Program case study
ScienzaOS
Research infrastructure for open science and collaboration.
How one academic foundation — sources, review, rights, and provenance — is meant to carry research, teaching, and university–industry collaboration, at a pre-launch stage.
Pre-launch — access by request
- Intelligent Systems
- Knowledge Systems
Research context
ScienzaOS sits at the intersection of Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Systems. It asks what academic work looks like when agents can prepare material while responsibility stays with people.
The program is pre-launch: access is by request, and the program site describes browser-local previews rather than connected institutional systems.
Approach
- Keep sources, claims, citations, and access context attached to the work they support.
- Route work through review and approval, so the person responsible decides what is issued.
- Carry rights and provenance forward, so reviewed knowledge can be reused rather than rebuilt.
System architecture
Surfaces
Research Agent, Teaching Studio, Business Collaboration
Three connected surfaces for papers and proposals, teaching material, and university–industry work.
- Research Agent
- Teaching Studio
- Business Collaboration
Shared foundation
Sources and evidence
Selected sources stay connected to the work they support, with their access context.
- Evidence lineage
Workflow
Review and approval workflows
Plans, drafts, review issues, and revisions pass an approval gate before anything is issued.
- Approval workflows
Rights
Roles, rights, and provenance
Authorship, versions, sharing conditions, and source context travel with the record.
Reuse
Responsible reuse
Reviewed knowledge moves into teaching and collaboration without being rebuilt from scratch.
Current implementation
- Published status
- Pre-launch — access by request
The status above is the published one. Research Agent is the first offer; the program site presents Teaching Studio and Business Collaboration as browser-local previews.
What this does not claim
- No live student, publisher, or partner-system records are connected today.
- The program site says sign-ups open at the public launch and that nothing is saved or sent before then; this case study does not treat the surfaces as shipped.
Evidence
What the record establishes
The evidence is the program site's documented surfaces, its evidence-lineage model, and its access-by-request status.
What it does not establish
Pre-launch means there is no public usage record yet, so none is claimed here.
Roadmap
Every item below is planned, proposed, or under investigation. None of it is shipped, and this list is not a release schedule.
Planned
Public launch
Planned: access moves from request to public launch. The program site says sign-ups open at that point.
Under investigation
Connecting the teaching and collaboration surfaces
Under investigation: both are browser-local previews today, and connecting them to institutional systems is future work.
Collaboration
ScienzaOS grows through universities and publishers: research offices, graduate programs, and industry partners scoping joint work around evidence, roles, and rights.
Work on a program with us.
Each program takes on partners where the research question meets real practice — clinical review for AIMed, agent runtime governance for ActantOS and Agent Platform, academic workflows for ScienzaOS, and document-heavy collections for AgenticOCR.
Discuss a collaboration- Clinical pilots
- Research collaborations
- Dataset partnerships
- Student theses
- Open-source contributions