DPubS: An Open Source Digital Publishing System

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DPubSAn Open Source Digital Publishing System

• David Ruddy
• Cornell University Library
• DCDP ForumDecember 6, 2005

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DPubSDigital Publishing System

• An electronic publishing application that
  enables.
• publishers to organize, manage, present, and
  deliver both open access and subscription
  controlled scholarly communications and
• users to discover, navigate, and access scholarly
  content.

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Evolution of DPubS

• Origins in Cornell Computer Science department,
  mid-90s
• NCSTRLNetworked Computer Science Technical
  Report Library (1995-98)
• Project Euclid development, 2000-2003
• DPubS development project, 2004-2006

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Functionality developed for Euclid

• Full-text format neutral
• Full-text indexing
• Flexible access control options for publishers
• E-Commerce (pay-per-view)
• OAI 2.0 compliance
• Usage statistics for subscribers/publishers
• Reference linking
• DOI registration
• Referral Service

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Lessons learned from Euclid

• We must accommodate multiple and mixed business
  models
• We must accommodate publishers requests for
  enhancements and greater functionality
• We must expect, and design for, unanticipated
  publishers requests

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DPubS development

• Mandate generalize and enhance the Euclid
  software and release as Open Source
• Funding period 2004-2006
• Development agenda
• Generalize the system
• Add administrative interfaces
• Add editorial management tools
• Allow interoperability with institutional
  repositories, such as Fedora and DSpace

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DPubS Services
Referral Service
Publisher
User
User Interface Service
DPubS Importer
Index Service
Editorial Service
Repository Service
Subscription Service
User Registry Service
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DPubS Services
HTTP
Request verbverbNameversion2.0
Response XML
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DPubS Services
Referral Service
Publisher
User
User Interface Service
DPubS Importer
Index Service
Editorial Service
Repository Service
Subscription Service
User Registry Service
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Examples of DPubS v. 1.0

• Project Euclid
• Indonesia
• Pennsylvania History
• Dukes Physiology of Domestic Animals

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Generalization of DPubSmajor

• Redesigned User Interface Service
• Goals
• Move UI customization out of core code
• UI is now xml/xslt driven
• Page components now assembled by UI
• UIC document governs XSL pipeline that produces
  final HTML page

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Generalization of DPubSmajor

• Employ a more abstract, and configurable,
  definition of
• Object types (document structures)
• Metadata types (metadata schemes/formats)
• Object types can have multiple metadata
  types/formats
• Dynamic formats

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Generalization of DPubSmajor

• Allow for collections
• Grouping mechanism may contain publications or
  other collections
• Allows for common presentation characteristics,
  for all members of the collection
• Publications can have presentations independent
  of a collection

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Generalization of DPubSalso

• Modernize all services
• Major rewrite Registry, Collection, Repo, Index
• Normalize all service requests and responses
• Redesign internal communications
• Creation of DPubS XML parserDXML
• Creation of DPubS Importer
• General clean-up of code
• Redesign packaging of all code
• Documentation

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Examples of DPubS v. 2.0

• DPubS development site
• Penn History
• Euclid collection

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Administrative interfaces

• Rationalize production workflow
• Web interfaces to manage administrative processes
• Goals
• Definition and simplification of workflows
• Lowering production costs
• Reduction of risk

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DPubS Services
Referral Service
Publisher
User
User Interface Service
DPubS Importer
Index Service
Editorial Service
Repository Service
Subscription Service
Admin UI Service
Collection Service
User Registry Service
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Editorial management services

• Support manuscript management and peer review
  activities
• Manuscript submission
• Reviewing
• Document tracking
• Organization of publications
• Publishing content (making public)

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DPubS Services
Referral Service
Publisher
User
User Interface Service
DPubS Importer
Index Service
Editorial Service
Repository Service
Subscription Service
Admin UI Service
Submission Service
Collection Service
User Registry Service
Author
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Interoperate with institutional repository systems

• Identified IRs DSpace, Fedora
• Why?
• Where the content resides
• Division of labor publishing vs. archiving
• DPubS becomes an application layer on top of IR
• DPubS Repository Service functions as an API to
  Institutional Repository

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DPubS Services
Referral Service
Publisher
User
User Interface Service
DPubS Importer
Index Service
Editorial Service
Repository Service
Subscription Service
Admin UI Service
Submission Service
Collection Service
User Registry Service
Author
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Technical requirements

• Perl, mod_perl, apache, other common OS tools
• Hardware Sun and Intel boxes
• OS Sun Solaris (9, 10), Linux

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• DPubS
• http//dpubs.org
• dwr4_at_cornell.edu
• Center for Innovative Publishing
• http//cip.cornell.edu