The biggest complaint in the sciences is "why is it so hard to interact with other research facilities". I know it has been trie before and given up on, but why are we seeing one small group doing this? Wouldn't this be one of those things that everyone in academia jump at when they realize that the current system is suffering? This is actually a business that has real world value, not just for those in the industry, but this has value for entire industries.

Agreed, seems like solving this problem could have a broad impact on the way that science works. I wonder why these sort of problems in scientific communication aren't getting more attention.

It's what we complained about the most while in uni. Finding that those blokes across the river were working on a similar project (some of their solutions would have changed how we thought about our own problems). cheers