Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT

Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT

From prototypes to industry standards: Markup, semantic enhancements and automated dissemination of content

from the viewpoint of a biodiversity publisher

Lyubomir PenevPensoft Publishers

info@pensoft.net

ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity

Workpackage 6Scholarly publishing

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Who we are & what we do (and why we are in ViBRANT?)

Pensoft Publishers is a private independent enterprise (SME)

Launched in 1992: more than 650 books published, 85 % in English, mostly in biodiversity science and natural history, for authors from all around the world

Operates from two offices, in Sofia and Moscow, 12 employes

Launched its first open access journal ZooKeys (in zoological taxonomy) in July 2008; untill now, ZooKeys published 75 issues and more than 15,000 pages; with 42 issues published in 2010 ZooKeys became a weekly journal!

CrossRef member, ISI and Scopus covered, indexed in Zoological Record, DOAJ, CABI Abstracts, Google Scholar; the first taxonomy journal approved for archiving in PubMedCentral; Impact Factor 1.133 in the 3rd year of existence

TRIADA – Pensoft’s digital publishing platform launched in November 2010 (www.pensoft.net)

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Virtual BiodiversityViBRANTSemantic enhancements to published texts

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So, we have already that...

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But need to this......

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PersistentIdentifiers

Open Journal System

SubmissionSubmission

AcceptanceAcceptance

RevisionRevision

Peer ReviewPeer Review

PublicationPublication

Registry

GBRDS

DoI

DistributedMetadata Catalogues

Metadata Authors

GBIF Metadata Repository

Biodiversity Data Journal

The GBIF perspective

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What we will do in ViBRANT• Establish an automated publication workflow (“push-button submission”) of taxon

descriptions from Scratchpads to ZooKeys and PhytoKeys; • Establish a similar automated publication workflow of data paper manuscripts from

GBIF• Develop and implement a platform for online open peer review and editorial process• Implement the workflows through the a newly established, open-access, next-

generation journal - Biodiversity Data Journal• Review and implement various semantic Web enhancements to taxonomic papers (e.

g., data publication, cross-linking, data integration between papers, facilitated automated discovery, indexing and aggregation, online mapping, and others).

• Develope tools for automated dissemination of the published information automatically to biodiversity indexers and aggregators (EOL, FBIF, Plazi, ZooBank, IPNI, and many others)

• Work with other publishers (especially society and museum journals) to promote and implement innovative publishing methods and tools

• Last but not least, explore and implement the Wiki environment as publishing and dissemination tool

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Interdependencies with other WPs and partners

• Testing and development of a published version of the TaxPub XML Schema – the basis for the XML-based publication workflow; ensure compliance of TaxPub with Scratchpads and GBIF inputs and with dissemination outputs; ensure compliance with TaxonX and TaXMLit to provide standard outputs for end users (e.g., taxon treatments) (YEAR 1st) (NHM, GBIF, OU, KIT, JKI, WP4, WP8, ext.: Plazi)

• Creating and implementing tools to provide a complete XML-based workflow, from submission, through online open peer review and editorial process, to publishing and automated dissemination (YEAR 2nd) (NHM, GBIF, KIT, OU; ext.: EOL, Plazi, Zoobank, Zoological Record, IPNI, Mycobank, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, etc.)

• Application of the workflow in the Biodiversity Data Journal and make it compliant to other journals (YEAR 3rd) (NHM, GBIF, WP5 (API design), WP8, etc.)

• Promotion and outreach of what we do (WP3)

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Who are our users & how will they engage?Taxonomists as authors of mansucripts submitted via the Scratchpads, GBIF or

other networksEcologists, conservationists, decision makers, all interested readers and end users

of the published informationBibliographic databases and archives (BHL, PubMedCentral and other)Content management platform for indexing and aggregating biodiversity

information (GBIF, EOL, Plazi, Wiki-environment, etc.)Electronic registers of nomenclatural acts (IPNI, Mycobank, ZooBank)End users of unforeseen range and scope – conservationosts, ecologists, NGOs,

policy makers, governmental organisations)Small-scale taxonomy publishers (e.g., society or museum journals)

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Usage engagement metrics

Website visits, & downloadsNumber of mansucripts submitted and publishedNumber of datasets submitted and published Creating new jobs after ViBRANT and market progress