Sustainable Scholarly Publishing: Insights from DCPapers

Abstract

This paper examines the technological evolution and reimplementation of DCPapers, the open access publication platform for the Dublin Core Conference proceedings. Over two decades, DCPapers has served as the primary repository for metadata research and practice, publishing nearly twenty volumes that span theoretical frameworks from common purpose to post-structural approaches. While the platform has successfully facilitated knowledge dissemination through open access publication, the rapid advancement of web technologies and emerging security challenges have necessitated a comprehensive redesign. We present a systematic analysis of the platform's transformation, detailing the migration from a traditional content management system to a modern static publishing architecture. Our findings illuminate key challenges in maintaining long-term digital scholarly repositories and offer insights into the implementation of contemporary web technologies in academic publishing platforms. This work contributes to the broader discourse on sustainable open access publication systems and provides a practical framework for similar digital transformation initiatives in scholarly communication infrastructure.