RIOJA APIs and Demos

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RIOJA APIs and Demos
Antony Lewis Institute of Astronomy,
Cambridge http//cosmologist.info/
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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
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RIOJA APIs
API
Journal
Repository
Paper metadata
Author authentication
Integrated submission
Publication status
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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

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Journal Software

• Based on Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  http//pkp.sfu.ca/?qojs
• 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.
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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/rioja API
specificationhttp//cosmologist.info/xml/APIs.ht
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Volunteers to help testing very welcome!