„Serving Innovation …“ ElPub2006 – Workshop Wolfram Horstmann 2006/06/14 I n i t i a t i v e f o r I n n o v a t i o n i n S c h o l a r l y C o m m u n i c a t i o n

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

Organisation Publishing Service Structure Authors Referees Editorial Board Readers Editor/Chief Editorial office admin. eJournal Institution …          local  techn. Infrastructure Support § Licences  Distribution

 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 Some data

Some more data 2005

 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/LaTeX -> 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 … DiPP-Services

…  Distribution  indexing in search engines / databases - z.B. ISSN, EZB, DOAJ, OAISTER  automat. notification of metadata and articles - via OAI-PMH / -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 DiPP-Services

 platform DiPP-Services LDAP OAI WSDL / API-A Serviceprovider HTTP OAIWSDL / API-A, API-M WSDL / API-DiPP Peer Review System DiPP-Services Editorial Toolbox Repository (2) review Service- provider Referees Author Chief editor Editorial office Reader (4) OAI (1) submit (3) release document (7) edit (9) Reads/ comments (8) distribution (5) Webservice (6) Web- service Service-provider (8) distribution       Publication-System / Editorial Toolbox Peer Review-System DiPP-Services Document conversion & transformation URN Management Ingest preparation Metadata Management Object Relationship Repository Workflow enabled Customized eJournal instances User Management Content Management Workflow enabled Document submission form Reviewing management Metadata Database Management API (API-M) Access API (API-A) Field search OAI

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

 An excursion on the long way from “simple” ideas to “simple” solutions  Building “material repositories” for Tackling Innovation

From Content to Objects  structure - articles, collected in volumes, issues, topics, series, supplementary material etc.  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:SetDDC004” for OAI-PMH  content - text, bitmap/vector graphics, movies, applets  relationships: extensive use of resource index

DiPP Content Model #1

DiPP Content Model #2

Metadata for journal & article objects IdDescription DCinternal used extended services RELS-EXT/RDFrelationships between objects QDCQualified Dublin Core for articles and journals oai_dcOAI-Provider-Service EpicurURN-Registry

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