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Solution for Publication Management: PubMan supports scientists and institutes in the management and the digital curation of their publications. This solution addresses all disciplines and focuses on the target groups scientists, local librarians and local IT. Due to the heterogeneous policies, cultures and workflows of the Max Planck Institutes, customization and configuration options throughout the solution's features are of major importance.

PubMan is the working title for this solution. Everybody is welcome to suggest alternatives on the discussion page.

Basic functionalities

For better overview, we divide the basic functionalities of the repository into three main areas of interaction with users and/or systems:

• Submitting content
• Managing content
• (Re-)Using content

Basic concepts

For proper design of the solution and its features and alignment with conditions applied to other services, you find here an overview of our basic functional concepts.

• Versioning
• Control of Named Entities
• Persistent Identification
• Collections and Organizational Units
• Metadata

Non-functional requirements

• The client application has to be web browser based.
• The system has to support multiple languages.
• The initial languages are English and German.
• All Data are stored in UTF 8.
• All web pages have to support 'heat maps' to track mouse clicks. An apache webserver must be installed. PHP must be installed with the graphic library GD (PNG support is mandatory). ClickHeat version 1.2 (http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html) has to be installed. The All pages generated by escidoc must contain javascript code to track mouse click events.

Publication Management

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