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The purpose of this encyclopedia is to trace, document, and promote the development of [[Scientonomy|scientonomy]], the newly emerging empirical science of scientific change. It pursues three major goals:
# Outline with encyclopedic rigor ''the current state'' of the views of the scientonomy community concerning the mechanism ontology and dynamics of scientific change, including changes in both [[Theory|theories]] and [[Method|methods]] of their evaluation.
# Trace and document ''all changes'' in the field of [[Scientonomy|scientonomy]], as they are proposed and [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] by the scientonomy community.
# List and outline ''the open questions'' concerning the theory and the process of scientific change and thus assist with future research in the field.
This workflow gives researchers a simple way of knowing where the community stands on different topics, i.e. what theories it currently accepts, what open questions it tries to answer, what modifications have been proposed and how they have been assessed. It ensures that our communal knowledge is advanced in a ''piecemeal'' and ''transparent'' fashion:
* '''Piecemeal''': modifications to the communal mosaic are suggested one by one, which allows for a sober critical evaluation of these suggestions by the community.
* '''Transparent ''': suggested modifications and their evaluations are properly documented, so that there is no mystery as to whether, when, or why a certain modification was or wasn't accepted.
The workflow is ''scalable'', as it can - in principle - be implemented in other fields of digital humanities and beyond.
