The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced the launch of the Community for Academic Reviewing, Publishing and Editorial Technology (CARPET) project. The project aims to develop an electronic platform where tools and services for electronic publishing can be systematically and clearly represented.
Supported by DFG over the next two years, the project is a collaboration between the DFG, the Berlin Humboldt-University, the Max Planck Digital Library and the Goettingen State and University Library. It is expected to allow a more efficient use of existing tools and foster coordinated developments avoiding redundancies.
A DFG survey and a subsequent workshop entitled 'Development of Generic Publication Tools' are the initial points for the project. Given the current multitude of publication tools, the survey revealed an urgent need for presenting existing approaches on an Internet-based platform. The CARPET project will create such an openly accessible platform step by step. As a start, a catalogue of existing tools will be generated. These will be expanded to an information platform and eventually be developed to a collaboration platform, a forum to support users and developers alike.
The aim of the project is to establish the platform permanently as a virtual competence centre to make the results of developments in the area of e-publishing available in the long term and to effectively support their use and future developments. The platform is open to to the presentation of international developed publication tools provided that they can be reused freely.
The project partners will contribute their experience and expertise of many years in the field of developing integrated publishing and research environments as well as the practical use of publication tools to the CARPET project.
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