Thread by @EmmaE_B

"The established supply chain for scholarly books presents a major challenge for small or new #OA publishers to thrive. Specialised title management systems, for instance, are difficult to access and many systems are not oriented to #openaccess books." #ScalingSmall #OABooks

"@COPIMproject has dedicated time and attention to this issue developing @Thoth_metadata, a #metadata management system, that aims to level the playing field between large and small publishers by alleviating some of the difficulties faced by scholar-led presses."
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@COPIMproject @Thoth_metadata Everything about @Thoth_metadata is #OpenSource on Github - the database includes chapter-level #metadata for #OABooks
Plus #DOIs #RORids #ORCids with mappings between multiple #metadata schema including MARC
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Crucially, the #metadata is #open as well as the content - all #metadata is available under a CC0 licence & is tailor-made for #OABooks for use across multiple platforms
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The @Thoth_metadata databases only contains #metadata, not the content itself; but @COPIMproject is working with the @internetarchive on an archiving network for the #OAbooks content #ScalingSmall

@Thoth_metadata @COPIMproject @internetarchive Next steps for @Thoth_metadata:
- Develop a traffic light system to perform quality control
- Help publishers to ensure compatibility with different #metadata dissemination platforms
- Enable multilingual exports
- Developing a long-term sustainable business model #ScalingSmall

This will mean a mixture of free and paid-for services for publishers across the range of @Thoth_metadata Ingest & Export functions & support/training
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Now insights from @LucyMontgomery_ and the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (@COKIproject) about the @BookAnalytics Dashboard project - (BAD) which aims to support diversity in the voices, perspectives, geographies, topics, & languages made visible through #OABooks
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The @BookAnalytics Dashboard Project builds on @MellonFdn initiative to develop a Pilot Data Trust for #OABooks Usage; providing an analytics service as a sustainable community infrastructure for OA book stakeholders #ScalingSmall

@BookAnalytics @MellonFdn @BookAnalytics dashboards rely on an #ONIX feed (editeur.org/8/ONIX/) of #metadata that can be validated - screenshot shows an example of the dashboard for @OpenBookPublish using the API from @Thoth_metadata
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Nina Tscheke (@NTscheke) explains that @Science_Open is now working with @Thoth_metadata to create interoperable interfaces for #metadata and #data curation for #OABooks #BookMetaHub
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#metadata disconnect in the ecosystem for #OABooks - metadata sources from publishers are aimed at distribution channels via book sellers & library systems, but the formats do not support book & chapter-level elements & PIDs aimed at indexing in digital environments #ScalingSmall

#BookMetaHub enables an ONIX or MARC feed to be enhanced for inclusion in @CrossrefOrg with support for inclusion of DOIs, ORCiD IDs, ROR IDs & open data linking #ScalingSmall

Connecting #BookMetaHub with @Thoth_metadata means that publishers can share quality interoperable #metadata freely (#open)
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@Thoth_metadata This provides a solution for:
- easy #metadata creation, maintenance & delivery
- ensuring best practices & interoperability
- best visibility #discoverability & distribution
- a more robust inclusive #open publishing ecosystem
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@john_willinsky from Public Knowledge Project (@pkp) describes distributed labour workflows at the Open Monograph Press (pkp.sfu.ca/software/omp/) using dashboards to enable editors to collaborate & manage #OABooks & their associated #metadata
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Open Monograph Press uses #OpenInfrastructure & #OpenSoftware to publish & distribute #OABooks & empower stakeholders to collaborate during the editorial and peer-review process #ScalingSmall

The panel speaks to securing long-term funding for #OpenInfrastructure projects for #OABooks as well as ensuring coordination between different experimental publishing projects so they aren't put in competition with each other #ScalingSmall

Next up: Experimental Publishing Compendium Launch! - @COPIMproject WP6 bringing together publishers, technologists, researchers, & authors to devise strategies to promote experimental book publishing & the reuse of, & engagement with, #OABooks. #ScalingSmall

@COPIMproject WP6 proposed experiments into what the form & format of the scholarly book could become in a digital environment - including looking at multimedia elements & experimenting with how scholarship can be produced disseminated & consumed #ScalingSmall #OABooks

The research outputs from WP6 'Experimental Publishing and Reuse,' and details of the pilot projects can be found at: copim.ac.uk/workpackage/wp…
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The Experimental Publishing Compendium will provide an online resource for academic experimental publishing. It will offer publishers, authors, platform and tool providers information about book typologies, practices, sensitivities, tools and workflows. #ScalingSmall #OABooks

@JannekeAdema @SimonXIX & @hardyjuls describe how the Compendium aims to provide inspiration & guidance for experimental publications by linking various building blocks & demonstrating how they might fit together. #ScalingSmall #OABooks

Connections can be made between different experimental practices, tools & books that exemplify them - Researchers can use the Experimental Publishing Compendium as a community owned resource to develop new forms of book publication #ScalingSmall #OABooks

