I was motivated to think of these use cases of sharing research when I found out a project to scan, transcribe and translate thousands of hand written journals was done by sending memory cards back and forth. I thought maybe Fossil scm would be a good option with file blob and wiki support, but the learning curve isn’t there, people take the path of least resistance.

I think a lot of research groups are still in list-servs, and I haven’t seen any social networks catering to advancing cross disciplinary research. Maybe something could be built on top of LibGen ?