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MECA: Manuscript ExchangeCommon Approach
Sally Ubnoske, Senior Business Systems Analyst, [email protected]
What’s the Problem?• Authorsareirritatedattime,effort,delayswhenre-submitting
articles• Reviewers’timeiswastedwhenreviewsarere-doneorreplicated• Newpublicationflowsdemandtransfersto/frompreprintservers• Eachworkflowsystemhastoimplementseparateinterfacesto
eachothersystem– inefficienttowork‘pairwise’
Opportunity• Acommonapproachtomovingmanuscriptssolvestheaboveuse
casesandcanalsosolvesomeadditionalworkflowproblems!• Allweneedisforagroupofcompetitorstocollaborate!
Metadata
Files
Destination
• Agroupofvendorsandpublisherso Aries:EditorialManagero Clarivate:ScholarOneo eJournalPress:eJPresso HighWire:BenchPresso PLOS:Aperta
• Developacommonapproacho Notsoftware,notacentralservice,notadatabaseo Recommendedbestpracticeso Non-proprietary,CC-BY
• Hopeforwideadoptiono Outreach,NISO,JATS4R,JATScon
Use Cases – Manuscript Transfers Across Boundaries
Journal• SubmissionSystemtoSubmissionSystem(primary)Preprint• PreprintSystemto/fromSubmissionSystem(primary)Syndication:Importfrom…• AuthoringSystemstoSubmissionSystem (primary)Syndication:Exportto…• SubmissionSystemtoVariousServices (secondary)
Project Areas
ü Vocabularyü Packagingü Taggingü PeerReviewü TransferInformationü Identityü Transmission
Project Areas – Vocabulary
• Goal:Toprovideastandardnomenclature• Providesabaselineforunderstanding• Includes4UseCases• IncludesTerm,Definition,Synonym,‘Often-confused-with’
alternatives,andExamples• Includes70+Terms
o Publishingtermslike‘Author’,‘Review’,‘DownstreamProcessing’o Technicaltermslike‘BITS’,‘Interoperability’,‘MimeType’
• Canbeupdatedovertime
Project Areas - Packaging• Goal:simple,flexible,standardwaytoassemblefiles• ZipFile• Teamwillregisteranew‘mimetype’andfileextensionforthepackage• Onemanuscriptperzipfile• Packagecontains:
o Manifest.xml*(newDTDforfilemanifest)o Transfer.xml*(newDTDforsource/destination,contact,and
securityinformation)o Article.xml(JATS-compliant)o PeerReview.xml(optional- JATS-like)o Sourcefiles
* Required Item
Project Areas - Tagging• Goal:Tobeabletopasssubmissioninformationfromsystemtosystem• Article.xml (fileinJATSformat– GreenDTDcompliant)• Definesminimalrequireddata*• OnlythehighestrevisionofthesubmissioniswrittentotheXML
o ArticleIdentifiers(ManuscriptNumber,UUID,DOI)o ArticleTitle*o ArticleType,Category,Classifications,Keywordso CorrespondingAuthor*andCo-Authors(withaffiliations)o Relatedarticles,Preprintso FundingInformation,CustomMetadatao Figures,tables,supplementarymaterial
Project Areas – Peer Review Data• Goal:Tobeabletopassreviewinformationfromsystemtosystem
o Questions/Answerso Ratingso Commentso Annotationso Redlines/Markedupfiles
• Privacyo Reviewernames/contactinformationcanberedactedo Basedonsendingjournal’sprivacypolicy
• Reviews.xml (fileissimilartoJATS)o Decidedinformationdoesnotbelonginarticle.xmlo Multiplereviews&revisionsinonefileo DTDhas~16tags/elements
Project Areas – Transfer Information• Goal:Tobeabletopasstransferinformationfromsystemtosystemo SourceInformation
§ ServiceProvider§ ContactInformation§ PublicationType,Title,Acronym
o DestinationInformation§ ServiceProvider§ ContactInformation§ PublicationType,Title,Acronym
o SecurityInformation§ AuthenticationCode
o ProcessingInstructions
• Transfer.xml (newDTD)
Project Areas - Identity• Goal:Unique,consistentidentity acrosssystems• Uniqueidentifier
o Whenmanuscriptsarepassedfromsystemtosystemo Articlenumber,butnotjournalspecific
• DOIwasconsideredo NeedforsomethingwithoutaDOI‘prefix’orimpliedsource
• Universallyuniqueidentifier- UUIDo Type1
§ Date,time,MACAddress,randomnumber§ d6bf8782-30f7-4cd7-82a8-94ff62352ac4§ Guaranteesnocollisionsacrossvendors§ Supportfoundinmanystandardcodinglibraries
Project Areas - Transmission
• Goal:Simple,consistentwaytosendtheinformation acrosssystems
• FTPuntilJanuary2018/SFTP(FTPoverSSH)in2018
o Phase1
o Asynchronous
• Potentialfuturedevelopment– movetoAPI(REST,SWORD)
o Providestatusmessagetosender
o Synchronous
o Influencedbyspecificusecases
Action Items & Timeline
2017
2018 • ExpandtheWorkingGroupo Lookingtoincludediversesetofstakeholderso Interested?Lookatmanuscriptexchange.orgoremailinfo@manuscriptexchange.org
• NISOapplication,ifappropriateo Willneedcommunityvolunteerstoparticipateinthatprocess
• VendorandSupplierImplementations
• Presenttoorganizationsandcommunitiesofinteresto JATS-Con,CASRAI,SSP,OASPA,Force11,STM,ISMTE,CSE,ALPSP…o Authoringplatforms,compositionvendors,repositories,preprintservers…
• Gatherinputfromtheseinterestedpartieso Inputviamanuscriptexchange.org
• HostInformationalWebinarso GeneralandTechnicalsessionsplannedforJuly/August
• Buildtrial/pilot/referenceimplementationo Refineapproachanddocumentation
Interested in Participating?
• Additional Information on our web page:
www.manuscriptexchange.org
• Contact us – comment on documents/plans, volunteer:
