Project Goals DocMaps represents the editorial processes used to create journal articles, preprints, peer reviews, and other documents in a machine-readable, extensible, interoperable format. This community-driven framework aims to meet three key requirements for representations of editorial processes in a healthy publishing ecosystem:
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Extensibility: the framework should be capable of representing a wide range of editorial process events, ranging from a simple assertion that a review occurred to a complete history of editorial comments on a document to a standalone review submitted by an independent reviewer
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Machine-readability: the framework should be represented in a format (e.g. JSON-LD) that can be interpreted computationally and translated into visual representations.
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Discoverability: the framework should be publishable such that events are queryable and discoverable via a variety of well-supported mechanisms.
