PKP held a software development news update via webinar on Monday, December 16th, 2024. The recording is now available. This post also contains software release information and public roadmap.
PKP Development Associate Director, Alec Smecher, and UX / UI Designer, Devika Goel, share updates with user communities on PKP software developments.
These updates will be of interest to PKP’s Strategic Partners, Development Partners, Financial Contributors, and Community Contributors, as well as the wider community interested in, or using, PKP’s free and open software for independent scholarly publishing.
Topics
Open Journal Systems (OJS) / Open Monograph Press (OMP) / Open Preprint Systems (OPS) version 3.5.0 preview and release timeline
- Typesetting workflow
- Tasks and Discussions
Short experimental demonstrations
- Receiving emails in OJS
- Breaking the upload / download pattern with WebDAV
- Pre-filling metadata automatically with Grobid
Webinar Recording
Chapters
- 00:00 Opening
- 00:08 Thank you to the Development Team
- 00:46 Roadmap Update
- 07:07 PKP 3.6 and Open Research Europe (ORE)
- 12:32 Typesetting Workflows
- 24:16 Production and OSS ORE
- 26:29 UX & UI
- 33:38 Tasks and Discussions
- 52:39 Extracting Metadata with Grobid
- 57:53 Upcoming Presentations
- 58:31 Thanks and Questions
PKP Software Development
PKP is a community-governed project that has the interests of the scholarly publishing community and the greater public good in mind.
The PKP community software development of Open Journal Systems (OJS; also used for conference proceedings), Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Preprint Systems (OPS), is based on the needs of those using the software — the needs of interconnected communities that have expressed the importance of fair and sustainable access to research, and the importance of open infrastructure as a vehicle to making sure that long-term solutions are in place (and remain in place).
OJS, OMP, and OPS versions 3.4.0-8 and 3.3.0-20 LTS packages were released on November 29, 2024. The 3.3.0-20 LTS package will be supported until January 1, 2026.
- Check OJS releases
- Check OMP releases
- Check OPS releases
- Check the 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 (ORE) public roadmap
Please consider joining the PKP Community Forum for regular release updates and to ask questions or offer feedback.
🎉 PKP thrives on community involvement. Thanks to our incredible community of translation, code, testing, documentation, and financial contributors, who make these releases possible!
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