Ticket #38 (closed clarification: fixed)

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Author Functionality

Reported by: amit Assigned to: chris
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Component: feature-clarification Version:
Keywords: author functionality Cc: amit
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Description

In PLoS One Feature Overview?, there is a mention of Author Functionality in a few places associated with threads and annotations. We do need to look at this a little more in detail, but need to know if this is a must for October. Reason is that the concept of Author is not a standalone feature and needs to be integrated or at least thought through in the construct of a Management System. Please do not close this ticket, and just add a comment as this needs to be discussed.

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05/02/06 10:38:14 changed by rich

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05/10/06 16:32:54 changed by rich

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Annotations by author must be in the launch of PLoS ONE. Since the papers will have no publication review, this will be the only way that an author can correct mistakes in a paper after it has been published will be by annotation. So annotations by the author of the paper should be marked appropriately so the reader knows that it is a correction to the paper.

Unsure if the same needs to apply to discussion threads. I will assign to Chris for comment.

05/11/06 06:48:17 changed by chris

Yes, Rich is right. The role of author isn't standalone and does depend on context but it is very important. An author's comments about her/his own papers have a very different status to those of other people. Also an Author's Annotation of a paper is the eqivalent of a correction or revision while that of anyone else is a comment or suggestion and so of lesser importance. There are some other non-standalone roles that it would be good to have operational (e.g. (handling) editor, referee, co-author) but author is the one that is crucially important.

05/11/06 06:48:40 changed by chris

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05/22/06 11:31:21 changed by amit

The challenge here is to tie a locally registered user to being the author of a specific paper and who would be responsible for carrying out the check. One potential solution here is that we provide an administrative functionality where a PLoS admin can add an RDF triple to a paper binding a locally registered user as being the author of the paper. Then when an application retrieves an article it also knows the local identity of the author and if any such annotation exists, it can display them with the appropriate colour syntax. Chris, are you okay with this idea?

06/19/06 04:24:38 changed by chris

I can't see a problem with this. I can't see any way that the authors ship of a paper can be reliably identified from the XML as uploaded to TOPAZ. This is only going to be possible once a system of unique identifier of scientists exists. For the time being assigning Authorship by an RDF triple looks like the only way to acheive this. When we have more control over the Journal Management System as well then identities in both systems can be linked. Basically this seems to be a workeable solution.

07/13/06 17:49:14 changed by amit

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Great. That is what we will do for launch. Closing ticket.

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