RIOJA APIs and Demos Antony Lewis Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
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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!