Modular Interoperable Research Attribution

A new medium for research.

Research today is shipped as a sealed document. MIRA turns it into a graph of signed, citable records: the questions a field is asking, the claims that answer them, and the evidence behind each one.

What it is

A shared structure for research in progress.

MIRA is an open architecture that defines a shared schema for research records and the relations that connect them. Notebook plugins, authoring tools, and publishing platforms all speak this format, so researchers using different tools still collaborate on a shared graph.

A medium, technically

An interface between tools

Any tool can be extended to create, query, and write to a graph. MIRA itself hosts nothing.

A medium, as an ecosystem

Maintained by its users

MIRA is maintained in the open by the teams that build tools around it and the researchers who use it.

What becomes possible

Higher fidelity on the research you care about.

For funders
See the whole field
Query the live graph of a field you fund and see which claims are well supported, which are contested, and which questions still have no answer. See more than what's in the spotlight.
Catch dropped lines of insight
When a line of work stalls, the graph shows where it stopped: the question that never got an answer, the proposed experiment still waiting for a lab.
Spot bottlenecks and emerging trends
The shape of the record shows where a field is stuck and where momentum is building, years before citation counts catch up.
Recognize the full breadth of contributions
Credit attaches to each claim, question, and piece of evidence a researcher adds. Work that would once have vanished into a co-author line can be recognized and rewarded.
Forecast where a field is going
A provenanced record is one you can compute on. When people or agents draw new conclusions from it, every inference traces back to vetted evidence.
For labs
A shared map across labs
Collaborating labs work from a shared graph of claims, evidence, and requests. That shared map gives them the precision to take on questions too big for any single lab.
Surface your unknown unknowns
Structuring work as claims, evidence, and requests reveals what's already latent in your research: the insights you haven't named and the questions you didn't know you were asking.
Assisted peer review
Most of peer review is untangling what a paper claims and what its evidence shows. In the graph that structure is explicit, so AI can carry a real share of the work.
Granular attribution
Every record is signed by the person who made it. However many labs share a project, each researcher can point to the exact contributions that are theirs.
AI as a trusted collaborator
A graph of claims and evidence is the rules of science in machine-readable form, and agents run far better on it than on cluttered PDFs. They can navigate and add to the record while human contributions stay plainly in evidence.
Who's using it

Deployed in real labs.

100+
researchers writing in it weekly, in their own notebooks
6,000+
signed research records authored
10+
life-science labs deployed
Deployed with researchers at
McGill University of Washington NYU Quantum Biology Institute
Tools that integrate MIRA already
Discourse Graphs
Typed claim, evidence, and relation authoring inside Roam and Obsidian. A multi-year deployment across more than ten life-science labs.
Semble (Cosmik)
AT-Protocol-native social curation of research objects, with thousands of active users.
eLife Pathways
Open manuscript submission, peer review, and publication with broad reach in the life sciences.
OXA (CSF)
Structured scientific-document exchange across MyST, Curvenote, JATS, Quarto, and Stencila.
Get involved

Help establish the shared record for science.