As part of the @COPIMproject, the Compendium is #open and community-driven, based on #OpenInfrastructure that can provide an alternative to platform capitalism which extracts value by monopolising access. compendium.copim.ac.uk
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The Experimental Publishing Compendium will be a key part of the Open Book Futures project copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-book-…
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The hope is to build relationships between software & tool providers, publishers, librarians, researchers, & authors, working with & strengthening communities of expertise around experimental books. #ScalingSmall #OABooks

Some detail now on 3 experimental book pilots that will be supported by the Open Book Futures project (OBF).
The computational book publishing pilot project uses Linked Data from @wikidata to harvest & format bibliographic #metadata & build a new catalogue
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@wikidata @Rebekka_Kie covers Combinatorial Books Gathering Flowers pilot - a collaboration with Open Humanities Press (@openhumanities) to explore & encourage rewriting of books as a means of generating radical new responses to them. #ScalingSmall copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinator…

@wikidata @Rebekka_Kie @openhumanities 9 authors are rewriting "The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness," by the philosopher Michael Marder and the artist Anaïs Tondeur, published by OHP in their Critical Climate Change series. #ScalingSmall #OABooks

The authors are producing a book-length response to "The Chernobyl Herbarium," titled "Ecological Re-writing as Disappropriation: Situated Engagements with the Chernobyl Herbarium" published on PubPub. #ScalingSmall #OABooks

@hardyjuls: "Performing Patents Otherwise" pilot project is a collaboration between @matteringpress & Politics of Patents research project exploring how books can be brought together with archival data to create new interpretations patents.copim.ac.uk
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The whole dataset containing more than 370,000 data points will be available as a fully searchable database within the book - the project examines how texts and books relate to the archive, & how digital tools complicate this relationship #ScalingSmall #OABooks

We end the session with a pre-call for experimental book pilot projects that will be part of the Open Book Futures project, following on from @COPIMproject in from 1 May 2023 to 30 April 2026 copim.pubpub.org/pub/pre-call-e…
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@COPIMproject Moving to WP7: Archiving & Preservation of Open Access Monographs - investigating creative & community-focused solutions to support small & scholar-led presses with archiving & preservation solutions for #OABooks such as the Thoth Archiving Network
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@COPIMproject @DrGarethCole begins with WP7 aims:
- Investigating whether OA Monographs are archived, and how?
- Exploring what an OA monograph is
- Examining the leaky #metadata pipeline for #OABooks
- Exploring how we can simplify archiving of OA monographs
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The leaky #metadata pipeline between book publishers, aggregators & preservation platforms - smaller OA publishers do not have a direct relationship with archiving and digital preservation platforms - #metadata can get lost or edited through the pipeline. #ScalingSmall #OABooks

Barnes, Miranda, Bell, Emily, Cole, Gareth, Fry, Jenny, Gatti, Rupert, & Stone, Graham. (2022). WP7 Scoping Report on Archiving and Preserving OA Monographs (1.0). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
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Challenges to #OABooks archiving:
- staffing resources
- #metadata loss
- accessibility of archiving options
- the need for an Archiving Network for smaller #OABooks publishers & scholar-led presses
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Can Institutional Repositories be part of the solution for archiving & digital preservation for #OABooks ?
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@IanCooke13 describes digital legal deposit @britishlibrary (& 5 other legal deposit libraries); long-term preservation & inclusivity of collecting publishing output so that contributions to the scholarly record are not lost #EverythingForever
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This includes experimental publishing outputs, and outputs from publishers who don't think that they are publishers! #ScalingSmall

Digital Legal Deposit has to be scalable & standardised; it requires infrastructure & #metadata. - Access & Discovery are part of the purpose of Preservation #ScalingSmall

In Digital Preservation there are questions of who 'needs' to access what is preserved as well as ensuring that smaller presses & publishers are not left behind due to lack of access to archiving services & technology #ScalingSmall

Regulatory systems for legal deposit have to be aligned to a variety of publishing processes and systems including #OpenAccess #ScalingSmall

@WilliamKilbride of the Digital Preservation Coalition (@dpc_chat) a digital preservation community which provides an effective platform for meaningful and sustained professional exchange. Set up by knowledge institutions #libraries #archives #museums
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@WilliamKilbride @dpc_chat 20 years in, digital preservation seems to be getting harder not easier despite tech developments. This is due to increase in digital content with no natural archival home - a growing list of digitally endangered species including e-journals and e-books! #ScalingSmall

@dpc_chat advocates for preservation to be the remit of those involved in the creation of digital content rather than leaving it to memory institutions - early intervention makes a difference; if you leave it to libraries & archives it is already too late! #ScalingSmall

@dpc_chat Any agency that offers products with a lifecycle that is longer than the lifecycle of its infrastructure needs to have a digital preservation strategy - we can learn lessons from @COPIMproject & #ScalingSmall to develop good practice guidance for presses, librarians, & academics

