**T4.1: Data privacy and multilingualism in journal platforms [Lead: TIB; Participants: TSV][M01-M36**]
- Task conducts *requirement analysis* regarding both GDPR and multilingualism features for journal management software.
- https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/3022
**GDPR compliant *user and data* management will be implemented to OJS based on the results.**
- Discovered shortcomings of multilingual support will be addressed and solved in OJS to ensure seamless processing of multilingual content and interoperability and synchronisation with external systems.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ug5eviuUtpeQ0P2he7TfbSU5mMGzLCliZqdTN-wPOjo/edit?usp=sharing

**T4.2: Enhancing hosting platform interoperability and complementarity between tools [Lead: AMU, TIB][M01-M24]**

- addresses the need to improve interoperability between publication hosting platforms. This task will analyse and document the potential interfaces and common standards in the publishing software workflows.
- This analysis will form the basis for implementing potential functional enhancements.
- As concrete implementations, both an OJS OAI-PMH interface extension for JATS-XML and a JATS-XML import module in Lodel are envisioned as models for similar systems.

**T4.3: Metadata quality and extensibility [Lead:TSV; Participants: TIB, UGOE][M01-M36]**

- Task will improve metadata quality in diamond journals by creating automated metadata checks to find common problems in article records.
- To enable easier enrichment of metadata, OJS will be extended to support data citations and interaction with different types of controlled vocabularies and taxonomies like CRediT.
- Also integration with widely used persistent identifiers, like ORCID and ROR, will be improved.

**T4.4: Simplification of Installation and Update procedures [Lead:UGOE; Participants: SRCE, UC, MU, UNIZD, IBL PAN, FHH, AMU][M01-M36]**

To facilitate an initial installation of a current OJS version or performing major reconfigurations (e.g. plug-ins, themes) in an institutional IT environment, a simplified installation is offered, based on a requirement survey. This takes into account the independence of the given infrastructure and creates a checklist with standard steps. This should enable teams with less specialised expertise in OJS to initiate a state-of-the-art deployment and, if necessary, a migration process. Online workshops in the form of "Meet the Experts" will demonstrate typical migration processes. A similar simplified installation procedure will be performed for Lodel.