Peer: Author Deposit

This page contains the specification of author deposits in the PEER project.

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Submission of Publications

Authors are invited to self deposit publications to the PEER repositories.

Status/Schedule

• Status: in design

Actors

• Depositor

Flow of Events

• 1. A user chooses to deposit his publication to the PEER depot.
• 2. The user can enter basic metadata into a webform
• 3. The user can upload a file
  • 3.1. The system checks the file mimetype and gives an error message when the file is not recognized as an pdf.
• 4. The user can select the journal name from a provided list
• 5. The user can send the metadata and the file to the peer depot.
  • 5.1. The user needs to fill out a capture to avoid spamming
• 6 The webform performs a simple validation
  • 6.1. The webform content is validated successfully
  • 6.2. The webform content is validated unsuccessfully and the user gets a feedback that the content was not sent (he can change the content and try again).
• 7. The content is send to the PEER depot via FTP
  • 7.1. The content can successfully be deposited to the peer depot - the use case ends successful.
  • 7.2. The PEER depot is unavailable, the user gets a message, that the content could not be transferred to the PEER depot - the use case ends unsuccessful.

Open Questions

• What metadata can the user enter?
• What are the minimal requirements of metadata (validation)?
• In what format do we send the metadata to the PEER depot?

Processing and Deposit of Publications

All further steps (including duplicate check) will be developed by INRIA.

Publishing and the Ecology of European Research

Portable Document Format

File Transport Protocol