Initiative for Innovation in Scholarly Communication Serving Innovation

Initiative for Innovation in Scholarly Communication „Serving Innovation …“ El. Pub 2006 – Workshop Wolfram Horstmann 2006/06/14

Initiative „Digital Peer Publishing“ initiated by the Ministry of Research of the German state North-Rhine Westphalia operator: hbz - public service provider for academic libraries proximate goal: Support Start-ups & Pick-ups of e. Journals ultimate goal: Fostering innovative forms of web-based, scholarly communication

Organisation e. Journal Authors G Editor/Chief ! Referees CD " Editorial office Readers admin. $ : Editorial Board local Institution _ Ò: Ó … techn. Infrastructure § i Licences Publishing Service Structure Support ] Distribution

Some data 11 journals from various disciplines most starting within past 15 months around 200 (500) reviewed publications still moderate submission rates, high rejection rates compound/complex materials about 50 editorial users - with editorial nets several 100 several ‘true’ readers each month: 50 > x < 500 per article without free internet-floatation (!!!) even if assuming only 10% of visitors as readers compare to journal usage statistics of libraries (often below 1 per year) first citations of start-ups observed

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Di. PP-Services Hosting and Archiving powerful and secure Hardware and Software – Fedora / Zope-Plone "persistent Identifiers" for primary Publications - URN open archival format - XML preparation for long-term archiving Production system individual layout simple editing of editorial contents - WYSIWYG autom. article conversion with stylesheets - RTF/La. Te. X -> XML <- HTML/PDF messaging - Lists/RSS-Feeds Licence-Management automated licence management: integration in metadata and articles „some rights reserved“ – CC to be included Digital Peer Publishing Licence – modules for scholarly communication – DPPL …

Di. PP-Services … Distribution indexing in search engines / databases - z. B. ISSN, EZB, DOAJ, OAISTER automat. notification of metadata and articles - via OAI-PMH / e. Mail-Alert disciplinary forms for metadata- DDC, PAC etc. tools and scripts for exact and ‚clean‘ statistics– AWstats, Custom (Python) Workflow systems Forms, worklists and views for authors, editors and reviewers scalability - Blind, Double-Blind etc. Training / knowledge transfer workshops and intra-network exchange - Workshops, Training, Lists, WIKI

Di. PP-Services platform Referees _ CD Author Reader Serviceprovider (8) distribution Di. PP-Services • (1) submit • • Editorial office (2) review Peer Review-System ! • Chief editor Service-provider Workflow enabled Document submission form Reviewing management (4) OAI • • G Document conversion & transformation URN Management Ingest preparation • Metadata Management • Object Relationship (5) Webservice (3) release document ª (7) edit $ (9) Reads/ comments Publication-System / Editorial Toolbox • • Workflow enabled Customized e. Journal instances User Management Content Management (8) distribution Repository Management API (API-M) • Access API (API-A) • Field search • OAI • (6) Webservice Metadata Database HTTP Editorial Toolbox Webclient WSDL / API-A OAI Serviceprovider Repository LDAP Peer Review System WSDL / API-Di. PP WSDL / API-A, API-M OAI Di. PP-Services

Tackling Innovation Explore transitions from e. Journals to repositories “Exploit complex e. Journal structure for ‘simple’ repositories!” a - pre-prints > open review > post prints b - material repositories as journal extensions (> e. Science) c - overlay journals Benchmark interoperability with object models in repositories and middleware systems

Tackling Innovation An excursion on the long way from “simple” ideas to “simple” solutions Building “material repositories” for http: //www. brains-minds-media. org/>>

From Content to Objects structure - articles, collected in volumes, issues, topics, series, supplementary material etc. content - text, bitmap/vector graphics, movies, applets digital objects “folder objects” e. g. journal, container “content-holder objects” e. g. article, data-container “content objects” e. g. xml, pdf, html, multimedia “specification objects” e. g. “oai: Set. DDC 004” for OAI-PMH relationships: extensive use of resource index

Di. PP Content Model #1

Di. PP Content Model #2

Metadata for journal & article objects Id Description DC internal used extended services RELS-EXT/RDF relationships between objects QDC Qualified Dublin Core for articles and journals oai_dc OAI-Provider-Service Epicur URN-Registry

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