RIOJA APIs and Demos

Antony LewisInstitute 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

Repository Journal

API

Paper metadata

Author authentication

Publication status

Integrated submission

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 SourceRIOJA 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

• 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

• Some work still to do- support for metadata with equations, latex display, referee report publication, options for different ways of handling copyediting

• Then just need some good editors and a small amount money…

Test site: http://arxivjournal.org/Source code and information: http://arxivjournal.org/riojaAPI specification:http://cosmologist.info/xml/APIs.html

Volunteers to help testing very welcome!