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Description & Objectives

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Year three effort

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Develop novel tools and workflows to streamline the publication process at all stages, starting from authoring, through peer-review and editing, to publishing and dissemination. Develop and promote XML tagging and semantic Web publishing in the biodiversity domain. Establish a novel data publishing platform.

• Automated submission, review and publication from Scratchpads and GBIF

• New methods of XML tagging• Streamline the scholarly publication process• Automated deposition of taxon descriptions• Highly automated data publishing workflow• Semantic enhancements to biodiversity publications

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Activities

Year three deliverables

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D6.3 Data publication workflow

• ReFindit tool• Bibliography of Life, RefBank and ReFindit

interface design• Five research papers• ViBRANT special issue published• Another ViBRANT special issue assembled

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Biodiversity Data Journal and Pensoft Writing Tool:• a next-generation, narrative (text) and data integrated, publishing workflow• authoring, peer review and publication within a single platform, for the first time• community peer review

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Foreground

Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT)An entirely XML-based, manuscript authoring, online, collaborative platform, integrated with peer-review, editorial, publishing and dissemination tools.

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Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ)

Novel, community peer-reviewed, open-access journal, launched to accelerate mobilisation, dissemination and sharing of biodiversity-related data through the act of scholarly publishing.

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Description

Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT)

•Full article life cycle, from writing to publication and dissemination•Upfront XML markup •Submit at the click of a button• Import Darwin Core and other data into text•Automated import of manuscripts generated in various platforms•A set of pre-defined article templates•Easy online collaborative editing by co-authors and peers•No layout stage, reduced publication costs!

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Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ)

•Making “small” data “big”!•No lower/upper limit of manuscript size•Articles structured and stored as DATA•Community ownership of data•Download data straight from the text•A novel community-based peer-review•Easy online collaborative revisions•Post-publication peer-review•Free to publish for now•Low page charges in future affordable by all

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KPI – Impact - Sustainability

• Innovative, XML-based publishing workflows, proven successful; currently a model for other publishers to follow

• Increased dissemination and re-use of published content

• “Small” data publishing in BDJ: a globally unique and viable data mobilisation tool

• Educational and sociological impact of data publishing and sharing

• Low production costs will ensure reduced page charges and facilitate sustainability

• The PWT/BDJ workflow has potential to expand in other domains

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Follow up activities

• Expansion of the PWT/BDJ workflow in other domains, in first place Genomics, Biomedicine, Agricuture, etc.

• Launch of industry standard, XML-based data publishing platform as a service for other journals or publishers

• Further promotion and increased number of users of PWT/BDJ• Adoption of XML markup and semantic enhancements by other journals• Further automation of input and output data publishing formats • Closer integration with Scratchpads, GBIF, and other data suppliers• Possible solution for the “dark” taxa problem• Re-publishing and databasing of historical literature

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