Transcript RIOJA APIs and Demos Antony Lewis Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge http://cosmologist.info/ Technical Objectives • Develop open API for communication between repositories and journals (AL) • Develop.

RIOJA APIs and Demos
Antony Lewis
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
http://cosmologist.info/
Technical Objectives
• Develop open API for communication between repositories and
journals (AL)
• Develop software for hosting overlaid journals using the API
(outsourced to MetaOme in Bangalore, overseen by AL)
• Demonstrate journal software using API implemented on arXiv.org
repository
(arXiv API implementation by Simeon Warner)
• Develop version of ePrints repository software for to make complete
open source package for any subject area
(still in progress by MetaOme)
Software development costs ~ £4000 + AL time
+ OJS-developed Latex plugin ~ £200
+ web hosting ~ £200/year
RIOJA APIs
API
Paper metadata
Author authentication
Repository
Integrated submission
Publication status
Journal
Specific issues
• Paper version tracking
- only a specific version of the paper on the repository will be “published”
• Science-specific issues like handling of equations
• Options for publication of referee reports and open comments
Journal Software
• Based on Open Journal Systems (OJS)
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
• Submission via repository ID
• Continuous publication and simplifications
(no issues, print version, subscriptions..)
• Modifications for easier workflow management (keywords)
• Open Source
RIOJA version available at http://arxivjournal.org/rioja/
Flash submission demo available at http://arxivjournal.org/rioja/
Editorial/Referee system demo on request.
Conclusions
•
Software and API infrastructure now mostly in place
- academics who want to run journals covering costs themselves can do so
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Make any number of journals based on any number of repositories in any
subject areas
•
Aim to have suite of open source software for easily setting up repositories
and journals
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Some work still to do
- support for metadata with equations, latex display, referee report publication,
options for different ways of handling copyediting
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Then just need some good editors and a small amount money…
Test site: http://arxivjournal.org/
Source code and information: http://arxivjournal.org/rioja
API specification:http://cosmologist.info/xml/APIs.html
Volunteers to help testing very welcome!