White paper overview

Lecture Minutes

A persistent, citable publishing platform for academic lectures

Academic publishing Lecture-to-article pipeline DOI/ISSN/ORCID-aware

I. Rationale

Lecture Minutes is designed to turn recorded lectures (audio/video) into structured, citable scholarly outputs. The system supports an end-to-end workflow—from upload and transcription through manuscript conversion, author review, publication, and post-publication analytics—so teaching outputs can become durable items suitable for citation and CV listing.

II. What it does

  • Ingest: upload lecture recordings and capture structured metadata (course, date, author).
  • Transcribe: generate a transcript via an ASR provider, with status tracking.
  • Convert: transform transcripts into a clean “lecture manuscript” layout (sections, figures, references).
  • Review: provide an author revision gate before anything becomes public.
  • Publish: serve stable landing pages for versions and (optionally) persistent identifiers.
  • Measure: provide analytics dashboards for usage and operational metrics.

III. Identifier strategy

The platform is engineered to support persistent scholarly identity and referencing: item-level identifiers (e.g., DOI), venue-level serial identity (e.g., ISSN for a continuing series), and contributor identity (e.g., ORCID). Operationally, this requires stable landing pages, reliable metadata, and transparent versioning.

Note on permanence

Persistent identifiers are effective only when metadata and landing pages are maintained over time. Lecture Minutes therefore treats publication state, version history, and governance as first-class concerns.

IV. Current build scope

The build sequence follows a publish-first pipeline: foundation and rendering, authentication and verified email gating, lecture upload, transcription, manuscript conversion, submission + author review, preprint mode, optional peer review, and analytics + deployment hardening.

V. References

  1. Crossref, “Content Registration.” https://www.crossref.org/services/content-registration/
  2. DataCite, “Best Practices for DOI Registration.” https://support.datacite.org/docs/best-practices-for-datacite-members
  3. ISSN International Centre, “What is an ISSN?” https://www.issn.org/understanding-the-issn/what-is-an-issn/
  4. ORCID, “ORCID and Persistent Identifiers.” https://info.orcid.org/documentation/integration-guide/orcid-and-persistent-identifiers/

These links are provided for context on DOI/ISSN/ORCID infrastructure; the platform’s implementation details may differ by registrar and policy.