Presentation of the OJS AmeliCA Community: Users and Developers
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Okay. Thank you for your time. We are here to share our experience, especially in creating
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virtual communities, especially in developing users of OGS. We will present the community
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of users and developers of OGS in Amelie, Amélica. To start, I will say Amélica is an initiative by UNESCO and Amélica with the objective to increase the communication infrastructure
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of academic publishing in Open Science. It's an initiative to increase the capacities to publish and to interchange information around the world, but especially to independent
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projects, Amélica works. We will talk about one, it's the OGS community of users and
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developers. This community is open. We have a lot of time to discuss how we can do the community works. In the imagination, the communities always work perfectly, but in the real world,
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especially the virtual communities don't work well. It's a big deal because we need to know what we do to increase the communication or what we do to obtain the participation,
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obtain more development, etc. Like the last presentation, they say in a lot of journals
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they need to outsource a lot of services, but one problem of this is in the universities the people don't share. They have a lot of developed capacities, for example in one
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university, and they can develop a lot of things, but they don't share. In the real world, they don't share. Another university, the public university, has a lot of capacities of hosting hardware in Latin America, I suppose, but they don't share security things,
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tips, knowledge, anything. That is the real problem. It doesn't exist to do real communities,
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and we are working with this object to be sharing real. I hope we can do it, but we are working on that. We create this community with three specific objectives.
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The first is to give to editors the knowledge, to share with them knowledge about how you
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can use all the OES, all the options, all the processes. The second is how you can obtain an advantage about the capacities. For example, how you can obtain better statistics, better information, more visibility, how you can develop new components to any kind
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of, for example, to convert XML to audio, or to obtain other things in any way.
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We have started to have success. In this moment, we have only 35 users, but the important
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thing is these users are active users in the most of them. We have users of different countries, from Colombia, Mexico, these are two countries more active, Argentina and
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other countries. And we are trying to involve different kinds of users, I mean editors, authors, developers to support. If you see, we have general managers, but we have editors,
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we have reviewers, tech support, and we are trying to support more conversation between different roles, and trying to support conversation between people in different
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institutions. And we are always saying, okay, let's share something, not only words or not only concepts, share something, I don't know, hosting or code or something.
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This is the interface. The first thing we do is to install one different interface. We think the traditional forms are not functional to communities, because you don't
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have all the specific things, and you cannot discuss specific things. In this community, we have a social network, people can publish any kind of content, and they can converse
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about things. In this community, we are obtaining more interaction, especially in the subject of technical support. A lot of people came to the community and asked
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any kind of support, and the people started to answer and to help. Another thing is,
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if you see, the people really discuss, and we have different topics. We are talking about implementation, installation, customizations, digital conservation, metrics, and we have
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a special group of XML. We are trying to increase the abilities to process XML, to
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explore XML, and to obtain more information about using, for example, data meaning or this kind of things. Another thing is, in this community, if you want to subscribe
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and use, all the content is free, all the tips and any kind of code in the community is free. Everything is free. And we have a lot of content in video. Normally, we do
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three or four webinars a month in any kind of things around OGS, and all these totally free with CC by license. You can access, you can see, and we also start collaborating
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different returns and different developers on sharing their knowledge. We think it's a good start. Obviously, we have our own page in Facebook, but our critical focus
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is in the community and in our own platform. This is only two or three novels, but in
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this year, we work with different webinars in editorial process, for example, in XML, digital preservation, visibility, data management, and data mining. We have
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all the courses in levels. If you are new in OGS, you can find one course, but if you are finding, for example, digital preservation techniques using the standards, the international
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standards, you can find content. And maybe if you visit us and subscribe, maybe in December 2020, you can see the new calendar of content, courses, and such.
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Another thing important in this way is we are looking to increase the content, but we are hoping to share all the platforms. If you are in your country, you are looking
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to create some community or something, we can give you the code, the tools, all the platforms for use totally free with a GPL license. We are looking to share all the
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resources. If you meet, we can share with you not only the content, not only the access to the community, we can share with you all the platforms, all the code, all
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the tools without problem. In this moment, we are looking for help. We need experience or we need knowledge or we need participants, developers. In these lines, we are talking
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and we are working in technical things. We are working obviously with PQP and maybe in the next month or next two months, the community will work automatically with PQP forms to share the contents from community to PQP, from PQP to community,
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etc. But we are looking to work together with you or with anything, or with anybody in this experience. Obviously, user experience is a subject important, but especially
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in social interactions, interactions between readers and readers, or readers and authors
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and resource, we need to do the OGS more interactive. We are working in digital preservation to really work with the standards in home. If you have one digital preservation software
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in home, you need a tool to interact with your software and with OGS. It does not depend, for example, your documents from one standard organization and you don't
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know one international organization, you need one copy of one preservation in home. It's important. We are looking to increase the capacity of the OGS in all the topics
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related with analytics. Especially with digital preservation, we have a component that works with Arithmetica. Arithmetica is an open source software to preserve, but we need
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especially if somebody says, okay, we need testers. Okay, thank you. And we are looking
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to the power of development. But in another thing, we are looking to especially if you
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know about XML, we are looking to increase the capacities of the OGS to explore better the XML. To obtain or to promote the interaction between the full text and with another systems.
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For example, if you find one keyboard, you can start a new version, but not in
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one open system or maybe in one repository. It is to give to the readers more power when they are reading the full text. But in addition to this, if you know about
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XML, we are creating a model to propose a wide addition to OGS. Maybe not automatic but to do easier the translation of the text into audio. But we need help because
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we have always a lot of work and we don't have time. Especially in XML, we are looking
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to do in these two ways. Data mining and XML 2.0. All of you have noticed. Please, your notes, please. And obviously we have a new project. We are looking to knowledge
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to teach courses. Obviously webinars in these areas. If you want to share your knowledge, you can. And we are looking to developers especially in these three areas. Open data
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mining and accessibility. We are hoping to work together with them. Finally, we have one more big goal. This is obviously in the natural process of OGS.
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That all works well. Outsource articles, OGS, and readers. But we are thinking we
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need to create the necessary tools to facilitate to outsource and to give the research data that will be necessary in some moments. This data will need to be fair and all this
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can be collected by OGS and OGS will need to interact with data repositories. This is a new union for developers to create standards, workflows prepared and to create
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capabilities of interoperability. This is a very exciting project. If you want, we
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can work together. We don't have any problems. Finally, you can participate in any way. Especially if you want, you can coordinate one group or only the participants, especially
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if you want to be instructed in your webinars or a developer. You can participate with
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those in any webinar. This is my email. I'm always checking online and we can work
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together. Finally, I will say this community is an open community. It works inside a community, but it's an open community. We maintain this community with all the results,
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primarily results. We are a little company, but we are important to the community. Thank you.