Joss: Recent ships

[arfon]

I thought it might be good for @openjournals/dev start documenting updates/improvements that have been made recently to JOSS/Whedon etc. in a semi-regular fashion so here's a summary of what's happened recently:

Better support for BibTeX in JOSS & JOSE UI: There's now a couple of links on the JOSS and JOSE paper view which allows for copying of the citation string (the thing shown in the UI) or a BibTeX entry.

Sortable table on editor dashboard: It's now possible to sort the list of editors by the number of assignments they have on the dashboard.

EiC information now shown on pre-review issue: The pre-review issue now shows which EiC opened up this issue on GitHub https://github.com/openjournals/joss/pull/669

Whedon support for withdrawing and rejecting papers: Papers can now be rejected and withdrawn by Whedon https://github.com/openjournals/joss/pull/662 https://github.com/openjournals/joss/pull/671 https://github.com/openjournals/whedon-api/pull/81 https://github.com/openjournals/whedon-api/pull/79

Better errors in Whedon paper preview service: Whedon now reports errors properly in the preview service https://github.com/openjournals/whedon-api/pull/80

Email invites for authors: It's now possible to invite editors to edit a paper, with an automated email sent to them https://github.com/openjournals/joss/pull/673 https://github.com/openjournals/whedon-api/pull/82

Repository statistics now reported in pre-review issue: In order to help editors make decisions about whether submissions are in scope, Whedon now reports some summary statistics in the pre-review thread about the repository https://github.com/openjournals/whedon-api/pull/77

/ cc @openjournals/jose-editors @openjournals/joss-editors

[labarba]

https://twitter.com/LorenaABarba/status/1225814899969941505?s=20

[danielskatz]

Re the first upgrade, which is great, a future next step would be to have a pulldown where the citation could be exported in a variety of formats - I think @mfenner knows how to do this...

[arfon]

I think @mfenner knows how to do this...

Ooo yeah. That would be great. @mfenner any suggestions how to best accomplish this? The views are built with Ruby/Rails so some kind of gem would be great. Otherwise a JavaScript thing could work too.

[mfenner]

The easiest way to do this is to use DOI content negotiation to get back the formatted citation, works in any language :). What we have done in DataCite Search and Crossref Metadata Search (originally same source code at https://github.com/crosscite/doi-metadata-search) is hardwire some common styles in a Javascript popup window. You could of course do something similar in a Ruby view.

Crossref and DataCite currently run a separate backend service for citation formatting, but the DataCite service (source code at https://github.com/crosscite/content-negotiation) supports Crossref DOIs, and is arguably better maintained.

DataCite content negotiation supports providing the content type via header or via path:

curl -LH "Accept: "text/x-bibliography; style=ieee" https://data.crosscite.org/10.21105/joss.02004

or

https://data.crosscite.org/text/x-bibliography/10.21105/joss.02004?style=ieee

Our content negotiation of course also supports bibtex:

https://data.crosscite.org/application/x-bibtex/10.21105/joss.02004

[mfenner]

For a tighter integration you could also use the bolognese gem (which powers our content-negotiation and citation formatting), but that is probably overkill. https://github.com/datacite/bolognese

[labarba]

a future next step would be to...

The next step is to write out a roadmap, and place feature ideas and requests in some form of priority list. Otherwise important dev work that is harder to complete gets eternally delayed, trumped by shiny nice-to-haves that are easy to do.

[arfon]

The next step is to write out a roadmap, and place feature ideas and requests in some form of priority list. Otherwise important dev work that is harder to complete gets eternally delayed, trumped by shiny nice-to-haves that are easy to do.

@labarba: https://github.com/openjournals/joss/pull/684