@dpc_chat @COPIMproject Nicola Dowson of @ukcorr presents the repositories perspective - not all repositories have digital preservation embedded within them, or digital preservation policies. Transfer of #metadata is crucial; mapping between different platforms can cause challenges
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@dpc_chat @COPIMproject @ukcorr Institutional Repository managers can spend a lot of time curating #metadata to ensure it is not lost during ingest or export - but not all repositories have technical staff to streamline processes #ScalingSmall

@dpc_chat @COPIMproject @ukcorr Universities often have more than 1 repository &the are many commercial products in use across the UK - Universities tend to use their repositories for content created by authors associated with their institution, so it is a challenge to change this mindset #ScalingSmall

@dpc_chat @COPIMproject @ukcorr Paul Stokes (@PuckOfPooksHill) of @Jisc
"Deposit in a repository is not digital preservation"
"We're doomed! - There's too much stuff, not enough space, and not enough resources (people & money)"
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We need a viable, funded ecosystem for all types of publishing -- too little too late is still better than nothing! #ScalingSmall

@Mirandab_OA details how @lborouniversity has been working with @COPIMproject to develop a toolkit & practical guidance for small #OABooks publishers regarding #digitalpreservation - covers Good, Better, Best approaches as options so everyone can start somewhere #ScalingSmall

@Mirandab_OA @lborouniversity @COPIMproject Guidance covers #fileformats, #metadata standards & schema, existing #preservation options, with the overarching message that there isn’t a single solution which will be suitable or useful for all publishers. #ScalingSmall

@Mirandab_OA @lborouniversity @COPIMproject @Thoth_metadata Archiving Network is a community-focused solution to the problem of the “long tail” of small & scholar-led open monograph presses that are often left behind in #digitalpreservation conversations #ScalingSmall

@Mirandab_OA @lborouniversity @COPIMproject @Thoth_metadata @ukcorr members have met in a workshop format to learn more about the Thoth Archiving Network & develop a proof-of-concept for archiving #OABooks in institutional repositories #ScalingSmall

There is proof-of-concept with @figshare @EPrints & the @internetarchive.
See: Barnes, M. (2023). Thoth Archiving Network Workshop, November 2022. doi.org/10.21428/785a6…
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@figshare @EPrints @internetarchive Aim is to work together with @COPIMproject & @Thoth_metadata #OpenInfrastructure to simplify the process of digital archiving & preservation (ie a "simple end to archive" button) plus alignment with Thoth's dissemination features to support discovery & access #ScalingSmall

@figshare @EPrints @internetarchive @COPIMproject @Thoth_metadata WP7 will continue via Open Book Futures
- Grow Thoth Archiving Network; onboard more institutional repositories (UK, USA & globally)
- Collaborate with national libraries; create informed archiving & preservation network & examine workflow requirements for #oabooks
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@figshare @EPrints @internetarchive @COPIMproject @Thoth_metadata - Scoping PhD theses archiving/preservation practices (where many scholarly monographs begin)
- Publish OERs, training materials for authors, publishers & libraries as well as toolkit & software for small publishers
- Address link-rot challenge & PDF/A standard
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@figshare @EPrints @internetarchive @COPIMproject @Thoth_metadata @rupertgatti "The challenge is to create national & international policies & an interconnected network of archiving & digital preservation activities rather each institution or organisation creating its own silo"
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@figshare @EPrints @internetarchive @COPIMproject @Thoth_metadata @rupertgatti @JudithFathallah wraps up #ScalingSmall conference by summarising the common aims & needs of all stakeholders involved in #OABooks & the @COPIMproject - from authors & academics to publishers & presses, & from librarians & archivists to technology & infrastructure developers

@figshare @EPrints @internetarchive @COPIMproject @Thoth_metadata @rupertgatti @JudithFathallah - Education of academics
- Culture change within Universities & what is rewarded by REF
- Publishing as an academic activity
- Equitably sharing the risk of transition to #OpenAccess
- Sustainability (human, technology, ecology)
- Discoverability (#metadata)
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"Perfect is the enemy of good" - we have explore different solutions to these challenges - imperfect solutions are worth exploring #ScalingSmall

@joe_dev "There is so much to do! This conference is as much a kick-off event for #OpenBookFutures as it is a concluding event for @COPIMproject !" #ScalingSmall

@joe_dev @COPIMproject "We desire interoperability but we are mindful of not falling into a trap of building a standardised wonderland where there is no messiness; often the messiness is an indicator of interesting & important local needs & concerns - we need to embrace this diversity" #ScalingSmall

@joe_dev @COPIMproject "Collaboration is messy! But that's not necessarily a bad thing." - Embrace messiness! openreflections.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/emb… #ScalingSmall

@joe_dev @COPIMproject So much to take in from each of @COPIMproject's Work Packages; personally very interested to hear more about #OpenBookFutures as it builds & develops, especially how libraries can be involved
Thanks to all the presenters & panellists; hope my tweets did you justice! #ScalingSmall

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