MuDoc FAQ

What does MuDoc do?

• allow content (assets) and its associated metadata and keywords to be submitted, peer reviewed, and ultimately incorporated into a digital repository, or rejected
• allow for searching by metadata or keywords, and retrieval of content
• enforce digital rights
• enable annotation of stored information
• allow a federation of digital repositories to act coherently as a single repository

What are keywords?

• Keywords are named concepts, arranged in a non-hierarchical inclusion relation ('directed acyclic graph'), which are used for submission, search, and role assignments

What is metadata?

Metadata is information attached to content, "data about (content) data". An example of metadata is the title of a submission.

What are roles?

Possible roles are "editor" and "reviewer". Each keyword may have one or more editors or reviewers associated.

• Editors guide a review process and make a final decision
• Reviewers provide feedback to editors upon request
• Submissions are guided to the most appropriate editor, who then selects the most appropriate reviewers from a list. "Appropriateness" is calculated wholly (for editors) or partly (for reviewers) by the submission's keyword(s).