Making small data big!The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ)

Lyubomir Penev, Jordan Biserkov, Teodor Georgiev, Pavel Stoev, David Roberts, Vincent Smith

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One more new journal?Why?

The problem

Primary data

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A solution

Primary data

Publishing and sharing of primary data

RE-USEof

CONTENT

So, why one more new journal?

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

Key features

Collaborative article authoringOnline peer-review and editingCommunity peer review; options for “open” and “public” reviewStandard-compliant (DwC, NLM DTD)Biological Codes compliant article templatesNo lower/upper limit of manuscript sizeSemantically enhanced “articles of the future”Integrated with GBIF, EOL, Dryad Scratchpads, etc.ALL DATA MATTERS!

Automated submission

Automated XML submission

Automated registrationMANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED

XML Response

ARTICLEPUBLISHED

Taxon name available/valid (effectively published)

XML article metadata

XML Query

Peer review

Multiple Data Publishing Models1. Supplementary data files downloadable from the

journals’ website2. 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 (XML). 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

PENSOFT WRITING TOOL(PWT)

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

DarwinCore occurrence data form

SUBMISSION STEPS

Submission steps

All metadata autom. transferred

Authors can choose review types

Authors can suggest reviewers

MANUSCRIPT VIEWS

Author; manuscript submitted

Editor; pre-review evaluation

Editor; assign Subject editor

Subject editor; invite reviewers

Online editing; changes tracking

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!

BDJ will make your data count by:

Collating (small) data into a large data poolOpen-access, archiving and re-using your data through data aggregators Providing citation record and creditability for data through peer-reviewed publicationsUsing innovative dissemination of atomized contentLow-cost model: Free in the launch phase, thereafter at a fee that anyone can afford!

What the experts say? "Science is a combination of gathering facts and making theories; neither can progress on its own. [...] In the history of science, the laborious accumulation of facts is the dominant mode, not a novelty."

Peter Norvig, Director of Research @ Google Inc.

Thank you for your attention!

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