Making small data big!The Biodiversity Data

Journal (BDJ)Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev, Pavel Stoev,

David Roberts, Vincent Smith

ViBRANT

One more new journal?Why?

The problem

Source: Wikipedia

Primary data Drawings: slavenapeneva.com

… and some hundreds millions pages of biodiversity literature in various languages

Estimated ca 1.8 Mio articles per annum, not counting the grey

literature!

A solution

Primary data

Publishing and sharing of primary data

RE-USEof

CONTENT

We need to encourage taxonomists to mobilize & describe their data, especially small dataThis takes considerable effort (e.g. GBIF, Scratchpads experience)“Arguably” this is best rewarded through creditThis means papers and citationsProcess must be very easy for authorsProcess must facilitate data reuseMeet “Open Data” policy commitments

The Biodiversity Data Journal is very different…

So, why do we need another new journal?

Key features Collaborative article authoring Online peer-review and editing Community peer review; options

for “open” and “public” review Standard-compliant (DwC, NLM

DTD) Biological Codes compliant

article templates No lower/upper limit of

manuscript size Semantically enhanced “articles

of the future” Integrated with GBIF, EOL,

Dryad Scratchpads, etc.

ALL DATA MATTERS!

Workflow COMMUNITY PEER-REVIEW (OPTIONS FOR PUBLIC AND

OPEN REVIEW)ALL ONLINE!

COLLABORATIVE ARTICLE AUTHORING (PENSOFT WRITING

TOOL)

MANUSCRIPT PUBLISHEDXML TEXT + DATA

Authors, Reviewers, Editors, Mentors, Copyeditors

XML submission

Revisions online

ARTICLES Occurr-ence data Taxon namesTaxon treatments

Plazi Wiki COL

Biblio-graphies

Automated submission

Automated XML submission

Automated registrationMANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED

XML Response

ARTICLEPUBLISHED

Taxon name available/valid (effectively published)

XML article metadata

XML QueryPeer review

Multiple Data Publishing Model of BDJ

1. Supplementary data files downloadable from the journals’ website

2. Data deposited at specialized data repositories (Dryad, Pangaea)

3. Data published through data repositories but indexed and collated with other data (GenBank, GBIF IPT)

4. Data published in the form of marked-up and machine-readable text.

5. Extended use of multimedia and semantic enhancements

What will BDJ publish?

Single taxon treatments and nomenclatural acts Local/regional and habitat-based checklistsSampling reports and occasional inventoriesEcological and biological observations of species and communitiesIdentification keys Data papers for any biodiversity-related type of data (genomic, phylogenetic, ecological, environmental, etc.)Descriptions of biodiversity-related software tools and workflows

Recruiting editors now!

Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT)

Collaborative online editing Rich text capabilities Various templates for taxon treatments Identification keys builder

Assembling plates from single figures References import (CrossRef, PubMed Central, etc.)

Species occurrence data import (Darwin Core compliant) Smart citation for figures, tables, references & automated positioning

Taxon treatment

Interactive key

Checklist

Data paper

Template based

manuscript creation

Coauthors

Lead author

ContribitorsMentor, lingustic editor, copy editor, colleague

Choose article template

Assign classifications

Add occurrence

Add occurrence

Taxon treatment

Add reference

10.3897/phytokeys.17.3190

Manuscript preview

Several more features

ID Keypreview

Multi-figure plate builder Plate layout

ID Keybuilder

Manuscript preview

Why publish in the BDJ?

Joining (small) data into a large data poolOpen-access, archiving and re-using your dataCitation record for data through peer-reviewed publicationsEasy online authoring/editorial process for authors, reviewers and editorsInnovative dissemination of atomized contentVery low-cost! Free in the launch phase, thereafter at fee that anyone can afford!

Coming in two months!

Editor Application Form http://www.pensoft.net/journals/bdj/editor_form.html

Thank you for your attention!

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