Service activities ViBRANT Project Year 3/Final Review Meeting – Brussels Description & Objectives WP Description WP Objectives WP partners Year three effort The logos of the partners will be included at the final stage of merging all the presentations – Do not fill this in 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 PM WP6: Scholarly Publishing

Service activities ViBRANT Project Year 3/Final Review Meeting – Brussels Activities Year three deliverables Other year three activities 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 Biodiversity Data JournalBiodiversity Data Journal and Pensoft Writing Tool: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 WP6: Scholarly Publishing

Service activities ViBRANT Project Year 3/Final Review Meeting – Brussels Foreground Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT) An entirely XML-based, manuscript authoring, online, collaborative platform, integrated with peer-review, editorial, publishing and dissemination tools. 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. WP6: Scholarly Publishing

Service activities ViBRANT Project Year 3/Final Review Meeting – Brussels 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 textDarwin Core 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! WP6: Scholarly Publishing

Service activities ViBRANT Project Year 3/Final Review Meeting – Brussels Description 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 WP6: Scholarly Publishing

Service activities ViBRANT Project Year 3/Final Review Meeting – Brussels 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 Flying start and increasing usage of PWT/BDJ Workflow WP6: Scholarly Publishing

Service activities ViBRANT Project Year 3/Final Review Meeting – Brussels 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 WP6: Scholarly Publishing

Service activities ViBRANT Project Year 3/Final Review Meeting – Brussels WP6: Scholarly Publishing Welcome aboard!