Pensoft Writing Tool PWT

Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev, Jordan Biserkov, Pavel Stoev

Pro-iBiosphere Workshop, 11-15 February 2013, LeidenViBRANT

One more new tool?Why?

http://pwt.pensoft.net

… and some hundreds millions pages of biodiversity literature in various languages

Estimated ca 1.8 Mio articles per annum, not counting the grey literature!

The solution?

http://pwt.pensoft.net

Upfront mark up!

What is Pensoft Writing Tool?

http://pwt.pensoft.net

PWT is:A collaborative article

authoring and publishing platform for biodiversity science

The missing link!It completes the cycle from writing a manuscript, through its submission,

peer-review and editing, to publication and dissemination.

And all this within a single online collaborative platform!

It provides:- templates for different kinds of

biodiversity articles - links to external resources

- various options for data publishing

The mark up is template-based and done by the author(s) during the writing process!

Authors know best the specifics of their texts and data

The upfront markup will be done at no additional effort for them!

The PWT will serve as a gateway for the Biodiversity Data Journal

Authors and Contributors

Manuscript ready to submit

Peer-review and publishing

PENSOFT JOURNAL SYSTEM (PJS 2.0)

COMMUNITY , OPEN, PUBLIC PEER-REVIEW

PWT

MANUSCRIPT PUBLISHED(XML TEXT + DATA)

Authors, Reviewers, Editors, Mentors, Copyeditors

XML submission

Revisions online

ARTICLESOccurr-

ence dataTaxon namesTaxon treatments

Plazi Wiki COL

Biblio-graphies

Article templates

Classifications

Add author

Taxon treatment preview

Construction of key

Manuscript preview

PWTThe candidate for authoring

and publishing of online Floras and Faunas?

10 good reasons for that

1.Publishing of single taxon

treatments and nomenclatural acts

NO need to wait to complete a revision

2.Assembling treatments into

regional Floras/Faunas

3.Online collaboration between

authors, editors, reviewers, publisher at all stages

Track changes and Comments tools

Revision history and comparison of versions

4.Manuscripts are automatically formatted during the writing

process

Avoids layout stage, decreases costs and efforts!

5.Biological Codes and

DawrinCore compliant

6.Automated import of

treatments from Scratchpads and author’s own databases

7.Various modes of publishing

data and multimedia

8.No installation!

Just register and go!

Browser-independent!

9.Marked up text and data re-

used for new projects

10.NO Author Guidelines!

The tool guides you!

PWT is free to use!

PWT + Pensoft Journal System (PJS)+Pensoft Markup Tool (PMT)

+ Pensoft Dissemination Tool (PDT)will provide publishing

environment for virtually all elements of he future Biodiversity

Knowledge System

Courtesy Rod Page, http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/01/megascience-platforms-for-biodiversity.html

Prototypes

uBio.org

iTaxon (courtesy Rod Page)

BioLib.cz

Plazi.org (courtesy Donat Agosti)

Pensoft Taxon Profile (PTP)

Thank you for your attention

and…

welcome to PWT!

http://pwt.pensoft.net

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