or host other people's files. Instruments fetch data from its origin.
  • Not a platform. There is no submission queue and no account system. It is one person with a public workbench, and it will stay that way until there is a reason it should not be.
A related project — a commercial knowledge assistant — is built by the same person and is not part of this site. Keeping the two visibly separate is what lets this one be described honestly.
Contacthow to start

Starting a conversation

The useful first message names the finding and the data: "I published X using Y; can this be made explorable?" That is enough to say yes, no, or "here is what could actually be built."

If you are an engineer rather than a researcher, the smallest useful message names an instrument and what you think is wrong with its evaluation. See how to contribute.

Email · taufik@openstudy.id
Full contact details, roles per instrument and the decisions behind them are on the contributors page.