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Aperta is a web application platform for workflows to evaluate and review scientific outputs, especially papers. It is meant to handle the complete lifecycle of a paper from submission to the peer review cycle to shipping the manuscript off to production. It was built at PLOS as part of a plan to reenvision the article review process. While PLOS is not planning to use the system in production in the near term, it is being open sourced in the hope that it will prove useful to others.
The Aperta platform is built a number of components:
- a flexible card configuration system that allows you to construct forms to gather required and optional data from users
- a roles and permissions system for customized user roles and their associated permissions to perform various actions in the system, including read and write access to the cards defined above
- a liquid templates based templating system for building customized emails and card content
- an event based action system for triggering automatic actions when events occur in the system
Aperta is built on the following technologies:
- Ruby on Rails
- Ember.js
- Postgresql
- Pusher (or slanger)
- Sidekiq
- Redis
Aperta is documented in this github wiki.
Questions about Aperta can be asked in the issue tracker.
Please see Contributing.
You can download releases here.
The Aperta project is run by PLOS and PLOS employees will - at the moment - make all final decisions regarding changes to the Aperta codebase.
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