Making small data big!
The Biodiversity Data Journal
(BDJ)
Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev, Pavel Stoev,
David Roberts, Vincent Smith
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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
RE-USE
of
CONTENT
Publishing and sharing of primary data
Primary data
So, why do we need another new
journal?
We need to encourage taxonomists to mobilize &
describe their data, especially small data
This takes considerable effort (e.g. GBIF,
Scratchpads experience)
“Arguably” this is best rewarded through credit
This means papers and citations
Process must be very easy for authors
Process must facilitate data reuse
Meet “Open Data” policy commitments
The Biodiversity Data Journal is very
different…
Key features
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ALL DATA MATTERS!
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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.
Workflow
COLLABORATIVE
ARTICLE AUTHORING
(PENSOFT WRITING
TOOL)
Authors, Reviewers, Editors,
Mentors, Copyeditors
ARTICLES
Bibliographies
Occurrence data
XML
submission
Revisions
online
COMMUNITY PEER-REVIEW
(OPTIONS FOR PUBLIC AND
OPEN REVIEW)
ALL ONLINE!
MANUSCRIPT PUBLISHED
XML TEXT + DATA
Taxon treatments
Plazi
Taxon names
Wiki
COL
Penso
Wri ng
Tool
(PWT)
Penso
Journal
System
(PJS)
Peer-review op ons
Public
Community
Closed
Review
Review
Nominated reviewers
requests
Review
Editor
Collabora ve
online wri ng
Panel reviewers
Online edi ng
Review
Editorial
decision & feedback
Public reviewers
Authors
Publica on &
dissemina on
Online edi ng
Author’s revised
manuscript
All reviews assembled into a
single online version
Automated submission
GBIF-generated
manuscripts from
metadata descriptions
Scratchpadsgenerated manuscripts
Automated XML submission
Authors
Conventional manuscripts
(MS Word, Open Office)
Manuscripts
generated from
authors’ databases
Pensoft Journal System
(PJS)
Pensoft Writing Tool
(PWT)
Marked up final publication in PDF, HTML and XML formats
Automated registration
MANUSCRIPT
SUBMISSION
Peer review
XML Query
MANUSCRIPT
ACCEPTED
XML
Response
XML article
metadata
Taxon name available/valid
(effectively published)
ARTICLE
PUBLISHED
Multiple Data Publishing Model of
BDJ
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Supplementary data files downloadable from the
journals’ website
Data deposited at specialized data repositories
(Dryad, Pangaea)
Data published through data repositories but
indexed and collated with other data (GenBank,
GBIF IPT)
Data published in the form of marked-up and
machine-readable text.
Extended use of multimedia and semantic
enhancements
What will BDJ publish?
Single taxon treatments and nomenclatural
acts
Local/regional and habitat-based checklists
Sampling reports and occasional
inventories
Ecological and biological observations of
species and communities
Identification 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)
Contributors
Contribitors
(mentor, linguis c editor, copy editor,
Mentor,
lingustic editor,
poten al reviewer, colleague/friend)
copy editor, colleague
Con
trib
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ite
Inv
Taxon treatment
Taxon
treatment
TemplateTemplate
based
based
manuscript
manuscript
creation
crea on
Lead
author
Lead author
Interactive
key
Interac ve key
Checklist
Checklist
Authoring
Datapaper
paper
Data
Inv
ite
ing
hor
Aut
Coauthors
Co-authors
Collaborative online editing
Rich text capabilities
Various templates for taxon
treatments
Identification keys builder
Species occurrence
data import (Darwin
Core compliant)
Smart citation for
figures, tables,
references &
automated positioning
Assembling plates from single
figures
References import (CrossRef,
PubMed Central, etc.)
Choose article template
Assign classifications
Add occurrence
Add occurrence
Taxon treatment
Add reference
10.3897/phytokeys.17.3190
Manuscript preview
Several more features
Manuscript preview
ID Key
builder
Multi-figure plate builder
Plate layout
ID Key
preview
Why publish in the BDJ?
Joining (small) data into a large data pool
Open-access, archiving and re-using your
data
Citation record for data through peerreviewed publications
Easy online authoring/editorial process for
authors, reviewers and editors
Innovative dissemination of atomized
content
Very 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!
www.pensoft.net/journals/bdj
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