1. I n i t i a t i v e f o r O p e n A c c e s s e J o u r n a l s Fedora-basedPublication-System for Open Access eJournals

2. Mission  foundation of new and expansion of existing scientific electronic journals  customizable workflow within a common publication system  promotion of new methods of web-based cooperative information management  fast, open and transparent digital peer publishing

3. Components and Middleware Peer-Review-System :Document Management :User Management :Content Management Publication System LDAP-Auth DiPP-Services :URN Management :Document Conversion :Hierarchy :Content :Metadata Fedora Repository SOAP OAI

6. Publication Pipeline: Review 1:submit 2:review 4:transfer 3:accept or deny AuthorReferee Editor :Review engine :Repository engine

7. Publication Pipeline: Editorship Author Editor Reader :Repository engine :Editorial manager :Publication Engine 11:read 9:give imprimatur 10:publish 6:convert 5:assign URN 7:retrieve 8:edit :Conversion engine

8. DiPP-Services 1  Conversion-Service  customizable stylesheets conversion engine XSLT  preparation for long term preservation  statistics

9. DiPP-Services 2  URN-Service  persistent identifier for journals, articles, supplementary material  Distribution-Service  registration for OAI-Harvesting  RSS-feeds  Email-”Alert” etc.

10. DiPP-Services 3  Hierarchy-Service  defined in “administrative metadata” datastream  child-list, parent-list  cModel metadata-field defines element obj: journal obj: container obj: article obj: content ds: xmlds: htmlds: image obj: content...obj: content...

11. Fedora-is it good enough?  pros  highly modularized architecture  versioning of datastreams  addition of own metadata formats  cons  added metadata in own formats are not searchable  inconsistent versioning of API-A and API-M methods from Fedora 1 to Fedora 2

12. Summary and Outlook  DINI-Certification  standardisation of document and publication server  full-text indexation via FAST-search-engine  improvement of usability  workflow based publication system  extended services on top of Fedora

13. Contact dipp@hbz-nrw.de Dr. Wolfram Horstmannhorstmann@hbz-nrw.de++49-221 / 40075-173 Dr. Peter Reimer reimer@hbz-nrw.de++49-221 / 40075-197 Jochen Schirrwagen schirrwagen@hbz-nrw.de++49-221 / 40075-460