WEEK 05 · FERMLIT BEGINS: THE CORPUS

Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.

Every serious research project starts with an uncomfortable question: has somebody already done this? In corporate strategy you would call it a competitive scan. In science it is the related-work search, and skipping it is the most common way a newcomer wastes six months. So the first thing FermLit does is look for its own twin. If a fermentation-literature dataset already exists, wonderful: you extend it and cite i…